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Article: For sale: 102-year-old car, yours for pounds 22,000; MOTORING: Pioneering Brum motor cost pounds 225 in 1905... and ended up in a barn.(Features)
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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Byline: By Mail Reporter
IT WAS one of the first cars made in Birmingham - but was dumped in a Sussex barn some time after the original owner paid just pounds 225 for it.
But now this 10-12hp Tonnea is expected to fetch up to pounds 22,000 at a north London auction.
The rare swing-seat vehicle was built in 1905 by the Alldays & Onions Pneumatic Engineering Company at its Matchless Works, in Fallows Road, Sparkbrook.
It is such a rare car that only one other model from that year is known to exist.
The swing seat is an unusual feature: Passengers in Edwardian England would have gained access to the rear by swinging the front ...