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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
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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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
passenger seat outwards.
If the car does sell for pounds 22,000 at the Bonhams auction at ...