Advertising Last completed movie pages 1953 Singer Roadster [4AD]Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
![1953 Singer Roadster [4AD]](/i001408014.jpg)
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Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time
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◊ 2020-07-19 10:45 |
Singer 4AD Roadster, B’ham plate 1953, so Singer publicity? -- Last edit: 2020-07-19 10:46:02 |
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◊ 2020-07-19 11:13 |
maybe.. plate says " Non " ..  |
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◊ 2020-07-19 13:02 |
NON is Birmingham, July 1953. |
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◊ 2020-07-19 13:24 |
Interestingly (to me and me alone probably) I googled Singer SM 1500 for more pictures after seeing the one listed for this film and one of the survivors is NON471, so probably registered (by the factory?) around the same time as this Roadster. |
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◊ 2020-07-19 13:30 |
That bloke must be a Singer freak. There’s a Hunter parked behind the SM1500. |
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◊ 2020-07-19 15:37 |
A pretty little car , shame not a survivor.![[Image: 2020-07-1972.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3808/2020-07-1972.jpg) |
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◊ 2020-07-19 22:52 |
Singer, if not actually on the skids at this time, was getting close to perdition. The takeover into the Rootes Group at the end of 1955 signalled another of those moves of logic that the industry needed in greater abundance. It's easy to look back and say things, but the Singer company had pretty well shot its bolt, the cars on offer being too expensive and too inadequate to sell for the asking prices needed. The "Minxised" Gazelle after the replacement of the elderly Singer OHC engine by a version of the Rootes pushrod ohv four cylinder unit was a far more saleable car then the Hunter it replaced. When you compare the roadster above with the MG TF Midget it doesn't look so different, but when you think of the MGA, which was just around the corner, and that Singer was thinking of offering a half developed plastic bodied thing, the positions look quite different. -- Last edit: 2020-07-20 18:30:19 |
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