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More information of the Daimler Airflow by Windovers required.

Car histories: owners, dates, etc. restorations, events visited, holidays, stories about the car, etc. plus statistics like numbers and models produced.
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Barrie
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More information of the Daimler Airflow by Windovers required.

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After a lifetime of interest in the marque I've never seen this bold effort by Windovers.
Hers a link.
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A lovely car but never heard any recent history. We are so lucky to have Brian Smith and Chris Clark write
such wonderful and comprehensive histories of our cars.

I feel sure the Windover must be in Daimler Days. I look forward to seeing the Joseph Mackle car that lives with George Stapley's old Light Straight Eight. Such a shame they are not seen at rallies.

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More pictures I've found of the Windover's Airflow
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I'm not sure what this is - maybe a trafficator?
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Extraordinary radiator grill!
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Reminds me of Munch
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Does anyone know what chassis its on?

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Would be interesting to hear when it was last known and if it survived. Coachbuilt examples like that could have travelled anywhere across the globe.

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I could easily imagine that when the chrome wore out the cost and complication of rechrhroming the radiator grill caused the car's demise.
I can't get to any of my Daimler books at the moment but as far as I can remember the car has been hitherto unreported. Is this the case?
Has anyone on the forum seen it before?

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It is interesting that the body of this car is very similar to that of the 1937 E18 with a body by the Mayfair Carriage Company of Hendon, which is published in Chris Clark's Lanchester Legacy, Vol 2, p102. I know of no connection between Mayfair and Windover apart from the fact that both were based in North London.

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