Finney Isles & Company Limited Autocarrier, Brisbane
Creator: Unidentified
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Description: Worker from Finney Isles & Co. Ltd. driving an Autocarrier motor tricycle. Finney's, a large department store in Queen Street, Brisbane, was later taken over by David Jones. The Autocarrier, produced from 1904, was popular with delivery boys, being robust and simple to drive. It was powered by a 648 cc. single cylinder, air cooled engine. The autocarrier was sold by the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd, which imported the first auto-carrier into Qld in 1911.
The Autocarrier was the start of a long history for the English manufacturer, Autocars & Accessories Ltd., which went on to produce one of the fastest sports cars of the 1960s. In 1910 an odd looking passenger version of the Autocarrier was introduced, called the AC (from Auto Carrier) Sociable. The Autocarrier's delivery box was replaced with a buggy-like body where the driver and passenger sat side by side.
From 1913 the company produced more conventional cars and in 1922 changed it's name to AC Cars and introduced an inline six-cylinder engine with an overhead camshaft. This engine powered increasingly fast AC sports cars until 1963. In 1962 American racing driver Carroll Shelby fitted a Ford V8 engine into a modified AC Ace sports car, to produce the blisteringly fast Shelby Cobra. With engines up to 7 litres and 500 horsepower, the light two seater Cobra could match the performance of any sports car of the time and and once again an AC was the 'dream vehicle' for many delivery boys.
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Finney Isles & Company Limited Autocarrier, Brisbane
Creator: Unidentified
Location: Brisbane, Queensland
Description: Worker from Finney Isles & Co. Ltd. driving an Autocarrier motor tricycle. Finney's, a large department store in Queen Street, Brisbane, was later taken over by David Jones. The Autocarrier, produced from 1904, was popular with delivery boys, being robust and simple to drive. It was powered by a 648 cc. single cylinder, air cooled engine. The autocarrier was sold by the Canada Cycle and Motor Agency (Qld) Ltd, which imported the first auto-carrier into Qld in 1911.
The Autocarrier was the start of a long history for the English manufacturer, Autocars & Accessories Ltd., which went on to produce one of the fastest sports cars of the 1960s. In 1910 an odd looking passenger version of the Autocarrier was introduced, called the AC (from Auto Carrier) Sociable. The Autocarrier's delivery box was replaced with a buggy-like body where the driver and passenger sat side by side.
From 1913 the company produced more conventional cars and in 1922 changed it's name to AC Cars and introduced an inline six-cylinder engine with an overhead camshaft. This engine powered increasingly fast AC sports cars until 1963. In 1962 American racing driver Carroll Shelby fitted a Ford V8 engine into a modified AC Ace sports car, to produce the blisteringly fast Shelby Cobra. With engines up to 7 litres and 500 horsepower, the light two seater Cobra could match the performance of any sports car of the time and and once again an AC was the 'dream vehicle' for many delivery boys.
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/59425
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.