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Vehicle make: VOLVO
Date of first registration: November 1996
Year of manufacture: 1996
Cylinder capacity (cc): 2473 cc
A railtour using 1967 London Victoria Line rolling stock. 2nd September 1979.
HSE look away now! This is Ruislip Depot (Central Line).
Federal Motors: Between 1910 and 1959, over 160,000 Federals were assembled.
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The Auto Union 1000 was a compact front-wheel-drive automobile manufactured by Auto Union GmbH between 1958 and 1965.
Undoubtedly in the running for most fantastical, fairy-tale crazy spare-no-expense gorgeous I've-run-out-of-hyphenated-superlatives moving vehicle ever built.
From the Blackhawk Museum description:
The 1924 Hispano-Suiza H6C 'Tulipwood' Torpedo was commissioned by André Dubonnet who, at the age of 26, was an accomplished aviator and racing driver. The Dubonnets had amassed a fortune from the aperitifs and cognacs that continue to bear the family name.
Dubonnet contracted the Nieuport Aviation Company to build a lightweight body suitable for both racing and touring. Nieuport craftsmen formed a frame of wooden ribs measuring up to 3/4-inch thick which were covered with 1/8-inch wooden veneer. Strips of mahogany (earlier thought to be tulipwood) of uneven thickness and length were fastened to the veneer with thousands of brass rivets.
The body was then sealed, sanded and varnished; when fully equipped, the body was to have weighed approximately 160 pounds. The torpedo tail enclosed a 46-gallon gas tank for long distance racing. In 1924 Dubonnet entered the Hispano-Suiza in the Sicilian Targa Florio and he finished sixth; he also finished fifth in the Coppa Florio and first in the over-4.5-liter class.