Crosley in Ireland info ?

airnwater

Anyone got any information on Crosley in Ireland ?

A guy I know has a 1946 Crosley which was imported from USA when new,
by Brittains ,or Lincoln & Nolan , Dublin.
It was imported to assess the feasability of assembling them in Ireland !
It was later decided to build the Morris Minor instead......
This car was kept by the garage until about 1950 ,when it was registered & sold.
It has only covered approx 5k miles since new ,mainly as a result of an engine problem.

The Crosley had an innovative 4 cylinder engine ,the CoBra ,( derived from
COpper BRAzed ) Its sheet metal engine block was problematic as well as
sounding like a diesel ! By '49 a castiron block was used...

It had mechanical brakes...

The Irish car is believed to have been displayed at a show around 1981 in the RDS , Dublin

Below is a pic of a similar car ,the Irish one is black..

Anyone got any info. on the Irish car ?

carchaeologist

Any idea of what the reg was?

airnwater

It was registered in Dublin ,1950...

carchaeologist

airnwater wrote: »

It was registered in Dublin ,1950...

Probably ****ZJ so i would say,thats what was being issued in 1950 in dublin.

DarenO

carchaeologist wrote: »

Probably ****ZJ so i would say,thats what was being issued in 1950 in dublin.

Don't you mean ZL or ZJ ****, ****ZJ is 1973/4

Regards
Darren

carchaeologist

DarenO wrote: »

Don't you mean ZL or ZJ ****, ****ZJ is 1973/4

Regards
Darren

yes,ZJ****,you got me there!!:D:D

G Luxel

airnwater wrote: »

Anyone got any information on Crosley in Ireland ?

It was imported to assess the feasability of assembling them in Ireland !
It was later decided to build the Morris Minor instead......

At least there was an alternative to assemble, i couldnt see many people
buying this car, it is so ugly......:eek:

carchaeologist

G Luxel wrote: »

At least there was an alternative to assemble, i couldnt see many people
buying this car, it is so ugly......:eek:

yep,not exacty pretty is it,the windscreen looks like its off a splitscreen morris minor,but the side doesnt match at all then...:pac:

Kevin_Herron

This car was up for auction in September '85 in the R.D.S.
It was ran by Templeogue Motors.

Kevin_Herron

Whilst rummaging through some stuff this evening I knocked across an I.V.V.C.C Journal from Summer '82.
In it there was an article written by Richard Warbrutom in response to a letter from Jim Cullen regarding 'missing' cars.

"Crosley Sedan (alias Crosmobile).
Extremely rare in RHD, imported in 1946 approx to evaluate C.K.D assembly of American cars by G.A. Brittain, as you know they built Morris Series E instead.
The Crosley was taken to Cork shortley before the Brittain failure by Bill Swanton (of the bus fleet that C.I.E put off the road) Colour: Black"

So Bill Cullen mioght be able to shed some light on its history or possibly Richard Warbrutom?

MercMad

Would that be Richard Warburton Kev ??

I know a chap of that name involved with the RIAC and he is/was a Motor Vehicle Accessor in the 1990's. Could be the same bloke ?

Kevin_Herron

It could well be. I cant say I know him but it was deffinetly Warbrutom in the journal. Probably a Typo then?

MercMad

Kevin_Herron wrote: »

It could well be. I cant say I know him but it was deffinetly Warbrutom in the journal. Probably a Typo then?

.............I'd say it was a typo since the name Warbrutom doesn't show any listings at all on Google.