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1950 Nuffield Oxford Taxi Series III 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2013-05-02 22:29 |
![[Image: 38-19taxia.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/38-19taxia.jpg) ![[Image: 38-19taxib.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/38-19taxib.jpg) ![[Image: 38-19taxid.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/38-19taxid.jpg) Also seen a couple of minutes earlier in separate scene: ![[Image: 36-21taxi.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/36-21taxi.jpg) ![[Image: 36-21taxib.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/36-21taxib.jpg) Can't decipher the script under the window. Any ideas? |
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◊ 2013-05-02 23:11 |
Wolseley Oxford Hire Car six light limousine 1950 to 1955. total production of taxi plus hire car 200, total production of six light variant "a few". -- Last edit: 2013-05-02 23:19:26 |
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◊ 2014-07-08 14:46 |
It has a Taxi sign on the roof, an open luggage area and taxi-meter, taxi not hire car. "The Series III of 1950 had what was, in effect a six light body, although of course the luggage platform had no door and thus no window" An idea only B....something 'Burnham' or similar (although initially similar to the 'Austin' script its not!) -- Last edit: 2014-07-08 14:52:21 |
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◊ 2014-07-08 15:17 |
The pressed steel wheels could possibly have been introduced before the six light body as the earlier, four-light body appears with the pressed steel wheels also. Six-Light Taxi (preserved - could also be the actual movie vehicle so the usual warnings about authenticity)... Link to "www.google.co.uk" In 'Commercial Motor' January 1951... "The first to be introduced was the Oxford cab, designed and manufactured by the Nuffield organization. When introduced in 1946... Powered by a four-cylindered overhead-valve engine of 1,802 c.c., the Oxford has modern features.... The Oxford provides the driver with excellent visibility and protection against inclement weather, and handles in an exemplary fashion. Last October a new (six-light) version was introduced which gave passengers better visibility. -- Last edit: 2014-07-08 15:35:54 |
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◊ 2014-07-09 00:43 |
Renamed as Nuffield Oxford Taxi after discussion at /vehicle.php?id=719464 Bxxx.... script under side door window could be Beardsmore who handled all sales and marketing of Oxford Taxis in return for passing on their government allocated steel quota to Nuffield. Also the jfs comment above about the Hire Car version - from Sedgewick & Gillies?? - is a strange one to integrate with knowledge from other sources, unless it means that the Hire Car version was a parallel to the normal Taxi. One source suggests by 1951, demand for Taxi had almost dried up, so Hire Car launched to fulfill contractual obligations to Beardsmore until 1953 expiry. So merging info from different pots (none of which have full story) the Hire Car may have been uniquely sold as a Wolseley for its about 200 examples (within the full production run of 1,926). All Hire Cars should therefore be Series III six-lights, and there is something solid to explain the perception as Wolseleys as these could have been the only ones offered for public purchase outside the trade. |
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◊ 2016-08-09 10:56 |
I've always gone with with John's 'Wolseley Oxford' as that seemed good enough for Nick Georgano's 'History' (1972). Apparently not on the Database, but an Oxford stars with Coop in a scene outside Victoria station in 'The Wreck of the Mary Deare' (1959). |
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◊ 2019-05-10 11:30 |
^ Now added, the scene outside Victoria station in 'The Wreck of the Mary Deare' (1959). However it appears to have London's Waterloo Station standing in for Southern Region's Victoria railway station which is correctly shown in the earlier scene in the 'The Wreck of the Mary Deare'. -- Last edit: 2019-05-10 12:16:52 |
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