1924 Sunbeam 14/40 4-seat Tourer
1924 Sunbeam 14/40 in Squizzy Taylor, Movie, 1982
Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: 
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◊ 2019-02-16 19:34 |
The car is British. Pic is bit dark but seems to have slight rounded rad bottom so is a cca 1924 Sunbeam 14'40 Tourer. Vintman |
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◊ 2025-12-01 07:23 |
The scene was a reenactment of a police raid on the hideout of the Fitzroy Gang by detectives that occurred in Melbourne's inner-city area of Fitzroy on the morning of the 5th July 1918. At the time, members of the Fitzroy Gang were suspected of being involved with members of Fitzroy's rival gang, the Richmond Gang in the robbery of the Kilpatrick and Company Jewellers on Collins Street in the CBD that occurred on the afternoon of the 14th June 1918 in which £1,435 (about $158,210 in the current Australian currency for the year 2024) in diamonds were taken in the robbery. In the raid, three members of the Fitzroy Gang were arrested. The raid and the arrest of the three gang members were later believed to trigger the Fitzroy Vendetta gangland war from February to August 1919, between the Fitzroy Gang, led by gang boss and standover man, Henry "Long Harry" Slater and enforcer and ex-boxer, Edward "Ted" Whiting against the Richmond Gang, led by "two-up king", Henry Stokes and his associate, Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor as it was believed that members of the Richmond Gang tipped off the police that the Fitzroy gang's involvement in the Kilpatrick and Company. The events that led to vendetta itself was that in the months after the robbery and the arrest of the three Fitzroy gang members, Taylor's common-in-law wife, Dolly was assaulted and robbed by remaining members of the Fitzroy Gang at an underworld party in Fitzroy in which Dolly's jewellery was taken. -- Last edit: 2025-12-01 08:00:31 |
