The Things They Say
"The reason motor racing did not matter (in Britain, in the I950s) is encapsulated in one word, Brooklands . . . There are still some who drone on about the…
A Projecta, or not?
A READER has sent in a rather faded post-card depicting a canoe shaped cycle-car standing under a banner saying “. . .Race”. The carts with very spindly, three-stud wire wheels and a single acetylene headlamp and it appears that the photograph has been printed inverted, as the car is shown as left hand drive, somewhat unlikely for the period which appears tube either immediately before or shortly after World War I.
Very few details of the car are discernible in the photograph, and the only cycle-car which we have come across which resembles it is a Project.. Than make was produced in the immediate pee’car years by the Percival White Engineering Company in North London and was equiPP:d with a V-twin J.A.P. engine and two speed belt transmission. The car differs from Ohnt.graPhs tif early Projectas in that it looks rather more substantial, as if it was a modified version, perhaps built specially for competition. Does anyone know whether a Projecta ever raced?