Archive 2 Set 4: Gallery 161 - 180

Archives of your 3-Wheelers.

Gallery 174

My thanks go to Ivor Nixon for these photos of his old 1912 Wall. Ivor writes:

I thought you might be interested in a 1912 Wall that I owned for ten years  or so -- 1977 to 1987.  I bought it from a gentleman in Toronto named Arnold Korne who built it almost from scratch after he found a collection of miscellaneous unidentified parts in the boot of a larger conventional vehicle which he imported from the U.K.  It was only after a English expatriate managed to identify the make that he was able to  restore it to an excellent replica of the Wall. It had a drive shaft  connected to the rear axle via a differential. I carried on the work  by adding some parts such as a silencer, headlamp and licence  plate, having the 500cc single-cyclinder motorcycle engine overhauled so that it could be made to run, and building a custom trailer to haul it around. But running it one the road proved almost impossible and I contented myself with showing it at various meetings and shows.

With its brass bits shined up it was a real attention-getter even though no-one in Canada had the faintest idea what it was!
When there was nothing more  I could do I decided it should be auctioned off in England where  its uniqueness would be recognized. So I shipped it off in a container to  Mike Worthington-Williams
of Sotheby's where it brought GB £9,000. Nine  months later the unknown buyer put it up at auction again with Christie's at Donington, and this time it got knocked down for the unbelievable sum of  GB £61,000!!! No-one, not even Mike,  knows who owns it now. There was a  short article with picture about the sale in Classic and Sportscar of June  1988 (if memory serves).

At that time I and anyone else who claimed to  be knowledgable thought it was the only Wall in the world. But at about  that time, unknown to me, a gentleman in New Zealand had begun a  similar restoration of a Wall parcel car which is now complete and running.

You can find out more on Wall in the A-Z section of this site.

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