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<blockquote data-quote="highbury731" data-source="post: 97001" data-attributes="member: 1557"><p>Today I bought an old 'Classic Cars' magazine, dated October 1975. There's a picture (the faces are in deep shadow, but I think the central figure is Ted Davis) of the Vincent 3-wheeler taken by Jack Rance in 1955 at the Tempsford Speed Trials. The text below by Jonathan Wood says:</p><p></p><p>"In the second half of the original RGS Atalanta article, (Thoroughbred and Classic Cars, May) I made a passing reference to a three-wheeler incorporating an RGS front end which Dick Shattock built for Vincent around 1954. Powered by an 800cc (sic) Vincent engine the device did prove to be somewhat on the slow side! Dick recalled the three-wheeler being spirited off to the Vincent factory and was thought to have disappeared from view.</p><p></p><p>It was therefore a pleasant surprise to receive a letter from Jack Rance of Radlett, Herts, enclosing a photograph he took of this rare device. Can anyone shed any light on its fate, by the way?</p><p></p><p>He writes "the photo was taken by my ancient camera in 1955 Tempsford Speed Trials. All I remember is that the machine, which comprised the rear end of a Vincent Black Shadow mated to what I thought was a VW front axle arrived on Vincent works trade plates. I forgot what sort of performance it had.""</p><p></p><p>I had never heard how the 3-wheeler came to be built. Did Dick Shattock make it on comission or on spec? My recollection is that it belonged to Roy Harper for a while and is now owned by a well-known Hertfordshire Vincent specialist</p><p></p><p>Paul</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="highbury731, post: 97001, member: 1557"] Today I bought an old 'Classic Cars' magazine, dated October 1975. There's a picture (the faces are in deep shadow, but I think the central figure is Ted Davis) of the Vincent 3-wheeler taken by Jack Rance in 1955 at the Tempsford Speed Trials. The text below by Jonathan Wood says: "In the second half of the original RGS Atalanta article, (Thoroughbred and Classic Cars, May) I made a passing reference to a three-wheeler incorporating an RGS front end which Dick Shattock built for Vincent around 1954. Powered by an 800cc (sic) Vincent engine the device did prove to be somewhat on the slow side! Dick recalled the three-wheeler being spirited off to the Vincent factory and was thought to have disappeared from view. It was therefore a pleasant surprise to receive a letter from Jack Rance of Radlett, Herts, enclosing a photograph he took of this rare device. Can anyone shed any light on its fate, by the way? He writes "the photo was taken by my ancient camera in 1955 Tempsford Speed Trials. All I remember is that the machine, which comprised the rear end of a Vincent Black Shadow mated to what I thought was a VW front axle arrived on Vincent works trade plates. I forgot what sort of performance it had."" I had never heard how the 3-wheeler came to be built. Did Dick Shattock make it on comission or on spec? My recollection is that it belonged to Roy Harper for a while and is now owned by a well-known Hertfordshire Vincent specialist Paul [/QUOTE]
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