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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: Scootacar_mk1 on July 13, 2014, 02:42:00 pm

Title: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: Scootacar_mk1 on July 13, 2014, 02:42:00 pm

http://youtu.be/Qas5wAEb4rc


Sory if this has been posted before!!

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on July 13, 2014, 03:15:07 pm

Excellent! :) Never seen this one before.

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: richard on July 13, 2014, 03:17:27 pm

nice one !! and oddly i have just had a kit kat and  cuppa in the garden

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: Bob Purton on July 13, 2014, 07:47:53 pm

I have never seen it before either. Thanks for posting.

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: marcus on July 13, 2014, 07:57:56 pm

Superb, new one on me too, thanks for posting.
I have never had a Kit Car.

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: swanktank on July 13, 2014, 08:44:43 pm

I mentioned it in my Goggomobil (!) page three or four years ago.
Maurice

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: marcus on July 14, 2014, 08:00:13 am

Well I read every page of RCN so must have read about it but it is always nice to actually see such an ad!

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: marcus on July 15, 2014, 12:09:46 pm

The YT film which follows the Kit Kat ad.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FAwJr-qOxQ


includes an interesting small truck towing a trailer at the Rowntrees factory; perhaps comparable to a Scammell Mechanical Horse or Scarab. Anyone know what it is?

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on July 15, 2014, 02:47:14 pm

I'm fairly certain its a French Latil TL.

http://www.avant-train-latil.com/galerie_TL.php (http://www.avant-train-latil.com/galerie_TL.php)

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: richard on July 15, 2014, 03:05:28 pm

Strange - you would think it more likely now as owned by Nestle aren't they

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on July 15, 2014, 03:17:05 pm

Apparently Latil had a factory in London in the 1920s.

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: marcus on July 15, 2014, 04:15:40 pm

Many thanks Malcolm.
The original Scammell Mechanical Horse (fore-runner of the Scarab) was also produced in France based on Citroen parts.

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: AndrewG on July 15, 2014, 04:31:30 pm

Quote from: marcus on July 15, 2014, 04:15:40 pm

The original Scammell Mechanical Horse (fore-runner of the Scarab) was also produced in France based on Citroen parts.

Wow - never too late to learn, eh?

(http://www.offroadvehicle.ru/AZBUCAR/FAR/SNCF%20FAR.jpg)

Title: Re: Have a break, have a kit Kat
Post by: marcus on July 15, 2014, 04:38:45 pm

^ That's the one! Ironically, I believe the French version was rather better than the British one.
Still not as stylish as the Scarab or later Townsman though.

Almost "On Topic" because they are "Micro" trucks, and Scarab and Townsman were 3 wheelers! I recall an Italian truck very much like the Scarab too.

Going back to the ad, I have always wondered how I came to know about Heinkel and Messerschmitt bubble cars, perhaps I saw this ad when I was a boy.