Period photos

X TYPE 14-16hp

12-16hp X type. Late 1908 London reg.

Y TYPE

Y1 rebodied

From Leith Newell, via John, May 2025. This is Y1 rebodied. Yes, the 1908 2000 miles RAC Trials winner! Image probably taken in 09, or 10. I can tell this because it has the same wire wheels with central hex nut as the Y1 shot at Brooklands. They are not Riley wheels. Old Blue
(Y2) has those. They use a 6 peg drive, which you can see poking through the hubs.
This car also has the slender 3 & 1/2" deep chassis rails. The biggest clue are the shallow tapered front dumb irons of the X type chassis.
Yes, both Y1 & Y2 used X type chassis, gearboxes (but factory converted to 4 speeds) and modified back axles.

Possibly Y2

A TYPE

31st May 1913: Lord Exmouth's A type. Gala Day at Brooklands

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A09. Photo taken in Imperial Institute Road, S. Kensington, 1914. Original owners Lord & Lady Twining (of the tea company). Driver is Frederick Ruffles, previously their Head Coachman.

A 16-20hp: South Africa

Probably A 16-20hp

B TYPE

B type 6 cylinder

B 30hp. Mulliner body. 1912 Olympia show car, purchased by A H Briggs, a director of Rolls Royce

Arthur Mulliner (Northampton) body

1914 35HP 6 cylinder. Carlton body. (coachbuilder?) (RUS). Photo: Ivan Barantsev

1914 B type 35hp 6 cyl (RUS)

1914 B type 35hp 6 cyl Goodwood tourer (RUS)

1914 B type 'Goodwood"

Probably B type 6 cylinder, c.1913

Ref Chris Jones: "Photographed in South Queensferry Edinburgh, outside my old house. Built to oversee construction of Forth Rail Bridge, later a Royal Navy Hospital WW1".