![]() ![]() in third gear, until the photographer said there were little red lines at 20, 40 and 70 m.p.h., respectively. Here I must confess to habitually going to an indicated 60 m.p.h. With no appreciable wind-noise (more, we discovered later, with the head down than up) and no mechanical intrusions, only the. And the way we covered the ground was a revelation. ![]() Steering and steering-column gear-shift, too, were reminiscent of the Lagonda’s sporting relative. The engine revved-up in instant response to the accelerator and had that same beautiful, hard exhaust note when accelerating as has the Aston-Martin. carriage wafted us Bourne-wards like a disguised DB II. Indeed, what I rather casually thought would turn out to be aĭocile 85-m.p.h. The engine feels unburstable and certainly is the ” steel hand in velvet glove” of this very fine motor car. Ask me why and I would attribute this facility for easy speed to excellent visibility, extremely good steering, and the willing acceleration from 70 to 90 m.p.h. Fortunately, (it dignified Lagonda proved more than adept at hurrying,-it soon became evident that here is a CIIT in which averages of the mile-a-minute order along our narrow, lorry-infested arterial routes are accomplished without effort, merely in the ordinary course of enjoyable fast driving. Both in the Lagonda, we headed up A 1 as fast as possible, for the pace we made determined whether or not we would 1:111.Ve time for a lunch-stop. This provides an opportunity to say that, within the limitations of a ” car new to owner ” and a Plus Four not entirely run-in, our brief hurry from Feltham to Potter’s Bar, where we garaged the Morgan, suggested that while a Plus Four can out-accelerate a Lagonda, the latter is the easier to propel quickly through congested places. Roberts showed me how to drive it, and off we went, hastily, photographer and Morgan Plus Four following, as we wished to leave the latter car at a convenient place ‘twixt London and Lincolnshire against the time when ” holiday ” became ” work ” again and I should have to get home from the (Alice round about midnight. Roberts Went to fetch the Press 21-litre I was shown a V12 that had been overhauled and rebodied for a wealthy client, and was told that over 160 V12 Lagondas are known to be still on the road-perhaps all this was to decoy me from asking awkward questions about a very American-looking prototype Lagonda of which TUSTIOUSS are afloatĪnyhow, the 21-litre, looking very “expensive ” in an unobtrusive way, turned up, Mr. David Brown’s Dove is brave enough to land there, to where they produce the present-day Lagonda cars. HavingĬollected him we drove round what was once Hanworth Air Park but is now devoted to the production of hay, so that only Mr. Mays found me in that hive of pedestrian activity, Feltham Iligh Street, waiting the arrival of the photographer at the pleasure of British Railways. Independent suspension at the back as well as at the front (see MOTOR Svelter, Apr11, 1950), and altogether conceived one of the most individualistic of Modern cars. Bentley evolved this tine power unit expressly for the post-war Lagonda. So successful has the 21-litre, twin-cam, six-cylinder engine been in the DB II Aston-Martin, after David Brown wisely substituted it for the earlier push-rod four-cylinder, that we are apt to overlook the fact that W. Lagonda and impatience must be tempered by remarking that it is an experience worth waiting for. I have waited 11 long time to sample the newest On this occasion I had the use of a 21-litre Lagonda drophead. Tnis ” holiday,” which is taken with steering wheels instead of buckets and bathing trunks, continued at the end of July with a journey to Bourne to discuss ILR.M. Holiday, Busman’s, Editor, for the Use of ![]()
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