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Car type: Race Ulster, 1926 Special, 1927 Chummy, 1930 Box
Not a name I’ve come across before. Might be just the photograph but the casting looks a mite porous.
Alan Fairless
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I believe Speedex packed up in 1962, and the addresses are barely 5 miles apart...
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Robin Read traded as The Sporting Motorists Agency Ltd. producing components under the Dante name. Didn't he go to Lotus in 1959?
Steve
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That's great. I couldn't decide whether the head was old or a recent creation. I don't need it, but it's interesting how interconnected all the suppliers of special bits were
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Doesn't Caldo mean Hot in Latin ? Maybe a sign of a classical education. Dante certainly had an Inferno !
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Not really, but it does in Italian.
Alan Fairless
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Robin Read's firm had Dan Taylor produce Dante (Dan Tay---) heads and subsequently Jem Marsh folowed from the same source ( the Horeston Horrors) with his Speedex heads, wheels etc --maybe your finned brake drums ??--- \\ so think this from Dan's shed.
Does anyone outv there know the sourcing foundries for " Cambridge" and Montgomery's "Super Accessories" heads??
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I read somewhere that the Dante heads etc were made in Dan's garden shed using aluminium from scrap RR Merlin engines. I have an unused Dante head and the quality of the metal looks to be vastly superior to that of the Caldo head.