Warren-Lambert

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Warren-Lambert | Pre War British Sports Cars

The sports Warren-Lambert is chiefly remembered in the early 1920s for the extraordinary size of its outside copper exhaust. It had every appearance of being a portable drain-pipe, and was the subject of much leg-pulling, often of a decidedly ribald nature. Joking apart, the Warren was quite a potent little piece of machinery, and was capable of a genuine 65 m.p.h. The very standard 66 x l09.5-mm. Coventry-Simplex power unit had a single Solex carburetter and Thomson-Bennett magneto. Springing was by quarter-elliptic all round, transmission via a leather cone clutch, and gear ratios were 3.6, 5.8, 9 and 14 to 1.

The low weight of 9|-cwt. gave the car a really snappy performance, and it seems to have acquitted itself admirably in many trials of the period. It is difficult to establish how long the car remained in production, nor if many were actually sold. We are not too sure if any were on the roads following WW2, and given the noise it created not many owners were likely to have wanted to keep them. But history will remember that, in company with the Hampton touring cars, the Warren-Lambert was very conspicuous for some early and successful ascents of the then notoriously difficult Nailsworth Ladder, near Stroud.
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