Is this radiator grille from a old Riley or Wolseley?

Looks like the Riley diamond shaped badge, AFAIK the Wolseley badge was oval, but I don't know when they put a light behind it certainly around in the late 1930s. Bye Don

Wolseley were more angular across the top

I thinks more on the lines of a Singer and the doors long bonnet but the grill does not roll back enough.

Alvis? similar grill.

Gee, it's not QUITE any of those three, is it? Viewers can ignore the rest of the bodywork, which is mostly Fiat 500 Topolino (of which there were scores and scores on stock cars, though I never saw one on the road!)

Any more suggestions?

Rover 75 1949-ish..

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P3? Interesting guess - but don't think so. Too narrow, too small, and the badge/top shape's wrong.

Would not surprise me if it were not a truck grill as it does not have a crank hole which suggests that the grill was higher than the crankshaft or too difficult to crank a truck.

I was looking at it being as a whole unit with the bonnet and engine covers,

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I think you're right --thank you ---- does anyone know a good forum / group / website for older commercial vehicles??

That doesn't not necessarily follow. The Morris Minor crank handle goes through the front bumper rather than the grille, and I think the Jowett was the same (the picture is of neither of those though).

If you magnify the picture, it doesn't look as though there is a name badge, rather some holes where a badge would be fixed. My instinct is that the cowling and the vertical bars that make up the grille are from two different vehicles and have been assembled for appearance rather than authenticity. Thin vertical bars are likely to be later (say late

Jim

Jim, here is the best I could do, from a higher-res version of the original photo:

The badge has been identified by Delahaye experts as a 1930s Delahaye badge, but nobody can "place" the surround. Oddly, the intergral ridge leading from the top of the badge to the rad cap IS a Delahaye feature on some of their prewar commercial features. So yes, perhaps ithe in-fill bars are a later addition. Fascinating to research, and I haven't stopped yet!

Thanks for the update

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Delahaye? Blimey o'Reilly.

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