I think this is a Marseal - anyone got any entry list?
Barry Bonner
Sunday, January 4, 2009
I have a treasured photo taken in 1922 of a Marseal at the family home. The driver was my mother (in a cloche hat) and passengers my two brothers and sister. I was not in the photo because I wasn't born until 1929. Thanks to your photo archive and other entries omn the web I have finally been able to identify the car for sure. My eldest brother always maintained it was a Marseal but he spelt it differently. The reg. No. was 0K 3868. Is it true, as my brother stated, that the car had no differential and was likely to shed a wheel if cornered too fast? Barry Bonner
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
D M K Marendaz and a Mr Seelhaft formed a company in 1921 to manufacture light cars in Coventry. The earliest cars were named 'Marseel', but Mr S seems to have departed fairly rapdily, and by the time of the announcement of a new model in April 1922, the name had been changed to 'Marseal'.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Seelhaft is wrong it was Seelhoff (my great grandfather) the misspelling entered British Car History in the 1950s. My dad has been trying to find one of them most of his life. The name of the car became Marseal rather than Marseel after he left. My father says that the cars were badly built particularly after his grandfather left and were essentially kit cars from then (and not necessarily much better before)
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I think this is a Marseal - anyone got any entry list?
I have a treasured photo taken in 1922 of a Marseal at the family home. The driver was my mother (in a cloche hat) and passengers my two brothers and sister. I was not in the photo because I wasn't born until 1929. Thanks to your photo archive and other entries omn the web I have finally been able to identify the car for sure. My eldest brother always maintained it was a Marseal but he spelt it differently. The reg. No. was 0K 3868. Is it true, as my brother stated, that the car had no differential and was likely to shed a wheel if cornered too fast? Barry Bonner
D M K Marendaz and a Mr Seelhaft formed a company in 1921 to manufacture light cars in Coventry. The earliest cars were named 'Marseel', but Mr S seems to have departed fairly rapdily, and by the time of the announcement of a new model in April 1922, the name had been changed to 'Marseal'.
Seelhaft is wrong it was Seelhoff (my great grandfather) the misspelling entered British Car History in the 1950s. My dad has been trying to find one of them most of his life. The name of the car became Marseal rather than Marseel after he left. My father says that the cars were badly built particularly after his grandfather left and were essentially kit cars from then (and not necessarily much better before)