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Invicta 1924-2012 - Glorious

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Created in 2013

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Roger Gloor

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Daniel Reinhard

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Balz Schreier

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Daniel Reinhard

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Balz Schreier

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Invicta (1947) - not a sports car for once

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Invicta 4.5 S Low Chassis Tourer (1934) - with bodywork by Carbodies Limited Coventry, auctioned by Sotheby's in 1991

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Invicta (1947) - four-door passenger car by Col Heywood

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Invicta (1947) - the passenger car of Col. Heywood

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Invicta S-Type Tourer 4.5 Litre (1932) - stands quite crouched, for the time

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Invicta S-Type Tourer 4.5 Litre (1932) - the Invicta looks martial even with the emergency top on

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Invicta 4,5 S Low Chassis (1930) - at the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring 'in 1976 - driver R. C. J. Wood

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Invicta Black Prince (1948) - shown at the 1947 Paris Motor Show

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Invicta Black Prince (1948) - equipped with a fully automatic mechanism, a sensation at the time

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Invicta 4.5 Competition (1928) - at the Klausenrennen 2013 in the regularity classification

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Invicta (1931) at the Ennstal Classic 2010

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Invicta 4.5 Competition (1928) - at the Klausenrennen 2013 in the regularity classification

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Invicta 4.5NL (1929) - Pre-war legends at the 2012 ADAC Eifelrennen

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Summary

There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of which have disappeared. Invicta can also be counted among these vanished brands. Invicta cars could easily compete with the Bentleys of the early days. They were fast, sleek and won many races.

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The Invicta could compete with the Bentleys of the early days, even if their engines, bodies and even the chassis were always built to order. Because Captain (later Sir) Noel Macklin was taken with the American Doble and Stanley steam cars, he strove for analogous smoothness for his own make. The first cars built by William Watson in Cobham, Surrey, had a 2.7-litre six-cylinder engine from Coventry Climax. In 1926, the 3-liter model with a Meadows engine appeared, with which the first 100,000-mile record (90.3 km/h in Monza) and race victories were achieved. The first 4.5-liter Meadows engine was available from 1928; it was also used in the luxury NLC model with an elaborate chassis structure, which competed with the small Rolls-Royces.

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