From: Bruce White ([email protected])
Date: 22 Dec 2000
Time: 17:41:36
Remote Name: 129.96.230.236
Hans, some of the information is on this site about the Comet. I have been researching the car for many years now and luckily made contact with the son of the chap that was responsible for the car about a year ago. He has supplied me with much original information and photographs of the Comet and his dad. Previously there were (and still are) many different views as to its history. The ‘Musso’ was also built by Bill Conoulty and was very successful in motorsport in NSW for many years. The Comet also was used in different trials and had a number of motors used in its early life. It did not feature an alloy body and would not have been anywhere near as successful as the flyweight Musso. The Comet I have started off with a Nippy engine but soon after was used to test Conoulty’s new overhead value conversion (see photographs and patent information on this site). This was used for about a year. There was a lot of confusion between the two cars and even the names seemed to get mixed up and interchanged at times.
Nine Comets were made and three were shipped to the UK in 1934. The eight other Comets all had Nippy engines etc. I would love to know if any others thave survived either in the UK or Australia. A number of people have contacted me about getting body details and close up photographs to produce replica bodies. I don’t believe anyone has completed a replica to date.
I will add a photograph to this site in the next day or so of the Comet as I found it. It was finding the long sweeping front guards that caught my interest. I had never seen an Austin Seven with anything that remotely looked like them. It was a fun project and the history around Bill Conoulty has captured my imagination.
It you need any other information just contact me.
Cheers
Bruce