Classic crossword

David Cass 1 2 3

UK performance-car builder from 1937 to the late 1950s: competition successes included a Monte Carlo Rally win, British Hillclimb Championship win, and a 24 Hours of Le Mans third place (6) 8. British manufacturer active from 1906 to 1954; production included flat-twin and flat-four engines (6) 10. First part of the name of the famous luxury cars (and aviation engines) designed by Marc Birkigt (7) 11. Prominent Coventry-based manufacturer noted for its blue diamond radiator emblem (5) 12. ---- Railton was a prominent British automobile designer, whose successes included the ERA voiturette racing car and land-speed record cars built for Malcolm Campbell and John Cobb (4) 13. Model name for Humber six-cylinder cars, used from 1930 to 1940, and again from 1945 to ’48: Super ----- versions were sold alongside it part of the time, and continued through to 1967 (5) 17. Model name for Rootes Group’s / Chrysler’s upmarket variants of the Super Minx / Hunter, usually badged as Singers, with a few Aussie-built Humbers (5) 18. Abbreviated version of the name for GM’S mass-market brand in the US (4) 22. Model name used by Lincoln from 1952 to ’59 for three generations of full-size cars, the first of which were lively performers — probably the ‘hot-rod Lincoln’ of the old pop song (5) 23. British marque name; active from 1907, it later came under Rootes ownership then eventually Chrysler discontinued the marque name in 1978 (7) 24. Low-production French builder (1956–’63?) of neat little frontwheel-drive coupés based on the mechanical elements of the famous marque of clue 1 down (6) 25. New Zealand model name for the Simca Aronde, sold in small numbers in the 1960s (6)