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An AC 2 Litre (Series Three) owners instruction book is for sale on Ebay:
   
   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC-2-Litre-Series-Three-General-Instructions-/110885849135?pt=UK_CarParts_Vehicles_Manuals_Litterature_ET&hash=item19d14fc82f
   
   plus two sales brochures:
   
   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC-SIX-CYLINDER-TWO-LITRE-2-DOOR-SALOON-BROCHURE-/300719113311?pt=UK_CarParts_Vehicles_Manuals_Litterature_ET&hash=item460441845f
   
   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC-2-LITRE-2-4-Door-Saloon-Car-Sales-Brochure-c1953-/360353021626?pt=UK_CarParts_Vehicles_Manuals_Litterature_ET&hash=item53e6b6beba

There's an Ace and Aceca Instruction Manual on Ebay, together with two supplements, a Lucas wiring diagram and a Girling bulletin on brake and clutch equipment.
   
   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AC-Cars-Ace-Aceca-General-Instructions-Hand-Book-/170847821272?pt=UK_CarParts_Vehicles_Manuals_Litterature_ET&hash=item27c752ddd8

S F Edge registered the name of the company as AC (Acedes) Cars Ltd in 1927 when he acquired total control. I see some earlier AC cars of the 1920's are sometimes called Acedes (e.g. by owners, cars for sale, and even the ACOC register) but is this actually correct?
   
   I can't find the use of the name Acedes by AC in any literature prior to 1927. Can anyone advise please?
   
   Many thanks

Another early 20's 4-cylinder for sale:
   
   http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C292023

An innovative swivelling ashtray, from the 1930's, marked AC (Acedes) Thames Ditton, is for sale on Ebay. It's very probably from an early saloon, and likely has the holes either side for hanging your pipe(s)....for grabbing for a quick puff....
   
   http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-AC-ACEDES-ASH-TRAY-AC-INSIGNIA-/180850526144?pt=UK_Car_Parts_Vehicles_Automobila_ET&hash=item2a1b8807c0

Some subscribers and readers to the forum may not know that in 1927 the AC company supplied engines for the government-funded R100 airship project. The engines were used to run the auxiliaries (the main engines were six Rolls-Royce twelve-cylinders!)
   
   Here's a photo, with interesting caption, from the archives of 'Flight' magazine (issue 13 Oct 1927) showing the familiar AC-6, in vintage form with its single updraught carb, cam-driven waterpump etc.
   
   

An interesting period photo has appeared on the web. Taken in Vancouver, Canada it shows a 1928/9 (pre-receivorship) AC 2-door saloon, likely with the 16/56 engine. Also, nice liner in the background.
   
   From the website (http://oecc.ca/Society/History/VPL%20Collection/Vancouver%20Public%20Library%20Collection.htm) you can click onto the photo there for higher-res.

Another vintage car, not on the ACOC register, has surfaced. This one, a 1924 four-cylinder. The car, yet again, resides in a museum, this time in South Africa. Here's a couple of shots - the car needing a little care by the looks of it, and the second photo showing some interesting details, not least that it was supplied by T B Adair, an AC agent in the 1920's, in Johannesburg.
   

The plate of the vintage car, as published by Profile Publications in the late 1960's, in 'The 2-litre A C Six' is now available as a good quality jpeg in large format. Here's a link, for those interested:
   
   http://www.smcars.net/forums/attachments/c/15031d1141264043-ac-six-25-ac-six.jpg
   
   

Amazing, that after all this time and the continuation of the ACOC Vintage Register over so many years, that a car has surfaced that is unknown to the club!
   
   It's a vintage 6-cylinder, registered now as AB·45·28 in Portugal, and resides currently in the Caramulo Museum, Portugal (in the mountains, east of the main Lisbon-Porto road). It is chassis number 13723, carries engine number E2N2194, and is painted green. It is said to be 1927 vintage, which would tally with the numbers. It is owned privately, but has been at the museum since 2004.
   
   Here's a couple of photos:
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The current issue of 'The Automobile' (October) has an article on the ACOC National gathering at Thames Ditton, with photos of the vintage cars at Ferry Works.

'The House of Eliott' (first shown early 90's) is being repeated on ITV3, each weekday. Set in the 1920's, keep an eye out for the AC Six of Alec Jacobs, that appears in a number of episodes.
   
   Alec still has the car; EX 1945, it's green with black wings. It's on the following link, about halfway down, at the Brooklands National:
   
   http://www.acownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1296

Last night on television, BBC 2, there was a programme about P G Wodehouse ('Wogan on Wodehouse'). A photo flashed onto the screen, of Wodehouse in a polished aluminium AC, from the early 1920's, looking very much the Bertie Wooster - here's the shot below. The car looks like a 4-cylinder (12/24):
   
   

Couldn't resist posting this onto the forum.
   
   The heading could be 'What an AC!' or 'What....an AC?'
   
   Note the 'cobra' on bonnet!
   
   
   
   (PS It started life as an AC invalid car)

An interesting 1928 'fabric covered' saloon (the last of its kind?) is for sale in South Africa. Carries a high price, though the vintage sixes are much better than many other comparable higher-priced vintage cars! (And justly deserve a market revaluation).
   
   Here's a link:
   http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-for-sale-print.php/carno/133700