Rare 1905 Panhard engine found using Street View

Huge 10.6-litre engine may have lain on Spanish village pavement for over half a century

Words Mark Dixon Photography The Walker family

A RARE vintage Panhard engine of more than ten litres capacity – similar to the ones used in early Grand Prix cars – has been found abandoned on a pavement in a Spanish village, after being tracked down by a teenager using Google’s Street View. It seems that the engine had been taken out of a car and used to power the machinery in a local mill, probably in the early 1920s. The engine was later removed when electricity was installed at the mill, and dumped on a pavement in the village of Los Gallardos in Andalusia. It has remained there ever since, perhaps since as far back as the 1930s. VSCC stalwart Mark Walker received a tip-off about the engine and asked his teenage son Hughie if he could locate it…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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