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Each car was priced at around £1,500. A blue one was bought by the Prince of Wales late in 1930, and another crossed the Atlantic to be exhibited at the Detroit Car Show. In total, 12 Streamlines were built between 1929 and 1931, but none appear to have survived. Crossley Motors took out a licence to build the Streamline, and two of these vehicles survive.
The Straight eight Beverley-Barnes engines in the earlier cars proved unreliable, and in the final three cars examples were replaced by US-built 6-cylinder Lycoming or UK built Armstrong-Siddeley units.
Streamline Cars finally closed in 1936.
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