ESVAL MODEL - INVICTA - BLACK PRINCE SEDAN OF CHARLESWORTH 1948

The British brand Invicta, reconstituted after the Second World War, had a short life, absorbed in 1950 by AFN Ltd. Before the conflict, Invicta was founded by Noel Macklin and Oliver Lyle (one of the owners of Tate & Lyle) in 1925, and had made expensive automobiles. The Black Prince, presented in 1946, was the postwar model. Equipped with a 2998cc 6-cylinder in-line engine, the Black Prince reintroduced the luxury (and exorbitant price) of the previous Invicta. Equipped with refined but too complex and economically unsustainable technical solutions, the Black Prince was produced in very few examples (about fifteen) until 1950.