The second design of the range - the Ford 103E (Popular) based Edwardian Tourer  
    
  
  The Tourer was by far the most numerous survivor of the Siva range of Edwardians due to the fact that four seats are much more flexible and there was always the "wedding trade" for some extra cash at weekends.  At least one car was professionally built from scratch for wedding hire and later became novelty transport for hotel guests in Blackpool.  Another spent some seventeen years as an attraction outside a restaurant in Chedder, Somerset. It is possible that this car was also "commercially" built (the name on the radiator being Batley - I believe).  There is also another "stretched" tourer again probably for the wedding trade.

New finds are continually surfacing and as with most novelty cars - no one ever throws them away!  Many of the cars being restored are being completed to much higher standards that were ever envisaged by the makers who stuck to the view that the Siva Edwardian was a cheap, fun summer runabout!  Coupled with Ford's legendary engineering these little Edwardian replicas will take you far and wide - weather permitting!

There are at least two styles of bulkhead - one with a central battery box built in the centre and the other much more numerous type without the battery box.  Some later cars utilised the Parisiene and San Remo style rounded mudguards but there are few examples of these surviving.  Many owners dispensed with the screw on fibreglass wheel trims and opted for ether plain original wheels or went the route of making adaptors for artillery wheels.  Siva actually had cast 18" artillery wheels for the Ford and VW based cars.  There are no known survivors with these wheels inless you known something different....

Some the professionally built cars sport buttoned upholstery rather than the supplied seat covers which relied on a draw-string to retain the cover on the seat base.  

A number of cars have had the windscreen made so that it folds down for more "wind in the hair" rides.  To be safe, this modification does need some retaining and support system to avoid the windscreen rising up at speed and clouting the driver.

One area for development was always the hood on the 4 seater as the distance spanned by the fabric was twice as much as the 2 seater.  The consequence was that the hood would either "balloon" at anything over walking pace or just wildly flap as the white-faced owner gingerly tacked up the road.

The optional side-screens allow the tourer to be made up into a sort of mobile tent in wet weather but driving is strictly limited because any commercial vehicle that passes is likely to suck the adjacent side-screens out into the road.  In practice, it is better to wear a wet suit and dispense with the side-screens unless camping! The hood frame on the example below has been replaced with a much more durable design that doesn't flap but does take a while to erect.