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The SVVS Website currently receives
approximately 500,000
hits a year and the "HELP
PAGE" is internationally the most
visited 'page' on the site. We receive numerous e-mails from historians
and motoring enthusiasts from all over the world with the request to
identify vehicles from old photographs. We can help with identification
of Classic cars because most of us are old enough to remember them as
new, and owning Vintage or Veteran vehicles, many of us, and/or our
associates, are also specialists in own make or type of vehicle -
These Help Pages are therefore devoted to some of the interesting enquiries
received, and information that we have provided. While page is
being built, enquiries are in received order, - when completed, cars are in year order:
Page102
below relates to enquiries received
during
2016 Click
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1900 La Sirene 5hp Light Car
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement.
Advised by our Ariejan Bos that he
thinks this is
a great rarity being a cca
1900 La Sirene Light Car. If so, made
by Fernandez & Cie, Paris, having a 5HP V twin
engine, 3 speed gearbox & shaft drive.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1903 James & Browne 9HP Tonneau
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement.
Advised by our Ariejan Bos that he
thinks this is a
cca 1903 James & Browne 9HP Rear Entrance Tonneau.
James & Brown were London based 1896 to
1910. One yearly does The Brighton Run.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1903 Dennis 16'20 Light Touring Car
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement.
Advised by our Ariejan Bos that he
thinks this is a
cca
1903 Dennis 16'20 Light Touring Car.
Vehicles were made in Guildford and this one was advertised as
'weight 16cwt and costing 550 Guineas'.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1903 Gladiator Tonneau
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Unfortunately a lot of his photos are very faded or damaged so
identification requires a lot of photo repair and enhancement.
Advised by our Ariejan Bos that he
thinks this is a
French chain drive cca
1903 Gladiator Tonneau with
modified radiator/bonnet.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:  1905
Durkopp Tonneau
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement. Advised by our Ariejan Bos that
he
thinks this is a German Bielefeld made cca
1905 Durkopp Tonneau from the bolts in
the rad top. Should be noted that the British Belsize
had a similar feature.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1905
Daimler 28HP Tonneau
Surfing through the internet in attempting
to identify old vehicles we often come across photographs or old
Postcards, including those on Rootschat and those for sale on Ebay, of very interesting
ancient machinery which has not yet been identified, so we have a go
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British made car with N registration which is Manchester County
Borough Council but no dating records remain to help in dating. Famous
fluted radiator so a cca
1905 Daimler 28HP Tonneau made in
Coventry.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING: 1907
National Tonneau
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required repair and enhancement. Advised by our Ariejan Bos that
he
thinks this is one of the English
makes well-known in their time but forgotten now; a cca
1907 National Tonneau, poss the
20'24, made by Rose Brothers, bodies by Hamshaw.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1907 Spyker Landaulette
Fascinating photo received from Chris
Moriarty from Christchurch (New Zealand)
currently researching wife's grandparents, who emigrated UK to New
Zealand in 1910. Grandfather was a chauffeur in the Ludlow area in
Shropshire, here sitting in a car with the owners, Rouse-Boughtons of
Downton Hall. --
Boughton Baronetcy created 1641 for supporting Royalist cause became
extinct 1963. The car was built in Amsterdam, Holland, and is a
cca 1907
Spyker Landaulette, long bonnet
poss 30'42.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1909 Praga Charron Phaeton
Cinema screen grab taken from a Czech film "Kacenka
a zase ta strasidla" made in 1993 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. The film is about supernatural beings try to prevent their
house from being reconstructed into an attractive villa. --
Quite an unusual car made by the Prague Automobile Factory PAF PAT.
Based on the French Charron and likewise using bought in chassis and
engines from Renault and CGV, this is a cca
1909 Praga Charron Four Seat Phaeton.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1910 La Buire Hotel Omnibus
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Unfortunately a lot of his photos are very faded or damaged so
identification requires a lot of photo repair and enhancement.
Advised by our Ariejan Bos that he
thinks this is a
1909/10
La Buire Hotel Omnibus,
built in Lyon in France (1847 to
1930).
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1911 Lion-Peugeot Tourer
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement. Advised by our Ariejan Bos that
he
thinks this is a cca
1911 Lion-Peugeot Tourer.
Lion-Peugeots were made by the sons of the Peugeot brothers in
Valetigney on Swiss border, later merged Peugeot.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING: 1911
Mercedes Inside Drive Limousine
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement. Registration
D 6216 is Kent County Council mid 1911. Advised by our Ariejan Bos that
he
thinks this is a cca 1913 Mercedes
Inside Drive Limousine suggesting a
possible re-body later. Shaft Drive.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
c1912 Armstrong Whitworth Landaulet
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement. Advised by our Ariejan Bos that
he
thinks this is a cca
1912 Armstrong Whitworth Landaulet
with very low radiator filler cap. A-W made
armaments, ships, locomotives, automobiles and
aircraft.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1912 Ford Model T Town Car
Further photograph received from Simon Prentis (UK)
saying " Once again, I have need of
your extraordinary service. The photo shows my great-grandparents and my
grandmother, and was probably taken around 1910 in Penang, where they
were in the diplomatic service.--
No louvres on the angular bonnet and has front driver's door, which
would date it to a very smart cca
1912 Ford Model T Town Car. Body could
be locally made so could possibly be earlier, but doubtful if
built in Malaya.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:
1913 FN Landaulette
Another photo received from Ken Brown,
Hampshire (UK)
who says always a pleasure looking through the Help Pages.
Perhaps we would enjoy the challenge of identifying a few mystery car
photos from his collection. --
Another photo which required photo repair and enhancement. Advised by our Ariejan Bos that
although original is a bit vague he
thinks this is clearly a
cca 1913 FN
Landaulette, possibly a 2000. FN made
weapons/cars/motorcycles in Liege Belgium, to 1960.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1919 Studebaker Big Six EG
Further photograph received from Simon Prentis (UK)
saying " Can you work your
identification magic on this vehicle too, please? It belonged to my
grandfather when he was living in Singapore. I think the photos date
from around 1925. Singapore plate. --
Identification features are square headlamps with round glass, short run
of 14 louvres towards back of bonnet, and two piece windscreen. This
dates this car to being an American cca
1919 Studebaker Big Six, a seven
passenger Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1924 Citroen 5HP Cloverleaf
Cinema screen grab taken from a French film "La
Promesse de l'aube" (Promise at Dawn) made in 1970 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. The film stars Melina Mecouri and is about an overbearing
Russian-born mother and son who settle in Paris. As twenty years pass,
they encounter social change, age, different convictions, poverty and
the slow approach of World War II. --
Quite a common French car being a cca
1924 Citroen 5HP with Cloverleaf body.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING: 1925
Flint Six Fifty Five Brougham
A glorious period photo received from Alun
Pugh of Leeds (UK)
who says " I would be most grateful if you could possibly ID the
attached photograph. You are most welcome to use this photo in
anyway you see fit." --
Unusual car to have a UK numberplate indicating registration at Derby
County Council. Car was made in Flint Michigan USA by a Durant subsidiary
and is a cca 1925 Flint Six Fifty Five Brougham. Then cost c£450 in
UK. Durant had financial problems and closed Flint down 1927.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1928
Standard Nine & 1929
Austin 12'4
Lovely family group photo sent to us by
Peter Marsh (UK) saying
"Doing some family research and come across a picture
of a family picnic. Based on age of my father (front left) c1930-32,
Bournemouth (then in Hants). I have been unable to identify the cars. -- Regretfully
cannot quite make out either registration clearly to confirm origin or
dating, but can advise that the car on the left is a cca
1928 Standard Nine Saloon , and
the car behind it is a bit later cca
1929 Austin 12'4 Saloon.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1931
and 1929 Chevrolet LQ
Another photograph from a new batch
received from George
Nica (Romania)
who collects car photos. These are new
from his unidentified file and this one may have been
taken in Romania. Can we identify the vehicles.
-- He
suggested they may be Chevrolets, which indeed they are. The one on the
left has an oval logo so is probably a cca
1931 Chevrolet LQ and the one on the
right has the older cross logo which suggests an earlier 1929
Chevrolet, again probably the LQ, 2.9-litre six.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1932
Ford Model B Four Door Sedan
Another photograph from a new batch received from George
Nica (Romania)
who collects car photos. These are new
from his unidentified file and this one may have been
taken in Romania. Can we identify the vehicle.
-- He
suggested it may be a Ford, which it indeed is. This is a model that
followed the Model A and was eventually made in three versions. This is
the first, a
cca 1932 Ford Model B Four Door Sedan.
Later a V8 engine, distinguishable by the V8 Logo on the headlamp bar.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1940
Einheitz PKW
One of a number of interesting photos sent to us by
Andrew Kostin from Moscow (Russia) who
is a collector of old photos. Can we identify this photo of a captured
vehicle once used by the Luftwaffe personnel (judging from the number
plate). -- People are hiding all
identification
features. Looks like German Einheits jeep type vehicle to a unified
design made by Stoewer, BMW, Hanomag, Opel, Auto Union and Ford
Germany. Possibly be RHD as right windscreen is openable?
BMW 325?
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DENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1941 Dodge Luxury Liner
Puzzling photograph received from Steve
Phillips (UK)
saying " I am wondering if you
are able to identify the attached car? Photo taken in Cornwall 1960s. It
is left hand drive, split screen, two tone paint, 1940s era? --
Registration OXU19 is London County Council, mid 1954, - which the car
obviously is not. Possibly a 'used import' from America or possibly an
American forces import from Europe. Our
Mark Dawber thinks Chrysler Group product, two-tone, cca
1941 Dodge Luxury Liner.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1951
Skoda 1102 Van
Another photograph from the old batch received from George
Nica (Romania)
who collects car photos. These are new
from his unidentified file and this one may have been
taken in Romania. Can we identify the vehicles.
-- As
most photos have featured American cars, bit of head scratching came up
with surprise that the smaller van on the right is from Czechoslovakia
and is cca
1951 Skoda 1102 Van. The lorries on
left seem to be Russian cca 1951 GAZ 51, or similar Polish licensed
Lubin 51.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Unknown
cca 1930s Truck
Another photograph received from George
Nica (Romania)
who collects car photos. He
bought another batch of pictures and thinks this one may have been
taken in Romania. Can we identify the vehicle.
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one seems to have the rad and logo in plain sight but unfortunately
none of our experts can put a name to it. The logo seems to be round
with wings, which is similar to the 1920s American REO, but nothing
much else is. Radiator is plain so European? Not Hanomag. Help please!
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