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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1900
Onfray Spider
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. This was taken at Salon de
l'Automobile, du Cycle et des Sports in January 1901 in Paris. Our
Ariejan Bos advises this is an unusual cca
1900 Onfray Spider from Cie. Française
des Cycles & Automobiles Paris.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
SAMF Two-seater
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. This was taken at Salon de
l'Automobile, du Cycle et des Sports in January 1901 in Paris. Our
Ariejan Bos advises this is an unusual cca 1900 SAMF Two-seater (Societe
des Automobiles et Moteurs Français).
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
Creanche Voiturette
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. Our Ariejan Bos advises taken during
the 1900 Concours des Voiturettes in Vincennes, Paris, and is a
cca 1900
Creanche Two-seater Voiturette. Similar car (type A) sold 2016 at
Sotheby's for 50,000 Euros.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900 Marcellin Voiturette
Special
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. This was taken at Concourse de Cote
de Chanteloup and our
Ariejan Bos advises Mr. Marcellin on a voiturette of his own make with
Buchet motors. Fastest time but not official to compete as had no body.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
Bardon 5HP Spyder
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. This was taken at Concourse de Cote
de Chanteloup and our
Ariejan Bos advises this is an unusual cca
1900 Bardon 5HP Spyder of which
about dozen cars made before taken over by
Georges Richard.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
Daimler Phoenix Rennwagen
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. This was taken at Concourse de Cote
de Chanteloup with Henry de Rothschild driving his cca
1900 Daimler Phoenix Rennwagen designed
by Maybach, which then the most powerful racing car, 50mph.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
Delahaye 14 HP Spyder
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. This was taken at Concourse de Cote
de Chanteloup hillclimb and our
Ariejan Bos advises this is an unusual rounded front cca
1900 Delahaye 14 HP Phaeton with Spyder Seat
made in Tours, Loire, France.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
Gobron-Brillie Double Phaeton
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This is a photo from an album by famous French photographer Jules Beau
(1864-1932) specialising in 'sport'. Our Ariejan Bos advises taken during
the Criterium de l'Alcool run from Porte de Maillot (Paris) to Rouen,
October 1900, and is a
cca 1900 Gobron-Brillie Double Phaeton
made in Paris. Sold in UK as 'Teras'.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1901'1900
De Dion Bouton Taxis
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This photo is notated as 'First
Taxis on the streets of St Petersburg, 1908'.
Both cars are French and built in Paris. The front one is a cca 1901 De
Dion Bouton Rear-entrance Tonneau, and rear one cca 1900 De Dion Bouton
Phaeton forward drive.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1905
Franklin 12HP Light Tonneau
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Pixly photo notated 'Dr. Frederick W. Smith - Health officer of Syracuse, New York - 1906.'
He purchased an automobile which was used extensively to treat the
scarlet fever epidemic, for which he was much praised. It is cca
1905 Franklin 12HP Light Tonneau.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1907
Argyll 16'20 Tourer
Photo received from Philip Clarke (UK) asking
if this could be the Sewell Alger car, believed a Wolseley, in which
father and son died 26th July 1903 at Edgehill, Warwickshire. Algers of
Diss, in Norfolk, were pioneer photographers. Charles Alger was also
agent for Wolseley. -- Photo
too small but this is definitely not a Wolsey. Photo
more likely around 1907and our Ariejan Bos thinks car could be c1907
Argyll. Subsequently found in an 1907 article in newspaper advising an
American visitor died.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1907 Humber 10'12 Tourer
Lovely photo received from Sally Goodsir (UK)
showing her great great uncle, driving her
great grandparents, probably in Cheshire. They knew each other for
several years and married in early 1912, then lived in India until the
early 1920s. No firm date for the photograph but likely 1912 or before.
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British and from flared front mudguards and and it being one of the
smaller models, it is a cca 1907 Humber
10'12. Humber was the second
largest manufacturer of cars just before WW1.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1912
Rochet Schneider Landaulette
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This photo is notated as '(Evacuation hospital). Russian
delegation. Departure.' Flat radiator,
rounded scuttle, so pre WW1, this is a French company from Lyon
which became British, and went bust. This is a cca
1912 Rochet Schneider Open Drive Landaulette.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1912
Wolseley 24'30 Landaulette
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This photo is notated as 'Mr_Girdwood entering a car.' HD Girdwood
(actually Canadian photographer Charles Girdwood) went to India for the
Delhi Durbar and went to WW1 France as photographer with Indian Army, a cca1912
Wolseley 24'30 Landaulette.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1913
Wolseley 24'30 Landaulette
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This photo is notated as ' Sir James Willcocks at his
headquarters.' Willcocks was
an army officer mainly in India and given commanded India Corps in France
WW1. The car is from the largest then British manufacturer, being cca
1913 Wolseley 24'30 Landaulette.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1913 Darracq 12HP Tourer
Interesting period photo received from
Jesse Walker (UK) saying
photo shows her second Great Grandfather in Nottingham in
1913 with wife and four children. He probably took the photo. No-one in
the family has more information on it. What might it have cost ? --
Our Ariejan Bos advises this is a French cca
1913 Darracq 12HP Tourer. Darracq had
their own company in UK in Kennington, London. The car would have cost
£295, and gallon of UK petrol 1s'9d ( or approximately £21 today
).
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1913
NAG K2 Doppelphaeton Taxi
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ancient machinery for which they are asking identification, so we have a go
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This photo is notated as 'Old Taxi in Helsinki' and in the url it is
questioned as a Darraq? Not a Darracq and not French. This is a German cca
1913 NAG K2 Doppelphaeton Taxi made
by Neue Automobil-Gesellschaft formed 1902 by AEG
electrical.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1914
NAG K2 Tourer Taxi
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ancient machinery for which they are asking identification, so we have a go
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This photo is notated as 'Darracq old Taxi' bur regretfully it is is not.
It is another cca
1914 NAG K2 Taxi. Note the Taxameter
behind the driver and the rather interesting tyre repair
band going round the whole of the top outsdide of the rear wheel.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1920
Overland Model 4 Touring
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This photo from Sweden is notated as 'Man sitting in a car next to the
railway. Four uniformed men in the background'. Confirmed
by our Mark Dawber that this is an American car built in Indianapolis,
being a c1920
Willys Overland Model 4 Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1929 Tatra 30 Saloon
Cinema screen grab taken from a Czech film "Anthropoid" made in
2016
where cars are being investigated by IMCDB. True story of WW2
mission of Czech exiles who are parachuted back home to assassinate SS
General Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Final Solution. --
This car is Czechoslovak manufacture from Koprivnice. Powered by
1679cc air cooled OHV boxter engine 24HP, rear wheel drive, with
transverse springing, capable of 90kph/55mph. This is a cca
1929 Tatra 30 Saloon.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1930
Fiat 521 Saloon
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This photo is notated as 'One of the cars used by the VOS Security Intelligence
Service in the 1940s in their actions in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Car is
from neighboring Italy being a cca
1930 Fiat 521 Saloon, or maybe
from Germany where it was also made.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1936
Chevrolet Master Delivery Van
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This photo is notated as 'Freia Chocolate Delivery Truck, Norway
1931'. Confirmed by our Mark Dawber that this is an American car
built in Detroit, being a cca
1936 Chevrolet Master Delivery Sedan
with a non-standard body, probably local made.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1939
Adler Trumph Junior Limousine
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 the German car in this photo
taken in East Germany (Saxony) in 1950s ? -- German
car indeed made in Frankfurt by a company also known for its
typewriters. From the circular holes in the wheels which were introduced
1938 and the fold down canvas centre of the roof, this is a cca
1939 Adler Trumph 1E Junior Cabrio Limousine,
over 100,000 made!
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1948 Daimler DE36 Limousine
Interesting newspaper cutting received from
Thailand
asking if we could identify one of the earlier cars that belonged to the
late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. -- From
what we can determine this was a cca
1948 Daimler DE36 Straight Eight Limousine
with a body most likely by Freestone & Webb. The car seems to have
been in regular use as recently as 1971. Daimler cars were also used by
British Royal Family as primary means of transport until an incident
with transmission in 1950.
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