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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 photo 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:
Page140
below relates to enquiries received
during
2019 Click
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SVVS HELP PAGES have some 3,000 Enquiries
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1907
Enfield 15HP Tourer
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify the
vehicle posted on Facebook page. It is an Enfield, but what date.
Location is Cambridge, in Waikato, North Island. --
Distinctive badge of a sideways cannon
as used by Royal Enfield bicycles and Motorcycles. This type of
radiator shape was used for only a short period on the cca
1907 Enfield Tourer which came in 15HP
and a 25HP version. Soon after in 1908, Enfield was taken over by
Alldays & Onions as Enfield-Alldays.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1907
Alldays & Onions 10'12 Tourer
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify the
vehicles posted on New Zealand Facebook page of a Mr William Dalziel
and family of Marlborough and their 1908 Alldays and Onions. --
Alldays and Onions were a Birmingham
engineering/motorcycle company that went into cars in 1898. This one
has seven louvres on the forward part of bonnet so is middle size
model, mainstay 1906 to 1913, a cca
1907 Alldays & Onions 10'12 Tourer.
Became Enfield-Allday 1908.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1910
Wolseley Siddeley 16'20
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify the
vehicle posted on a Facebook page. Taken in Nelson at
opening of new library in Hardy St, 1912. Several Nelson streets
relate to Admiral Nelson and Battle of Trafalgar. Wolseley Siddeley? --
Small indistinct photo so difficult to be sure but has right bonnet,
right bonnet handle, flush upright windscreen, and 12 spoke wheels
suggesting the popular cca
1910 Wolseley Siddeley 16'20. Seems
body is an open drive Landau.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1910
Napier 15 HP Landaulette
While researching we chanced on previously
helped EdinPhoto website where two photos entitled John Menzies Cars
had been posted by Kim Traynor (UK).
One was a Siddeley Deasy. This one ?. -- Forward
track rod so couple experts agree this is cca
1910 Napier 15 HP Landaulette. This
size of vehicle was Napiers' most popular smaller model and was a
popular fleet taxi in London introduced by W&G Du Cross. The 15HP
was available in numerous body styles and was manufactured 1909 to
1914.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Possibly
c1912 Metallurgique Tourer
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify this
vehicle posted on a Facebook page. Photo is of Floods in Greymouth 14
December 1914. Vauxhall or Siddeley-Deasy, or ?? --
Hand coloured photo but far too little detail visible to be absolutely
sure. Looks a sloping bullnosey type rad with filler cap. Does not look
British. My thoughts were Mellaurgique
or early Chevrolet. We have had previous Metalulurgiques there, so this
may be a smaller cca 1912 12CV.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1912
Ford Model T Touring
Two photos received from Helen Hayton (UK)
of her
great great grandfather Dr Thomas S. Morley of Barton upon Humber,
Lincolnshire, 1885-1921; in back seat top photo, front passenger seat
and his chauffeur driving bottom. -- Either
two identical cars, or it is the same car but with registrations 52 apart,
Lindsey Council, 1912. Car/s are, from ribbed billed mudguards, no
drivers door etc. correct for a cca
1912 Ford Model T Touring.
Perhaps a 'corrected' registration error ??
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1913
Praga Grand Tourer
Another interesting photograph well worth sharing on our Help Pages as
a vehicle identification aid to automobile historians, found while
surfing the web researching unknown machinery. Can we name make? --
Made in Prague Czechoslovakia by a company
that was started in 1907 by Ceskomoravská Továrna Na Stroje who took
out a licence from Isotta-Fraschini. This car was own design being a cca
1913 Praga Grand Tourer, sold widely
to Austro-Hungarian forces as staff cars, 335 made.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1913
Siddeley Deasy 18'24 Landaulette
While researching we chanced on previously helped EdinPhoto website where
two photos entitled John Menzies Cars had been posted by Kim Traynor (UK).
Suggested this may be Siddeley Deasy? -- Indeed
a cca
1913 Siddeley Deasy 18'24 Landaulette open
drive limousine with Edinburgh registration S 2673, but no data
available for accurate dating. Gas main-beams, electric side-lamps,
shortish bonnet so likely 4 cylinder 3,300cc. Company became
Armstrong Siddeley 1919 to 1960.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1914
Minerva KK Open Drive Limousine
Lovely photo received from our friend Leif
Holmberg (Sweden)
asking if this was a Vauxhall?
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1913 Prince Henry Vauxhall did have a 'bullnosey' sort of radiator but
with quite distinct flutes; this is quite different.
Sorry wrong country. Not British but Belgian!
This is
cca 1914 Minerva KK Open Drive Limousine (Coupe
de Ville), which had this type of radiator for only a short time, so
not very common. It seems it was available with 14'18'26'38
horsepower Knight sleeve valve engines.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1923
Standard 13.9 SLO4 Tourer
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify this
vehicle posted on a Facebook page. Taken in Spirits Bay, far north of
New Zealand, in the 1930s. Standard SLO? --
Small indistinct photo so difficult to be absolutely sure but with
rounded peaked radiator, flat bonnet, with the radiator matrix going
round the sides, no front brakes, and seemingly no front driver's door,
it is likely a cca
1923 Standard 13.9 SLO4 Tourer, the 2L
version of the 1600 SLO 11.6 (O for overhead).
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1924
Ansaldo 4D Torpedo
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify the
vehicle posted on Facebook page. Taken 1929 and looks like a Delage
DR70 maybe? --
It seems to have a tapering radiator, wider at the bottom rather than
parallel, and seems to have an angular rather than oval badge. My money
is on it being Italian rather than French and it being made by an
armaments manufacturer in cars only 1921-31, a cca
1924 Ansaldo 4D Torpedo hidden by lots
of obscuring camping gear.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1924
Buick Model 35 Touring
Very damaged period photo sent by Marion
to Rootschat Forum (UK) asking for repair, and for dating and
identification of car. Photo may have been taken in Australia. No
identification made so far. --
Most British made cars had the
sidelight on the mudguard; most American cars had them for a while on
the scuttle by the windscreen. As not much of the car can be seen it is
a little difficult to be very precise on model but looks like an
American cca
1924 Buick Model 35 Four Door Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1924
Overland Model 91 Touring
Interesting period photo sent by Marion to Rootschat Forum (UK)
asking for dating and identification of car. Photo may have been taken
in Australia. No identification made so far. --
First indication to origin of the car is the headlamps, drum type, and
wheels, wooden spokes, normally indicating America. Specific indicator
is the enclosed skirt below the radiator which indicates Overland. No
exterior door handles and high headlamp bar indicates a cca
1924 Overland Model 91 Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1924
Sunbeam 14'40 Tourer
Cinema screen grab taken from an Australian
film "Squizzy Taylor" from 1982 where cars are being
investigated by IMCDB. The film is about a small-time hoodlum
Squizzy Taylor who rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne,
Australia in 1920's.
-- The car
is British, made by a Wolverhampton company founded in 1907, becoming
Rootes in 1934 and name dying out only in 1981. Pic is bit dark but
seems to have slight rounded rad bottom so is a cca
1924 Sunbeam 14'40 Tourer.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:c1925
Rover Tourer
Enlarged section of a bigger photo taken in South Wales, UK, sent
to us by Chris Lewis (UK). The
information is needed to work out approximate date of this old
photograph. --
Indistinct photo, little detail visible, cannot make out the
registration so it is not possible to date it accurately. Radiator is
relatively wide, the sidelamps relatively large, scuttle is rounded,
and car is earlier medium size, many models, so most probably cca
1925 Rover Tourer, a 14'45 or larger
engined 16'60.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1925 Ceirano
14HP Torpedo
Cinema screen grab taken from an Australian
film "Squizzy Taylor" from 1982 where cars are being
investigated by IMCDB. The film is about a small-time hoodlum
Squizzy Taylor who rises to prominence and popularity in Melbourne,
Australia in 1920's. --
Not a big car with smallish wheels and Italian flavour. Picture is very
dark and indistinct but the the badge is oval with large lettering and
the headlamps are on stalks. This looks like a cca 1925 Ceirano
14HP Torpedo, possibly S150.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1928
Chenard Walcker 10CV
Another puzzling photo received from from
Georges Truffaut (Belgium)
of a vehicle he is trying to identify. "Do you have any idea of
the brand of the car in the picture coming from France. -- Distinctive
oval radiator with winged badge is a feature of the French Paris based
manufacturer Chenard-Walcker who were the first ever winner of the Le
Mans 24 hour in 1923. This is from only a few years later being a
fabric covered cca
1928 Chenard Walcker 10CV Conduite Interieure.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1929
Mercedes Benz Nurburg Saloon
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify this vehicle
which he thinks may be an Italian Fiat 519 or 525. --
We have our doubts it is either. This was quite a poular 'look' for a
big car at the time and many manufacturers had a version including
Fiat, NSU ets. From details such as knock-on hubs, side and head
lights, couple of screws above the rear kick plate, squarish back etc,
this is an early cca 1929 Mercedes Benz 460 Nurburg W08 Limousine,
possibly a Pullman.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1929
Peerless 6-61 Sedan
Lovely photo received from Larry Gardner (Canada)
saying this car is in a barn abut
40 miles for Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Owner has no idea of the model.
Thought it could be identified by front grill. -- Humpy
type of radiator top not in out system so got help from our Americans
expert Mark Dawber who
presumed 1929, as per the plate, and it is a
Peerless. Peerless did some lower price cars near the end of their time
and this looks like their lowest price model,
cca 1929 Peerless Mod. 6-61 Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:c1934
Leyland Cub Mobile Workshop
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify the
vehicle posted on Facebook page. Seems a public works department truck.
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This is a cca 1934 Leyland Cub Mobile Workshop Truck from the K Series
built at Leyland's Ham factory between 1931 and 1939 (not to be
confused with the later CU series busses built 1979-1987). Subsequent research
suggests this one seems to have been used in New Zealand on the
Mangahao Electric Power Scheme near town of Shannon.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1936
Tempo Model D Van
Cinema screen grab taken from a German
film "Es war einmal in Deutschland" (Bye Bye Germany) made in
2017 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB. The film is about
one of a group of holocaust survivors wish to go to America but being
deprived of savings overtaken by shady past.
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Commercial three-wheeler built by Vihal & Sohn of Hamburg, founded
1924. This one is a cca
1936 Tempo Model D, available with 200
or 400cc engines. 1977 purchased by Daimler Benz.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1937
Mercedes Benz 540K Sport Saloon
Another grainy photo received from from
Georges Truffaut (Belgium)
of a car he is trying to identify. "Do you have any idea of the
brand of the car in the picture coming from France. -- Distinctive
radiator and exposed exhaust pipes coming out of the side of a twin
louvred bonnet, and body being a two door closed coupe. Has to be a cca
1937 Mercedes Benz 540K Sport Saloon. Development
of the 500 with supercharged straight 8, 5.4L. Only 406 cars made
1936-39. Recent sale UK £530,000.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Unknown
Conversion to Petrol Power
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify vehicle posted on Facebook. --
Puzzling photo which seems to
depict a steam car very similar to a cca 1902 Locomobile Stanhope
B, but which has a hole in the rear side of the bodywork which is
consistent with starting a petrol car. Our Ariejan Bos thinks
this may be later
conversion from steam to petrol
as the 'steam ware'
is not visible. The petrol tank / overflow pipe seems built into the
front part of the body.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Unknown
Motorcycle Combination
Last year we received couple of photos from
Egypt relating to the Great Grandfather of Simon Burgess (UK)
who was based in Egypt between 1921 and 1930. --
Our vintage motorcycle sleuth Chas
Moody identified that motorcycle as a cca 1926 Rudge-Whitworth 500cc
OHV. This picture is far too small, and from the back, to pull out any
details, but as it has a different
(later) registration it
is probably a different machine, with exhaust smoke showing, and with a
different more sporty sidecar.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Unknown Two-Seater
Sidecar Taxi
Our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) is trying to identify the
interesting Unknown
Two-Seater Sidecar Combination Taxi
posted on Facebook. --
Interesting photo which advises it
was taken at a 'recent' London Olympia Motor Cycle Show, but is
undated. Motorcycle looks British. Our Chas Moody has gone through all
his books and says BAT and NUT both had round tanks, twin cylinder
engines, and look a bit alike. BAT also made sidecars! Electric lights
mid 1920s? HELP PLEASE!
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