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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
c1908 Russell Delivery Van
Photo sent in by Mark Dawber
(New Zealand)
of car in Christchurch. -- Primary
ident feature is a just visible housing on side of bonnet. Fascinating
reply from Ariejan Bos that this may be a high end cca
1908 Russell, built
in Toronto Canada by Russell Motor Car Co with specific sales office in New Zealand and Oz. The Delivery Van body may be local. In
1907 they had a 40HP model an 1908 a 50HP. Car making sold to Willys
Overland 1916 but RMCC lasted as machine parts to mid 1950s.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1900
Daimler 6 HP Char-a-Banc
Earlier photo posted on the Rootschat forum by
Jacqueline Cox (UK) who
is trying to determine the make of the vehicle. --
Lovely period photo of a relatively
unusual coachwork body on an expensive
chassis. This is a
cca 1900 Daimler 6HP 2 cylinder Char-a-banc
which was mentioned in the Daimler
catalogue for 1900. The car has a steering wheel so cannot be earlier
than 1899. Daimler Coventry had purchased Daimler name/patents from
Gottlieb Daimler of Cannstatt, Geremany.
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING:1906
Dolson Touring
Fascinating photo from Facebook sent
to us by our regular contributor Mark Dawber (New Zealand)
who is trying
to identify the vehicle. --
Radiator very Wolseley type but forward steering bar. Licenece
plate indicated New York cca 1911. We had started researching it
when Varun Coutinho, an occasional contributor, advised it was an
extremely rare 1907 Dolson. Our experts agree but smaller size rad
suggests a cca
1906 Dolson 2 cylinder Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1907
Rexette 5HP Forecar
Interesting photo sent to the Rootschat
forum by Phodgetts (UK) who
has come across a family album and is trying to determine more about
it. -- Some
discussion if reg is AD or AO. AD is is Gloucester CC cca 1907, and AO
is Cumberland CC cca 1910. The vehicle is a Rexette
Tricar manufactured
by the Rex Motor Manufacturing Co of Coventry 1903 to 1906. This three
wheeler is a single seater forecar which suggests that the Gloucester
AD registration is more likely than the 1910 Cumberland.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1907
Darracq 10'12 Double Phaeton
Earlier photo posted on the Rootschat forum by
Toby Webb (UK) who
is trying to determine the registration and the make of the vehicle. --
AX is Monmoutshire, SE Wales. Close study
suggests registration is AX 244, not 24, so not a very early one.
Car make suggested as Armstrong Whitworth, also not so. The car has a
radiator that is reminiscent of the British Wolseley but is in fact a
cca 1907 Darracq 10'12 Double Phaeton. Originally French from Suresnes.
Became British manufacturer in 1905.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:c1907
Argyll 10'12 Tourer
Puzzling photo dated 1908 sent to the
Rootschat forum by Vimto (UK) who
is trying to determine the owner of vehicle. Help on year and car would
be appreciated. -- Car
is relatively easy as it is a cca 1907/8 Argyll
Tourer, probably the 10’12
made in Scotland. Registration is more complex as HA1 officially is
Liverpool CBC June 1925. Our Vintage Registrations expert Nicholas
Young believes it was GIM or Trade
Plate used as 'standard number' which should have had the hyphen K-A
-1.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
c1917 National Highway Six Phaeton
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Not a very clear photo so
identification difficult. Car in photo does not have front brakes.
Close-up study of radiator front suggests upward pointed curves of a
relatively unusual car from Indianapolis being a cca
1917 National Highway Six Sport Phaeton.
Company operated 1900 to 1924.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1917 Ford Model T Center Door Sedan
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Much of the car is obscured but enough
to see no front springs, so that it is a Ford Model T. It has a rounded
bonnet so must be post 1916 and has the interesting two door 'Center
Door' body introduced at that time; so
cca 1917+ Ford Model T Center Door Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1918 Dodge Brothers Model 30 Touring
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Rather poor quality photo which we
have not been able to improve much. Our Mark Dawber in NZ had spotted pointers
like lights forward of rad, no bonnet louvres, casing rear of running
board, etc, which suggest this was a cca
1918 Dodge Brothers Model 30 Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1919 Oldsmobile 37 A Touring
Another interesting photo received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
saying he has another from Montana. C 1916? --
Close study of the photo shows that the registration is about readable
and that it says 'MONT 19' which means the plate was issued in
Montana in 1919, not 1916. Car has a horseshoe radiator with a flat
face made by a company started by Ransom E Olds 1897 making the 'Curved
Dash'. Became General Motors. He left 1904 to form REO. This is a
cca
1919 Oldsmobile 37 A Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1925
Dodge Standard Touring
Another interesting photo received
from Giorgio Tardi (Italy)
who took it in Madeira during some sort of a Classic Car Run. Can we
tell him what it was? -- There
seems an active old car movemnt in Madeira despite it being a small
off-shore island. Trick of light suggests sloping bonnet but not. This
car is unusual being American having split rim disc wheels and suicide
rear doors. Mark Dawber advised it has a painted radiator shell not
nickel, probably a cca
1925 Dodge Standard Touring.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1925 Willys Knight Model 65 Sedan
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Very awkward angle but the bonnet top seems
to be a bit wavy and side at a bit of an angle: Packard, Buick or
maybe Willys-Knight? Our Mark Dawber in NZ had spotted a few pointers
which suggest this is a cca
1925 Willys Knight Model 65 Sedan.
Probably right!
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1925 Buick Six
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Not much of the car to see and and
also dating part of numberplate is obscured. It does however have a
distinctive radiator headlamp & badge which date it post 1923 into
the 1924/5 period. Not possible to be sure on the model or body style,
but is a cca
1925 Buick.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1928 Chevrolet Type AB Cabriolet
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. This one is relatively easy if you
know that this type of radiator and bade was in use for only a very
short time. This car was made by a company co-founded by a Swiss Racing
Driver and a William Durrant who had been ousted from General Motors
1910. This is a rather nice cca 1928 Chevrolet Type AB
Cabriolet, with convertible roof.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1930
Berliet VIL Saloon
Another interesting photo received
from Giorgio Tardi (Italy)
who took it in Madeira during some sort of a Classic Car Run. He
thought it was French wandered as to make and year? --
Lovely photo which shows the car off well
but did not initially help at all. It was not any of the usual French
suspects and our French Member did not recognise it. Very much
searching later it turns out it is an unusual cca
1930 Berliet VIL Saloon. Berliet
started in 1899, cars stopped 1939. Busses became Renault '74.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1934 Chevrolet DA Roadster
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. We think this may be a posed 'saucy' photograph.
The lady under car is very scantily dressed in a backless gown and
unconcerned that she is showing her knickers. The car is quite
glamorous being cca
1934 Chevrolet DA Roadster with a
dickey/rumble. (Now
see below!)
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1934 Chevrolet DA Roadster
Subsequently
advised was discovered photo was NOT posed and that the knickers were
not aware of being photographed. Photo shows a relative who had gone
swimming to Applegate and on the return trip found that her
exhaust/muffler fell off. The lady in question was under the car trying
to fix it, with female friend and daughter in the car and in the
rumble/dickey. It seems it was the little girl's sister who was taking
the photo without anybody knowing. ...But was 'the only photo of car'!
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1933
Citroen Rosalie Saloon
Cinema screen grab taken from a French film "
Las Douleur" (Memoir of War) made in 2017 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. World War Two Liberation of France, but under German occupation,
and how a young wife copes with it. --
Recognisably French from the location of the numberplate on top of the
trunk boot but always difficult to name make from the back. The handle
on top of the trunk to lift the lid up with and encased spare suggest
this is cca
1933 Citroen Rosalie Saloon.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1934 Renault Monaquatre Boulangere
Cinema screen grab taken from a French film "
Las Douleur" (Memoir of War) made in 2017 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. World War Two Liberation of France, but under German occupation,
and how a young wife copes with it. --
It looks a slightly modified vehicle from original as it seems to be a
minibus and to have windows (?). Originally it would have had open
sides and back with canvass flaps tied down. It would have been cca 1934
Renault Monaquatre Boulangere bakers
van.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1936 Peugeot_301T Camionnette
Cinema screen grab taken from a French film "
Las Douleur" (Memoir of War) made in 2017 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. World War Two Liberation of France, but under German occupation,
and how a young wife copes with it. --
From the higher placed headlights, this is a French vehicle produced
between 1932 and 1936 as part of the Peugeot 301 series of cars, vans
and pickups. This is a cca
1936 Peugeot_301T Camionnette, 35 bhp
four-cylinder water-cooled engine unit of 1465 cc.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
c1936 Plymouth P2 Ddeluxe Sedan
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Photo featuring women, seemingly very
pleased with themselves! The grille had an after-market protector and
headlamp stalks have embellishers. In the UK this would have been a
Chrysler Wimbledon, but as this is presumably Montana, it is a sideways
c1936
Plymouth P2 Deluxe Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1937
DKW F7 Two-door Saloon
Cinema screen grab taken from a German
Documentary film " ZDF-zeit", amateur footage taken in summer
of 1939 about private life under Nazi regime. --
A two-cylinder two-stroke enngined front wheel drive car made by the
Dampf-Kraft-Wagen company in Chemnitz, later East
Germany, which in 1932 merged with Audi, Horch and Wanderer to form
Auto Union. This has a single block of small louvres so a
cca 1937 DKW
F7 Two-door Saloon, but photo unclear if Reich.. or Meisterclasse.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1938
NSU_Fiat 508C Cabriolet
Cinema screen grab taken from a German
Documentary film " ZDF-zeit", amateur footage taken in summer
of 1939 about private life under Nazi regime. --
At first glance it would seem to be an Italian Fiat 508 C Balilla, or
perhaps the the French valiant the Simca 8, but as this was filmed in
1939 Germany it was probably the NSU-Fiat built in Heilbrom, purchased
by NSU in 1929. So this is probably a cca
1938 NSU_Fiat 508C Cabriolet. Some
6,000 508C cars were built 1934-1941.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1938 Ford Half
Ton Pickup
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Lovely photo of a neat little pickup.
Looks like a custom rear. These vehicles are relatively rare and were
made for only two years which helps with relatively accurate dating,
They did not resemble the car line of the same period. This is a cca
1938 Ford Half Ton Pickup.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1941 Buick Super Convertible Coupe
Another from a batch of interesting photos received
from Mike Sanders (USA)
from Montana which they have not been able to identify. "This
is just too much fun. We appreciate all you do." --
Thanks for the compliment. Front of the car is missing but there
is a distinctive chrome embellishment on the rear mudguard rather
than on the spat covering the wheel arch, to confirm this is a cca
1941 Buick 56C Super Convertible Coupe.
David Buick founded the Autocar company in 1897,
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