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Puzzling photos received from Len
Huff (UK) who has been researching the English auto coach-builder E.D.
Abbott Ltd (1929-1972), preceded by Page & Hunt Ltd (1915-1929), and
is writing the company's history. The photo shows two similar cars advised
to him as Delage 1924, built by P&H. Can we confirm? - - Ignoring
bodies, pictures do not fit Delage pictures in my collection nor with any
on internet, as there are definite creases in the bonnet a-la
Buick/Packard etc. Various ID pointers say this is a cca 1923 Packard Six
Saloon.
Your pictures do not fit with any pictures of Delages I have in my
collection nor with any Delages I have been able to find on the internet.
Your pictures have a definite creases in the bonnet a-la Buick/Packard
etc. On both photos they seem to extend into the scuttle. All my Delage
pictures seem to have just a rounded side to the bonnet which match a
rounded rad. Perhaps the unusual wheeltrims and wheelhubs suggested Delage
as there is just a slight similarity. A number of US cars had variations
on similar creases to Packard but do not fit exactly.
I had circulated the photos amongst some of our experts and we seem
to agree on a smaller Packard of cca 1923/4. For further amplifications we
mention below a part of an email from one of our experts:
A montage of fronts of
two ‘British’ Packard Six, one yours, does show the visual
similarities between a known Packard and your Packard. The 1923 Packard
Six seem to have had 28 louvres, which is as per the photo, as does the
shape of the bonnet and the shape of the mudguards; only difference is
battery rather than spare tyre. Headlamps are marginally different by
country and sidelights are on the wings rather than on scuttle as required
by British Law. Three of our experts agree the car is a Packard. For
further am
….the only car that really fits with the shape of the bonnet (hood) is a
Packard. Attached details from a 1923 scrapbook. The images are not that
clear, but obviously the wheels are similar (the only cars in the
scrapbook with this type of wheels. The shorter bonnet cars (like the
English photo ones) must have had either a single or double 6, but I
wouldn't know how you could discriminate between these just on the basis
of the outside. Important id feature for American cars is always the
louvre part, which is identical (size and spacing of louvres; shape and
location of the side lid); and also the shape and location of the hood
clasps which seem to be identical too. Finally the hand grips on the side
of the bonnet are similar. So, concluding: a Packard single
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1923 Packard Limousines
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