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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1893 Duryea Buggy
While recently browsing through vintage car
websites came across the East Riding Vintage Motor Vehicle Page on which
was an unidentified vehicle photo from the collection of Bill Melander (UK).
Can advise the car is cca
1895 Duryea which was built by
brothers, J. Frank and Charles E. Duryea in Springfield, Massachusetts,
USA. An 1895 Duryea won America's first motor race and two cars
apparently came to the UK on the London to Brighton
Emancipation run on the 14th November 1896.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1898 Decauville Voiturette
Fascinating set of photographs received
from Mrs. Joan Green from Lancashire (UK). They
are all from an album discovered in her late great aunt's loft.
Being into family history she was hoping it was from her family
from Lancashire, but they all seem to be around London and the Thames so
the album may have been in the loft when my aunt moved into the house.
The name associated with the album is Allvey.
This rather fabulous machine is a
French cca
1898 Decauville Voiturette.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1899 Daimler Tonneau
Another from the fascinating set of
photographs received from Mrs. Joan Green from Lancashire (UK).
They are all from an album discovered in
her late great aunt's loft. The name associated with the album is Allvey.
I guess they must have been quite a well off family because not only did
they have a number of cars at the turn of the century but all the cars
were quality. This impressive vehicle is a cca
1899 Daimler Tonneau. Prince
of Wales (Edward VII) had one in 1900.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1900 Locomobile Locosurrey
Another from the fascinating set of
photographs received from Mrs. Joan Green from Lancashire (UK).
This suggests that the Allvey family were
not only well off, but technically competent. The car shown is, and has
been confirmed by my friend Jim Merrick of the Stanley Museum in USA, as
being an American cca
1900 Locomobile Locosurrey. These were
steam cars. It is interesting to note that the front of the car is
fitted with a condensing radiator which was mandatory for UK
market.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1900 Daimler 6HP
Two Photos received from Yvonne
Tindall (UK) who had
recently been given these photos of her Great Grandfather and
told that these cars are possibly Daimlers. She wondered if we could
identify them or have any information on these cars. She advises that
her Great Grandfather was given this car by Lord Whitbread being
the skipper of his yacht. We can confirm that it is indeed a British cca
1900 Daimler 6HP. As there is no registration, or
is pre-registration, we cannot check if it
survived.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1903 Daimler Phaeton
Another from the fascinating set of
photographs received from Mrs. Joan Green from Lancashire (UK).
This carries on to confirm that the Allvey
family were either very well off or perhaps involved in the posh end of
the motor trade. This rather magnificent car is a cca
1903 Daimler Phaeton, either 14 or 22. Interesting
to note that the sides of the radiator carry the air cooled fins which
were later to move with the radiator to the top and become the
famous fluted Daimler trade mark.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1905 Backdrop Car
We also get some amusing ones. Enquiry
received from Tony Randall (UK) saying:
" Attached is a photo of my G. Grandfather with his two
daughters. The car is real. I cannot be sure if the backdrop is real or
part of a studio outfit. The car reg is J276. I have no idea of the make
or age, although somewhere between 1902 and 1908 would fit." Regret
the whole photo of the Royal Exchange in London is a backdrop.
The car is not real, numberplate is wrong and J reg
is from Durham cca 1905.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1906 Daimler 28/36 HP
Second of the Photos received from Yvonne
Tindall (UK) showing
her Great Grandfather, Charles William Moon. Her Great
Grandfather was skipper of Lord Whitbread’s yacht and bought into a
syndicate which built yachts in Nova Scotia and sailed them to England
to sell once they were broken in. She understands that this made CW Moon’s
fortune allowing him to commission the larger car, having been given the
smaller. This car is also a British cca
1904/5 Daimler, probably a 28/36.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1907 Rover 8HP & Dickey
Lovely period photo received from Emeritus
Professor Alan Davison of Newcastle University (UK)
working on a local history project and has
been given a photo of a car that is said to be only the third in Morpeth.
The owner was an architect called C.F. Murphy but they would really like
to get the date and make. Car has a Northumberland registration
but no records to date accurately. The car is cca
1907 Rover 8HP with Dickey, and so are
the fashions. Unusual body with a full height
door.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1911 Humber Combination
Photo received from Michael W George
(UK) wondering if we
can help him identify the Motorcycle on which the DVLA hold no records
and that may never have been registered with them. The rider/driver was
a successful Engineering factory owner, Herbert G W Newey. He thinks
that the flat tank motorcycle sidecar photo was taken in 1910. Our
motorcycle expert Geoff Morris has identified the motorcycle a
1910/12 Humber Combination. H
7673 was a Middlesec CC registration.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1912 Riley 10/12
Another photo received from Bob Kellock (UK)
which was found in a family album.
The car could have belonged to his
grandfather who was known as being an early motoring enthusiast. He had
a Swift and a Hupmobile. Bob's uneducated guess is that this car
is a Crossley - the little girl could be his mother. Sorry wrong
again, on the car, so hopefully the guess is right on the mother. The
round bonnet is indicative of a cca
1912 Riley, possibly 10/12. Very pretty car and child.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1914 Adler 12/30
Our Dutch correspondent Fer Cools (Holland) who
often sends us very interesting photographs, provided us with
this one of a car at a railway crossing near the town of Pey.
We are pretty sure this is a German cca
1914 Adler, possibly a 12/30. Adler
(meaning Eagle) commenced in 1853
by making bicycles, wire wheels and typewriters. Cars commenced in
Frankfurt 1900 using De Dion engines. Well into racing by 1914, 6000
employees by 1928. Motorbikes later, and typewriters / copiers
today.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1914 Crossley 20/25
Lovely portrait photo received from Louise
Udall-Waring (UK)
dating to 1918 that has an ancestor sitting on a car front. She was
curious about the model and make of car. We felt that we knew the make
so contacted Malcolm Asquith of the Crossley
Register who confirmed the model. This car is a cca
1914 Crossley 20/25. Crossley were much into supplying the
WW1 military, primarily the Royal Flying Corps, but also the army,
with staff cars, ambulances, light trucks and
light tenders.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1914 Calcott 10.5 Light Car
Photo received from Bob Kellock (UK)
which was found in a family
album. The car could have belonged to his grandfather who was known as
being an early motoring enthusiast. The original pic is tiny which
accounts for the lack of clarity. He also didnt think he would have
fancied riding in the rear "dickey seat"! He would be
interested to learn anything about it. The car is a cca
1914 Calcott 10.5HP Light Car,
1460cc four, made 1913-1917, bodied by others. Radiator similar to
Standard.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1914 Duerkopp Taxi perhaps
Photo received from Juha Kaitanen from Turku
(Finland) requesting identification and
asking if it was a Mercedes. Not
really. The body is the popular 'Tulip' type body made by many Austrian
and German companies 1910 to 1920. My thoughts were Austrian because the
two little sub lights below the main headlamps. Puch Alpenwagen had
similar radiator features. Or Steyr, Austro-Daimler or Austro-Fiat who
made taxis. Our Bryan Goodman suggested it was a German Duerkopp.
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INTERESTING
VEHICLE: cca
1920 Eric Campbell Two Seater
Photo from Ken Tate (UK)
trying to find info on "Eric
Campbell" cars and found ours on Help
Page 9. This prompted him to
send photo of Grandfather's car, a politician, taken at South Shields
cca 1920. EC cars were made 1919-21 and later by
Vulcan 1922-26. Coventry Simplex engines, 3 speed gears, ally bodies,
assembled at the Handley Page aircraft factory in Cricklewood. Sporting
programme including two cars in 1919 Targa Florio
caused financial problems. About 500 cars made.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1921 Leyland Eight
Auto-political enquiry from Ian Robertson (Vietnam),
interested in Crossleys and Irish Civil
War, in the form of a photo showing Michael Collins the Commander of the
Irish Free State Army and Emmet Dalton, one of his Generals, outside a
hotel in Bandon, Co. Cork on the day Collins was assassinated. Before we
could tell him it was not a Crossley he had identified that this was the
very rare Leyland
Eight. Only about 15 cars were built
and were compared to the Rolls Royce. One survives.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1925 FIAT Model 501
Some people really like to make our life
hard. Rod Cuff
of Guisborough, Yorkshire (UK) was
in on holiday in Sri Lanka and talked to an elderly gentleman who had a
photo of his mother in front of a car that he said was imported by his
father from Britain into Ceylon in the mid 1920s, and would like to
identify it in the memoirs he is writing. Not much to go on but our Tony
Oakes spotted that it was not British but Italian and the side lamps
under the headlights confirm it to be cca
1925 FIAT 501 SII.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1929 Trojan Tourer
We had an earlier photo from Brian Legg (UK)
asking for identification of the car based on just a rear
wheel ! We failed, suggesting it may have been the rear of a
mid range commercial vehicle, or a charabanc, of the late 1920s. We have
now received another photo of the same car showing a bit more of the
bodywork. Photo is very grainy and unclear but our Tony Oakes suggested
it was probably a Trojan. Much diligent searching later, we can
confirm that the car is cca
1929 Trojan Tourer.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1931 Wolseley Hornet
Another photo received from Bob Kellock (UK)
which was found in a family
album. The car could have belonged to his grandfather who was known as
being an early motoring enthusiast. Bob's uneducated guess is that
this car is an AJS. Sorry no. The Car is a cca
1931 Wolseley Hornet made during the William Morris years.
Hence similarities to the early MG saloons. Later Morris Motors took
over and made upmarket Morrises under the Wolseley brand. Then
BMC, and was gone by 1975.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1934 Buick Four Door Sedan
Lovely set of photos received from Philippa
Elmhirst (UK) from
an album made by her parents dating from 1938. They had recently been
married in Kenya and decided to cross the Sahara from south to north
(Algeria) in the vehicle shown in these photos. Surviving sister seems
to remember it was a Talbot. Her father added the trunk for
supplies on the mammoth trip. She wants to write this story for her
grandchildren. The Car is in fact American,
and is a cca
1934 Buick Four Door Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1934 Austin Seven Long
Photo received from John Graves (UK).
" Thanks for a wonderful site. Identification of my Grandparents
car please. You can use this photo if you wish. Many thanks in
anticipation." No registration is visible to provide accurate
identification but it can be dated relatively accurately. Exposed
trafficator, square door, wider track, longer wheelbase, more knee
room; the car is a 1934
Austin Seven Long, 747 cc 7HP. Some
63,000 of this model were made, being saloons, tourers and 2
seaters.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1940 Standard Beaverette
Enquiries received separately from Ken
Sapsed and John Allen (UK).
The ATC operated a vehicle known as a Beaverette,
to tow their training gliders, and launch cables, at their flying
schools. A revised history of the ATC is being produced and information
on the derivation of the Beaverette is anxiously sought. We can advise
that this vehicle was instigated by Lord Beaverbrook in WW2. Standard
Motor Company started manufacture in 1940. For excellent article see Standard
website
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: cca
1958 'Surrey 03'
A Series of pictures of a 'rustbucket'
received from Tricia Henderson (USA) found
while clearing yard of their new home. This would have been practically
impossible to identify had I not known
the answer !! The vehicle is known as Surrey
'03 , and it was a replica kit
car made by E W Bliss Company, Canton, Ohio, between 1958 and 1959. It
was based on the 1903 Curved Dash Oldsmobile and fitted with a Cushman
scooter engine with current brakes and lighting, -as a kit or
assembled.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: pre
1900
UNIDENTIFIED
Photo received from Andrew
Rusack, Essex, (UK) who is
hoping we can help to identify the vintage car make and type. The
man in the front passenger seat is the famous golfer Tom Morris. We have
tried to get higher resolution photo, but get no reply. We do not have
enough to go on because it is the detail that provides the
identification. There is a limit on the makes it could be, many of which
were connected at the time; Daimler,
Panhard, MMC or Napier. Any
help much appreciated.
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PHOTOS NOT YET IDENTIFIED:
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H E L P IS NEEDED PLEASE !
As can be seen from our Help Pages we
normally do succeed in identifying practically all vehicle photos which
we receive. Occasionally some photos may take time and very occasionally
we get stuck. Clicking on the photo
on the right opens the page
containing some photos we are yet to crack ! Any
help would be very much appreciated.
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