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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:
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1902
Daimler Rear_Entrance_Ronneau
Interesting period photo received from Hillary Roach (UK)
working on family tree has found photos and glass slides of
Grandfather's cars. This the oldest posed beside the big stones of the
Neolithic Standing Stones at Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain in UK, --
Car is an early British Daimler registered at Kent County Council in
1904, but our Ariejan Boss thinks it is an earlier built
pre-UK-registration cca 1902 Daimler 12HP Rear Entrance Tonneau
cars. CLICK
TO READ EARLY UK DAIMLER HISTORY.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1904
Panhard Levassor Berline Kellner
Another interesting photo from a forum of old photos and asking
for information on the vehicle. -- One website
suggested a French c1906 CGV, made in USA. Our veterans expert Ariejan
Bos and his incredible records advised this is indeed French, but is a cca
1904 Panhard Levassor Berline de Voyage,
with a body by Kellner, built for Prince Orloff of Russia, who
introduced the Tsar to motoring, shown at the 1903 Paris salon. It was
hit by a tram a year later. SEE
MORE HISTORY.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1906
Speedwell 6HP Two-Seater
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos and asking for information
on the make of vehicle? -- 'British'
'assembled' car with French Lacose Battmain origin, probably with a De
Dion Engine or Gnome engine. Confusing history; two initial main sizes
with that pointed rad, a 6hp single and 10HP twin; some with louvres
some without; normally a 6 was a two seater, a 10 a four seater; so
this is probably a cca
1906 Speedwell 6HP Two-Seater.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1906
Daimler 30'40 HP Tourer
Interesting period photo received from Hillary Roach (UK)
working on family tree has found photos and glass slides of
Grandfather's cars cluding glass slides. --This
is one of two photos of the same cca
1906 Daimler 30'40 HP Tourer,
registered at Kent County Council late 1905, which, interestingly, is
white in this photo (cream coloured), but is black in the next photo.
Also, the received positive of this photo had been flipped
horisontaly. Now turned the correct way round to read reg.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1906
Daimler 30'40 HPTourer
Interesting period photo received from Hillary Roach (UK)
working on family tree has found photos and glass slides of
Grandfather's cars. -- This is one of two photos
of the same cca
1906 Daimler 30'40 HP Tourer,
registered at Kent County Council late 1905, which is black in this
photo, but is white in the previous photo. The location of the
photograph is John O'Groats Hotel in furthermost north of British
Isles, Tip North East Scotland, being opposite south's Lands End in
Cornwall.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1908
FIAT 20'25 Limousine
Interesting period photo received from Hillary Roach (UK)
working on family tree has found photos and glass slides of
Grandfather's cars cluding glass slides. -- One
of the later cars, no registration visible to help with dating. Car is
of Italian origin, made in Turin by Fabbrica Italiana Automomobili di
Torino, opened 1900 and largest in Italy by 1910, with American factory
in Ploughkeepsie, New York. Confirmed by our Ariejan Bos as a cca
1908/9 FIAT, chain drive so at least
20'25HP.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1910
Belsize 14'16 Tourer
I Interesting period a family photo received from Peter Evans (UK)
of his great uncle by a car in 1910. Not been able to identify
car but has been confirmed as not a Wolseley. --
Photo is of an English car and there are not many with a tall
relatively pointed radiator. Front wing hides rad, I thought perhaps a
Humber, but Ariejan Bos confirmed it is from another midlands company
being a cca
1910 Belsize 14'16 Tourer, 2543 cc
four; from Manchester's first car manufacturer founded in 1897
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1910
Coanda 'Jet Powered' Sledge
Very puzzling photo taken by Jules Beau at the 1910 Automobile
Salon, Paris, of 'jet
powered sledge' built by the Romanian Henri Coanda who had
exhibited at 1910 Paris Air Show a very unique Turbo-Propulseur
Sesquiplane airplane, being the first and only machine with forward
flight propulsion without a propeller, first jet. The
sledge was ordered for the Russian Tsar experimenting with half
tracks, It is believed that the plane never flew, and that sledge
was not a jet.
SEE MORE HISTORY
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1910
Flanders 20 Two-seater Runabout
Another interesting photo from a forum of old photos and asking for
information on the make of vehicle; possible 1911 Flanders 20. -
Can confirm from the two nuts on the face of radiator header tank and
from the starting handle going through the bottom of the radiator
surround that this is an early 1910
Flanders 20 Two-seater Runabout.
Flanders only lasted two years. In 1911 they added a three sear
runabout and a coupe, as well as a Tourer. All cars were sold via
Studebaker dealers.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1910
Leon Bollee 28hp Limousine
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series "Number
10" made in 1983 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB. Story
is about the personal and political lives of seven British Prime
Ministers during their occupancy of 10 Downing Street. --
Car was made by Frenchman Leon Bollee, son of bellfounder Amedee Bollee
who was 1892 into steam cars. Leon started with three-wheeler forecars
in 1898. This is a cca
1910 Leon Bollee 28hp Limousine manufactured
at factory in le Mans.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1911
Argyll 15HP Landaulette
Interesting period photo received from Ian Davidson (UK)
taken 1920 in village in Dumfriesshire, where uncle ran a “garage”
doing bikes to tractors, and a lot for Earl of Buccleugh, Lairds car -
or local taxi? Napier of Wolseley? -- Not an
English car but a Scottish car. Registration is Kirkcudbright CC on the
river Dee in southern Scotland and the car is an Alexandria built cca
1911 Argyll 15HP Landaulette, after an
earlier bankruptcy. Probably at £435 a bit expensive for a then local
taxi cab.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1911
Opel 5'12HP Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos and asking for information
on the make of vehicle? -- Photo was taken in
High Street, Hawera, which was a seaside military base 1866 on the
southern side of New Zealand's North Island. Hawera translated 'burnt
place' where one Maori tribe set light to another's sleeping house.
Later the military base burnt too. Caron right front is German cca
1911 Opel 5'12HP Tourer, possibly
two-seater
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1911
Opel 8'20 Doppoelphaeton
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series "Number
10" made in 1983 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB. Story
is about the personal and political lives of seven British Prime
Ministers during their occupancy of 10 Downing Street. --
Car was made by a sewing machine maker, then penny farthings joined s
locksmith and built first car in 1899 in Russellsheim, Germany. This is
a cca 1911
Opel 8'20 Doppoelphaeton. Later made
rockets. 1931 part of General Motors.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1914
Talbot 20'50 Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos and asking for information
on the make of vehicle? -- Grand British
car made in London, French Clement Bayard history, owned by the earl of
Shrewsbury and Adolpe Clement to WW1. From the size of the vehicle this
is one of their bigger just pre-WW1 cars, a
cca
1914 Talbot Tourer, either a20'40 or
the 25'50. Company became STD (Sunbeam Talbot Darracq) and later Rootes,
now PSA.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1914
Scania Vabis 2S Parcel Van
Our Publicity Officer Tony Russell
(UK)
seems to be on the lookout for photos of unusual cars, and wondered if
we knew what this one was ? -- Very
unusual vehicle built in Sodertalje after the Swedish companies Vabis,
making railway wagons, and Scania, making cars, merged in 1911. This
vehicle is a cca
1914 Scania Vabis 2S Parcel Van of the
Royal Swedish Post Office, 16'20HP 2,270 cc four. Only 12 of this type
were built. Earlier cars had a horseshoe radiator, later had more
pointed rad.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1914 De Dion Bouton EJ2 Two-Seater
Interesting period photo received from our French member Michel
Gosset (UK) who got the photo from a
friend while on holiday in Frame. Do we know what it is as neither
could identify it? -- Quick look suggests a
pre WW1 French De
Dion Bouton but bit small? Ariejan Bos
advises, judging by the length of the bonnet, this car could be the
smallest of the line, a 2 cylinder model EJ (model EJ-2). There
was also a 4 cylinder, the EJ-4, but that car seems to be larger than
this one.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:Possibly
1924 Premier 6D Roadster
Very puzzling photo received from John McLean who used to be
Curator for the Motor Museum of Western Australia, which he had
received in turn from a colleague who had not been able to identify it,
and John likewise. We had helped previously so he thought he would try
us. -- The photo has done the circuit round the
world a couple of times since, seen by many experts but no positive
identification so far, but we think it may be American cca1924 Premier
6D Roadster. SEE MORE HISTORY
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1928
Renault 10HP Fourgon
Cinema screen grab taken from a French silent film "Madam
Colibri" made in 1929 towards the end of the 'silent' era, where
cars are being investigated by IMCDB.-- The story
is about an aging Baroness fed up with her dull husband and her
luxurious life in Paris, chases dashing Legionnaire officer to deserts
of Sahara. The vehicle is French with a coalscuttle bonnet, a scuttle
radiator with rounded edges and an open drive cab dating this a
cca 1928 Renault 10HP Fourgon delivery
van.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1928
Chrysler Plymouth Model Q Sedan
Batch of photos of a derelict car received from Gill Meilleur of
Winnipeg (Canada) asking if we can
identify vehicle. - Car introduced by Walter
Chrysler in Maddison Square Gardens, driven in by Ameillia Earhart in
July 1928, as smaller car to compete in lower price bracket with Ford
and Chevrolet. This is a cca
1928 Chrysler Plymouth Model Q Four Door Sedan,
2.8L 45HP four cylinder, with three speed gearbox. The Chrysler prefix
was soon dropped, and Plymouth became volume seller to 2001.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1929
Essex Six Sedan
Interesting period photo received from Hillary Roach (UK)
working on family tree has found photos and glass slides of
Grandfather's cars. -- This is one of the most
recent cars, photo of photo, car American origin, plain type rad
surround and confirmed by our Mark Dawber as a cca
1929 Essex Six Sedan. Essex was
separate brand made by Hudson of Detroit, USA,, this one probably
assembled from 'knock down kit' by UK subsidiary. Car was registered in
early 1929 with West Sussex C C.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1930
Essex Six Sedan
Interesting period photo received from Hillary Roach (UK)
working on family tree has found photos and glass slides of
Grandfather's cars. -- This is one of the most
recent cars, photo of photo, car American origin, plain type rad
surround and confirmed by our Mark Dawber as a
cca 1929 Essex Six Sedan. Essex was
separate brand made by Hudson of Detroit, USA,, this one probably
assembled from 'knock down kit' by UK subsidiary. Car was registered in
early 1930 with London C Council.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1933
Volvo 654 Saloon
Cinema screen grab taken from German film
"Moa" made 1986 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Life story of Swedish feminist writer Moa Martinson.Two youngest
children drowned falling through lake ice 1925 and husband
committed suicide 1928. She remarried then divorced; She died in 1964
at age 73. -- Car in picture is local
product of a Gotthenburg car company founded 1927. Just visible
radiator, chrome horns and spare wheel which advise this is a cca
1933 Volvo 654 Saloon
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1936
Plymouth Sedan
Cinema screen grab taken from German film
"Moa" made 1986 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Life story of Swedish feminist writer Moa Martinson.Two youngest
children drowned falling through lake ice 1925 and husband committed
suicide 1928. She remarried then divorced; She died in 1964 at age 73. --
Dim picture of front only which shows a split waterfall type of grille
which goes down to below the top of the bumper bar suggesting American
cca 1936 Plymouth Sedan.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1949
Wendax WL 250 Lieferdreirad
Cinema screen grab taken from German film "Vaterrtag"
(Father's Day) made 1955 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story is about a business where husband grooms and wife trains dogs. --
The business owns a very unusual vehicle which is a cca
1949 Wendax WL 250 Lieferdreirad with
ICO engine of 6.5HP. Three-wheelers were manufactured 1932-38 and
1948-51. Briefly built four wheel car Type WS with JLO Engines, but bad
press ceased all vehicle production 1951.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
c1977
Dacia1300 Brake Ambulance
Our Publicity Officer Tony Russell (UK)
seems to be on the lookout for photos of unusual cars, and wondered if
we knew what this one was ? -- Obviously a
small ambulance, designed on the Renault 12 TS Estate Brake chassis,
this one built in later period between 1970 and 2006, in either France,
or any of the other 17 countries in which the Renault 12 was made,
including Romania. If so, a cca
1977 Dacia_1300_Brake Ambulance, 1.4L
Four FWD. Over 2.5 million Renault 12 variants made.
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