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:: [ SVVS NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION ASSISTANCE
SERVICE ] ::
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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Below relates to enquiries received during
2023 Click
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SVVS HELP PAGES have some 4,975
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IDENTIFICATION AND
DATING: SVVS
HELP PAGES HIT 5,000 Enquiries
We are very pleased to announce that we
have hit a very important milestone in our service to the
International Web Community by providing our 5,000th identification.
This was reached in December 2023. We would like to thank all
international contributors who have sent us their enquiries, and we
would especially like to thank our team of SVVS experts, our external experts
and also the many international experts who have provided
identifications in last 25 years. Well
Done!!
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5,000th ENQUIRY !!!
5,000th ENQUIRY !!!
5,000th ENQUIRY !!!
5,000th ENQUIRY !!!
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1903
Oldsmobile Curved Dash R
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. -- Rounded front is an indication of the first American
mass produced car, not Ford, but built by Ransome E Olds who had a
number of protypes which burned down with factory. The Curved Dash was
the only one saved and was reverse engineered. This one seems to have wire wheels and mudguards so probably
cca 1903
Oldsmobile Curved Dash Model R
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1907 De Dion Bouton Tourer
Another interesting photo from a forum of old car photos asking
for make of vehicle. -- Elsewhere on this page we
mentioned the New York to Paris Race in 1908. This is from the earlier
1907 Peking to Paris race which had 40 entrants but only five teams
shipped cars to Peking. Winner was a 7L Itala driven by Prince Scipione
Borghese, next was a Dutch Spyker driven by Goddard, and two de
Dion Bouton Cars driven bu Comier and
Collington. The Contal cyclecar was destroyed on route.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1907 Thomas Flyer 6-70 Light Truck
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 as no make is given. -
- No, Sorry, the name is quite clearly shown on the vehicle; hidden in
plain sight. The maker was the winner of the first and only round the
world 'New York to Paris' motor race in 1908. This car is the bigger
brother, a cca
1907 Thomas Flyer 6-70 a Light Truck,
made, as it says on side panel, by E R Thomas Motor Company, READ
MORE..
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1911
Humber 11'20 Tourer
Our Publicity Officer Tony Russell (UK) seems
to be on the lookout for photos of unusual cars, and wondered if we
knew what make this vehicle was which features on a post card? -- Yes, -
This is a British car manufactured in Coventry, - who started out in
bicycles, failed in a bike making monopoly with French companies, and started
cars by making De Dion powered Trikes in 1899. This is a
cca 1911
Humber 11'20 Tourer. Became Rootes
Group>Chrysler>Peugeot
and renamed Talbot.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1911
Talbot 25HP Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. Suggested as Talbot working on model? -
- Indeed a British Talbot which grew out of Aglo-French Clement Talbot
company in 1902 importing Clement Bayard and other makes and Dunlop
tyres. Own cars from 1907. From bonnet hinge and no brass this is
cca 1911 Talbot 25 Tourer, and from
bonnet size too small for 6 cylinder, so likely 4/25HP.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1912
Bedelia BD2 8'10HP Two-seater
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. Is it a Bedelia? - - Made by couple of
students who had motorcycle crash and developed car from bits left
behind. Became sucesful. This is a French cca
1912 Bedelia BD2 8'10HP with a 990cc
V-2 air-cooled. Unique photo as car has hood, which is up, so
possibly this may make it the De Luxe model. Very unusual handle on
side door: for engine or roof?
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1912 Darracq J2 Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. -- Initially we thought an early
French Unic at time when they had high header, but further research
advised this was another French car, a cca
1912 Darracq J2 Tourer. Darracq also
went through a period of many rad designs in this period. The
registration AA 3681 was a Southampton County Council issue of 1912.
Seems to have RAC mascot on rad cap.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1913
Wolseley 19'20 Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. Is it a Wolseley? - - This does indeed
seem a Wolseley of the pre-WW1 period from the appearance of the
bodywork without driver's door and for having acetylene lights. Tall
header tank, no logo, shortish bonnet suggests a four rather than a six
cylinder car, so cca
1913 Wolseley 19'20 Tourer open drive
with rather interesting enclosed rear section.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1913
Barre 8'10 Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. - - The logo on the rad left is
that of Gaston Barre, gunsmith from Pathernay, moved to Niort western
coast making fortune from bicycles. First car in 1899 mainly from
components by others. Engines by Ballot and SCAP. Success in 1912 Tour
de France. This one small rounded rad no front brakes so likely
cca 1913
Barre BA 8'10 Two seater, 1685cc. Gone
1930.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1914
Presto P10 Landaulette
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. Italian? - - Our Ariejan Bos advised
while name is Italian, car was a German
cca 1914/15 Presto probaly P10 10'35 Lifting-roof Landaulette
with the old logo on a newer radiator, a mixture he had not seen
before. The body is a typical example of the German coachbuilding
style, where roundness was fashionable shortly before WW1 like many
other German makes.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1914
Corre La Licorne BV
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. - - To us from the pear shaped rad
this seemed to be a French Gregoire from Paris. Our veterans expert
Ariejan Boss advises however that it does come from Paris, but from
other side, as it is a
cca 1914 Corre la Licorne BV
Tourer. Corre
stared with byciles the trikes as was a racing cyclist in 1895, but had
left the company 1908 and started another Rueil LeCor.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1918 Chanard Walcker Type U Tourer
Another interesting photo from a forum of old car photos asking
for information on the make of vehicle not yet identified. Origin now
lost. -- Car is relatively easy to recognise from
squarish radiator with rounded corners, and 'dimples' being a French
Paris made Chenard & Walcker founded in 1899 to 1946. This seems a
Military Vehicle, and C&W made a 15HP Type U Tourer in a couple of
versions before and during WW1. Company eventually petered out being
taken over 1951 by Peugeot.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1920s Bicycles at the Seaside
Not quite our normal thing as this is a photo of bicycles, -
also unusual in having numbers painted on the tool bag on the saddles.
We asked our cycling guru Chas Moody for his ideas. --
Chas advised that he recently saw a 1960's bicycle that had come from
USA with New Jersey ID stickers on the frame but not plates as such. He
thought the bikes
are of British manufacture that they
were hired when the family were on holiday in Britain. The young men
are not in cycling attire. READ
MORE.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1923
Ford Model T Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicle. - - From transverse front spring this
looks very much like a Model
T Ford which was made for 19 years
without major significant changes. This is a photo of one of the later
ones, one-but-last change 1923-1925, bonnet bit higher and more tapered
with a nickel rather than painted radiator. The registration NR 4409
was issued by Leicester County Council 1923.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1925
Renault Type NN Tourer
Another interesting photo from a forum of car photos asking for
information on the make of vehicle not yet identified. -
- Quick search on the internet suggests this is "Les tunnels de
l'Oeillette, 4ième tunnel?" near Chartreuse on way to the Alps
Switzerland. Car is French and has coalscuttle bonnet, round badge, and
no radiator grilles, so limiting choices. It has rear gill type
vertical louvres and split screen, which confirm it is a cca
1925 Renault Type NN 6CV, probably a
Tourer.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1927 Chevrolet AB Taxi Special
Unusual photo from a forum of old photos asking for identification of
vehicles believed to be in Lviv Ukraine. - The visible vehicles seem to
be Taxis, No idea on second left, but first left is an American
Chevrolet and the badge location in a downward widow's peak position
suggests the year 1927. Either way the badges were different. The body
shape seems 'sedan' until examined in detail when it is a Tourer with a
solid top, 'surrey' style, and add-in removable windows. All quite
unusual
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1931 Buick 50 Touring
Cinema screen grab taken from an American TV mini series
"Dick Tracey" made 1938 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story is based on comic strip character a very bright police
detective in films by RKO, solving gruesome crimes. -- The
car is a cca
1931 Buick 50 Touring, new that year,
114-inch wheelbase, 77HP eight cylinder engine, a lower-mid-priced
automobile fully synchronized transmission four-wheel hydraulic drum
brakes with the driver's seat was adjustable.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1932 Renault TN6A Autobus
Cinema screen grab taken from an American crime film "A
Certain Smile" made 1958 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story is about a law student at the Sorbonne, is engaged to a
fellow classmate. Unfortunately, she's more attracted to his
philandering married uncle and affair begins. --
- Another epitome of Paris and of France, Le Autobus Parisienne in a
similar way as a double-decker was to UK. This is a
1932 Renault TN6A
Autobus Parisienne, from long line of Renaults.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1933 Renault KZ11 Taxi
Cinema screen grab taken from an American crime film "A
Certain Smile" made 1958 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story is about a law student at the Sorbonne, is engaged to a
fellow classmate. She's more attracted to his philandering married
uncle and a tawdry affair begins. -- A Paris Taxi
company started by Baron Rognat in 1905, and still operating, was given
the licencing code G7 and 'launched' Reanault' into mass production.
This is a later 1933_Renault_KZ11
Taxi.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1936 Buick Series 90 Limited
Cinema screen grab from an American film "Adventure in
Diamonds" made 1940 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story is about British flier in South Africa smitten by a girl
stealing diamonds, pick pocketing them himself so to
blackmail the girl to apprehend othersin the gang.
-- This is a cca
1936 Buick Series 90 Limited Limousine,
eight cylinder, very similar to the type that Duke of Windsor ordered
while Prince of Wales and later used with Wallace Simpson in exile in
Paris.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1952
Fordson E494C 5cwt Van
Cinema screen grab taken from an American TV Series "The
Adventures of Ozzie and Hrriet" made 1952'66 where cars are being
investigated by IMCDB. Story is a real life situation comedy family
series based in Hollywood. - - Interesting
vehicle for an American series in Hollywood because this is a British
made Ford van, a cca
1952 Fordson E494C 5cwt Van, made on
the Anglia chassis 1948-1954. Fordson name was used from 1936 for Ford
commercials. No 'Ford Product' badge on louvre.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING: 1954
Mercury Monterey XM-800
Puzzling photo posted on the AACA forum by Crusty Trucker
wandering what the vehicle was? X for Experimental? --
Concept car, from Ford Motor Company, a 1954
Mercury Monterey XM-800 Sedan 'experimental
Mercury'. This was a non-roadgoing 'push car' built on a 1957 Mercury
frame and a 5L V8 engine with the body made entirely of fibreglass and
chromed fibreglass. Donated to Michigan Uni, later sold, rebuilt 2009
and drove away under own power. This styling was later on Lincolns.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1958 VeloSolex 1400 Moped
Cinema screen grab taken from an American crime film "A
Certain Smile" made 1958 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story is about a law student at the Sorbonne, is engaged to a
fellow classmate. Unfortunately, she's more attracted to his
philandering married uncle. -- The epitome of
Paris and France,
motorised bicycle VeloSolex made 1947-1973. From the
ring round headlamp, light colour top to engine, and mudguard below
chrome frame, this is a 1958 VeloSolex 1400.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:
1968 Harley Davidson Servi-car
Cinema screen grab taken from an American film
"Visions" made 1972 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story is about A professor who has visions of the future informs
the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. He then discovers
police consider him prime suspect. -- The
motorcycle the cops are using is a development of the service vehicle,
a cca
1968 Harley Davidson Servi-car Three
Wheeler introduced 1939 and available to 1972. Dating of this one from
the rear lights.
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