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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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Below relates to enquiries received during
2024 Click
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1928
Humber 14'40 Box Van
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story of young idealistic doctor who tries to improve health in
1930s Welsh mining town but gets side-tracked by his ambitions. Some
scenes shot abroad? -- Bits of a vehicle in a
dark surrounding which had to be put/stitched together to make sense
and which produced a very unexpected result. This is a very unusual cca
1928 Humber 14'40 Box Van, replaced later
by the 16'50.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1930
Lagonda 2 Litre Sports
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story of young idealistic doctor who tries to improve health in
1930s Welsh mining town but gets side-tracked by his ambitions. Some
scenes shot abroad? -- - Very dark contrasty
photo which shows a lattice metalwork support tubes to the headlight
mounting bar Typical of British Talbot or Lagonda. This would seem to
actually be a cca
1930 Lagonda 2 Litre Sports, pre WO
Bentley.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1922
Daimler 6'30 Limousine
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story of young idealistic doctor who tries to improve health in
1930s Welsh mining town but gets side-tracked by his ambitions. Some
scenes shot abroad? -- Very dark photo and also
not much of the car can be seen, but the bits that appear to be
recognisable very much suggest this was a high quality British vehicle,
being a cca
1922 Daimler 6'30 Open Drive Limousine.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1928
International 1 Ton Truck
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars are being investigated by
IMCDB. Story of young idealistic doctor who tries to improve health in
1930s Welsh mining town but gets side-tracked by his ambitions. Some
scenes shot abroad? -- Wales is not normally a
place you would expect to see an American c1928
International 1 Ton Dropside Truck,
supposed in the 1930s but with a 7845 PP suffix registration which did
not come in force until the 1960s.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1922
Austro-Daimler AD 6-15 Sports
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars investigated by IMCDB. Young
idealistic doctor tries to improve health in 1930s Welsh mining town
but gets side-tracked. Some scenes shot abroad? --
Very dark photo and Wales is not normally a place you would expect to
see a high performance car designed by Ferdinand Porsche and made in
Vienna Austria, being a cca
1922 Austro-Daimler AD 6-15 Sports Tourer.
Perhaps pretending a Bentley.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1919
Citroen Model A Torpedo
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars investigated by IMCDB. Young
idealistic doctor tries to improve health in 1930s Welsh mining town
but gets side-tracked. Some scenes shot abroad? --
Wales is not normally a place you would expect to see cca
1919 Citroen Model A Torpedo made in
Paris France. This was the first car model made by Citroen. From 1926
to 1965 Citroen also assemled cars in England in the Berkshire town of
Slough.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1928
Ballot 2LTS Berline
Cinema screen grab taken from a British TV Series
"Citadel" made 1983 where cars investigated by IMCDB. Young
idealistic doctor tries to improve health in 1930s Welsh mining town
but his ambitions side track him. Some scenes are shot abroad? --
Wales is not normally a place you would expect to see cca
1928 Ballot 2LTS Berline, made in
Paris France. Ballot Brothers started by making marine engines in 1905,
and 1910 also made expensive and competition cars, Became Hispano-Suiza
'32.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1909
Zedel CA 10hp Tourer
Another interesting photo received from Forums Sleuth, Mark
Dawber (New Zealand).
- - Car from a company Zürcher & Lüthi started in Neuchatel in
Switzerland in 1897 manufacturing motorcycle engines. Production moved
1905 to the French side of the border to avoid taxes. Smallish car,
with horisontal bars, has a London registration, shape suggesting cca
1909 Zedel CA 10hp Tourer. Taken over
1919 by Jerone Donnet of flying boat fame. becoming Donnet Zedel. Simca
in 1934.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1912
SCAT 25'35 Targa Florio
Another interesting photo received from our Forums Sleuth, Mark
Dawber (New Zealand),askinf for make of
vehicle in Walsh mountains? -- The car is
obviously a SCAT (Società Ceirano Automobili Torino), and the
registration is Manchester CBC. The connection is probably that Newton
Bennett of Manchester were SCAT Representatives in UK. Cyril Snipe was
a nephew who worked in Turin for SCAT as Test Driver and won the 1912
965km Giro di Sicilia in a 1912
SCAT 25'35 Targa Florio.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1931 D8S Delage Coupe
Another grainy but puzzling photo received
from Georges Truffaut (Belgium)
of a vehicle he is trying to identify. Believed photographed in France;
Delage? -- French Delage indeed, just
before the end in 1935 and before the Delahey takeover. Seems from the
D8S range as has the D8 roundel in centre on the headlamp bar. Unusual
angled louvers suggest only the 1931 year, and the bodywork could be a
Limousine or Coupe, so we think a cca
1931 Delage D8S Coupe. Later, 1954
Hotckis.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1911
ALFA 12HP Torpedo Corsa
Another lovely photo received from our Forums Sleuth, Mark
Dawber (New Zealand), from a forum of old
photos asking for information on the make of vehicle photographed in
Australian outback? Is it a 1910/12 Alfa 24HP? --
ALFA's first car was the 24HP made 1910-1921. We however think from
upright open steering wheel that it is
their smaller racing model made from 1910 to 1911, a c1911
ALFA 12HP Corsa Torpedo with
four-cylinder engine of 2413cc. SEE
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1898
Benz Velocipede 3.5HP Dos-a-dos
Screen-grab taken from a British silent short film "How to
stop a Motor Car" made in 1902 where cars are being investigated
by IMCD. -- Story is a silent Hepworth comedy at
the expense of how a police officer could stop a car 'racing' along the
road. Very early use of stop motion trick photography where the
policeman, the passengers and the car explode un big puffs of smoke,
bits of limbs flying everywhere. The car in all three photos is the
same cca
1898 Benz Velocipede SEE
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1914
Daimler 38HP Tourer
Another photo received from our Forums Sleuth, Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) asking for information on make of vehicle, --
Dating vehicles around World War One time is difficult if the
registration number is not visible, as in this case. The car can either
be from just before the war (13/14), or immediate carry-over just
after the war (19'20), so a seven year gap where not much happened in
visual development. This is a big car with lipped mudguards so probably
a cca 1914 Daimler 38 Tourer.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1903
Cottereau V2 Tonneau
Another photo received from our Forums Sleuth, Mark Dawber (New
Zealand) asking for information on make of vehicle in seen in
front of the Neuvon Railway Viaduct, -- Viaduct
is a curved semi-circular arch masonry railway bridge built in 1849 in
eastern France. The 236 metre long viaduct is 23 metres high and has 16
arches which cross the valley at Plombières lès Dijon. Our Ariejan
Bos advises the car is a cca
1903 Cottereau V2 Tonneau air cooled,
made in Dijon. READ
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:c1916
Ford Model T Special
Cinema screen grab taken from an American "When Love Took
Wings" made in 1915 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story of three men in love with the same woman, until one of them takes her on an airplane in an
attempt to elope. -- This is a
relatively difficult one because car has all the signs of a rounded
bonnet transverse sprung
rounded radiatored post 1916 Ford
Model T, but film is advised
as been made in 1915 - so either earlier pre-1915 Fprd T Special or
later film?
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1909
Peugeot Type 105 Sports Tourer
Another photo received from our Forums Sleuth, Mark Dawber (New
Zealand), f asking for information of the make of vehicle? --
Confirmed by Ariejan Bos as Peugeot. Big models pre-1910 had chain
drive. This is a Peugeot type 105 6 cylinder produced in 1908/9.
Registration plate ending with X5 was issued end of 1909, so this must
have been one of the last of series. The body is interesting and seems
indebted to the American toy tonneau body, low built and ending just
above rear axle.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1922
Willys Overland Model 90 Touring
Cinema screen grab taken from an American film "The Timid Young
Man." made in 1935 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story is about a mangone off women and a woman who gone off men
who find their budding relationship threatened.
-- Very small basic vehicle that kept Willys second in US sales.
Conceived in 1903 as a single pot 5HP waster cooled Overland, which
failed to grow until taken over by dealer John Willys, is cca
1922 Willys Overland Model 90 Touring 27HP.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1932
Chrysler CI Convertible Coupe
Cinema screen grab taken from an American film "The Timid Young
Man." made in 1935 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story is about a man gone off women and a woman who gone off men
who find their budding relationship threatened. --
Interesting radiator grille suggesting a cca 1932 Chrysler CI
Convertible Coupe, one of only 1,000 produced, with very few left
existing. Powered by a 224 cubic-inch flathead inline six-cylinder 82hp
engine and 3-speed manual gearbox.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1925
Packard 533 Club Sedan
Cinema screen grab taken from an American film "The Timid Young
Man." made in 1935 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story is about a man gone off women and a woman who gone off men
who find their budding relationship threatened. --
Confirmed by Tim Martin and Mark Dawber as 1925 Packard 533 Club Sedan.
The only Packard Six Club Sedan with eight wheel nuts was produced on
the 5th series which had 133" wheelbase was the Model 533. the
others had six nuts.
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IDENTIFICATION AND DATING:1931
Pierce Arrow Model 42 Sedan
Cinema screen grab taken from an American film "The Timid Young
Man." made in 1935 where cars are being investigated by IMCDB.
Story is about a man gone off women and a woman who gone off men
who find their budding relationship threatened. --
Headlaps on wings, a cca 1931 Pierce Arrow Model 42 Sedan of January
1931 with minimal changes to body. Three variations available of model
having three engine sizes and four wheelbase lengths. One sold
to Shah of Persia.
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