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No mention on coachbuilt.com either.

Metropole Hotel, Rue Lavaud, Akaroa, New Zealand, 1914. It burnt down in 1962. Just visible on the left of the photo is the roof of the courthouse. The site is now the carpark of the local supermarket. I see a Siddeley-Deasy car on the left, and a couple of 1913-14 Cadillac seven passenger tourers.

The visible rear wheel suggests to me it may not be American, maybe rather something German from the period when the American influence was very strong.

The horsepower formula of D squared times N divided by 2.5 must have been used at one time in the US as my copy of the Floyd Clymer Catalog of 1914 cars - essentially a reprint of the NACC catalog of the time has a copy of the chart with the horsepower figures for the various bore sizes. It says it was previously known as the ALAM rating and is "based on the average view of eminent engineers as to a fair conservative rating for a four-cycle motor at one thousand feet per minute piston speed".

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More re the Sizaire. Bob wrote is some detail about the car's rebuild in issue #43 and #44 of Beaded Wheels, and then wrote a road test #90. BW-43-Sep-1965_low.pdf (vcc.org.nz) BW-44-Dec-1965_low.pdf (vcc.org.nz) https://vcc.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BW-90-Oct-1974_low.pd

More re the Sizaire. Bob wrote some notes for Beaded Wheels, the VCCNZ magazine in 1957. This issue #9. The magazine is still published - now six times a year, and issue #387 is about to be delivered to members. BW-9-Mar-1957_low.pdf (vcc.org.nz)

This 1907 Sizaire was originally owned by a distant relative of mine. It was found derelict in the late 1950s and restored by an exceptionally clever engineer, the now late, Bob Turnbull. Bob did a lot of the development work on Hamilton jet boat units. At one time he lived not far from me, and I recall following him on his way home one day at his usual cruising speed of 55mph. Two other interesting features of the car are it independent front suspension (very advanced) and its wooden chassis frame (archaic?). The first two photos here I took in 1980 at a VCCNZ National Veteran Rally. In the first one I was in the back seat of a Ford T - Bob passed us soon after. The info sheet in the last photo states there is only one S-N in NZ, but I know there were more, but I am not sure if their current whereabouts. The third photo shows three S-Ns at the 1996 VCCNZ 50th Anniversary Rally. The other shots are more recent. The new owner is local who had the wherewithal to ensure the car stayed in NZ.

It is the transmission that is the most interesting part of these cars. JEG posted thsi one last year - There is a good little video - by a guy with a strong Australian accent - here which explains how the gears work.

I think your arithmetic is a little off - the (relatively) common models of these are 120x 140 mm - 4 /34" x 5 1/2".

That looks like it. Thanks.

Posted on a facebook page with the suggestion it was a Ford. The radiator bears a resemblance to GMC of the era, but I can't find a photo of a GMC with its head lights mounted that way. Those wheels are unusual.

There is nothing in the term 'coupe' which defines how many doors it has. The word has just evolved to mean a two-door car. That hasn't stopped European makers from building four door coupes in recent years. Coupe comes from the French word 'cut'. Body style naming has always been 'fluid'.

From before the merger with Benz.

Yes, I should have spent more time looking at it before posting.🙄😉

Portland, Victoria, Australia, December 1919. Portland is a small town in the west of Victoria about 200 miles from Melbourne. Some local history from Womens History Month - " This is a great photo of Bentinck Street, Portland. You can see the London Cafe on the right, first opened by Josephine Annie "May" Jackman (nee Housen) in December 1918, ready for the summer trade. The Red Cross and Australian Comforts Fund received the proceeds of the opening afternoon. May was the licensee of the neighbouring London Hotel. Born in Portland in 1885, May came from a hotel background, with her parents Samuel Housen and Jemima Broben, licensees of the Richmond Hotel, Portland. In 1908, May married Frank Turnbull of "Winninburn" near Coleraine. In 1910, Frank took up the license of the London Hotel, but he died the following year, leaving May with two infants. In 1912, she married Ebenezer Jackman and continued running the London Hotel. When the London Cafe opened for the 1919/20 summer season, besides homemade scones, cakes, and chocolates, May had added an American soda fountain. By the 1920/21 summer season, May had married for a third time and opened the rooms as Mrs Playle. She promoted the fact her cafe operated on "...the American model, and always succeeds in attracting admirers of enterprising management, coupled with "a fair deal."" May and her husband, Thomas Playle, later operated Mac's Hotel and the Club Hotel in Portland. They left in 1924, having purchased "Wickliffe House" in St Kilda. By 1927, the Playles were leasing the Melbourne Botanic Gardens Tea House, which they did for several years. May died in Toorak in 1970. May's mother Jemima operated the Richmond Hotel, Portland until she died in 1931." The care closest to camera looks to be an early Chev 490. I think the car behind it is something English. On the left, going by the fenders, is a Dodge. CORRECTION - the closest car is also a Dodge.

Not many cars had the rear door open that way, along with the ten spoke front wheels, and the combination of wheel bolts this car has. I reckon 1911 Chalmers Model M 30hp. Thanks to Varun for posting the info page a few months ago.

Add to that - Using phased instead of fazed. 'Should of' instead of 'should have'. An acquaintance who has spent time in real estate still thinks a single building is a premise.

There is nothing in the word derivation of coup to suggest the number of doors. It is simply derived from the French word for cut.

That style of tyre suggests to me maybe 1940s?? Maybe someone can decipher the lettering.

The other one looks to be a Columbia electric. Even though its design looks earlier it might date from around the same time as the Mitchell.

From a facebook page -

Buster Keaton owned two of these - IMCDb.org: Mercer in movies and TV series

1929 Pontiac. The serials numbers ran from 410101 to 530874. And the tag is in the right place - 'under the left front fender'.

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