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Pre 1920-21 vehicle needs identified


West Peterson

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It is a very big car, in proportion to the people. Aspects of the body look a bit German. I am not sure whether Stoewer made anything that big at that time. The derelict 1918 Paige that was taken for scrap before we could get back to Yass near Canberra to rescue it in winter 1965, and all I have is photos. That was a much smaller car. It may be useful to place it in view of people more comprehensively familiar with early European cars, on prewarcar.com

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In that era Paige made two model lines. The one that is seen in several pics on the net is the smaller 6-42 which has a 119" wheelbase. There was also a bigger 6-55 on a 127" wheelbase which is probably what the car here is. The girl in the picture is quite young and probably no more than 5' tall. The smaller model used Paige's own engine of about 230 cid but the bigger model used a 300 plus cid Continental. The car here is no later than 1919 but not earlier than 1918.

I found this page which suggests that the 1918 and 1919 models were the same - http://www.wcroberts.org/Paige_History/1919_Paige.html - and the car here is most likely a 6-55 sedan.

There is another sedan on this page - http://www.svvs.org/help23.shtml

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