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I think the first one is a Humberette from around 1903. I think the bigger one is American and would date from 1913 or 1914. I am sure we have seen a car with that extended top radiator tank on this site somewhere but I haven't figured out what it is yet. Maybe someone in HCCA might have an idea.

I think your frame is 1927 and the engine is a 1936 Series 40 - 233 cid 93hp.

The two cars in that postcard might be Darracqs.

Manuel. Stutzes of that era were on a 130"wb.

About 1918.

The car on the left with the bars on the grille is a Chandler about 1927-8. Next to it is something quite big - maybe a Locomobile??

The wheels look like 1931 Studebaker - maybe it is a base model 53 Studebaker Six from 1931?

Aussie610 - that chrome strip running over the bulkhead is called a surcingle - a very old word relating to the girth strap on a horse.

The short hood suggests it is a six cylinder model and it looks to have quite skinny tyres - maybe a 1924 model 233?

We have seen this pic before somewhere on another thread. Is it possible to get a closeup of the badge just above the front end of the drive chain? The powerplant is not very big and the drive ratio is very low - but with that steering set up you wouldn't want to drive it very fast anyway!

Look at the size of the front hubs on the first one - plain bearings for sure! I am guessing it is an electric.

The car with Gottlieb Daimler on board looks to be the original Daimler car of 1886. The wire wheel car below it is a Benz Velo I think - Benz's first 'small' car! The 'dos-a-dos' Panhard pic dates from about 1891. These early Panhards had gears but not in a box! This wwas the first car to use the 'Panhard system' as most later cars did with an engine in front, gearbox behind and final drive behind that. The Daimler Phoenix engine has hot tube ignition and takes quite a long time to start from cold. The last one - the rear-engined 'vis-a-vis' might be a DeDion-Bouton from about 1899.

With a painted rather than plated radiator the Jewett is an early one - 1922-24. Jewett only lasted to 1927 and the car became the base model Paige.

Re Tex-Riv' serial number plate. McFarlan only made about 3500 cars in 18 years. Number 513 would be fairly early in the run - maybe mid-teens? Odd that I have found no mention of a model 69 though. The early ones were model 127,137,147 etc. Maybe you need to compare it with the plate on a surviving car? These cars had very big engines about 9.3 litres and built - I think - by Teetor.

The photo is a little distorted but it might be a 1925 Hudson touring car.

Is there an outside chance it is a custom-bodied 1924 Cadillac?

I don't think it is either a Dagmar or a Hudson. The body has a Hudson look about it but this car has front wheel brakes and Hudson didn't get them until 1927 by which time they had moved on from this style of body. Dagmar had an angular radiator - like an exaggerated Willys-Knight - and this car's is rounded. The hood on this car is too short for Hudson and the profile of the front fender doesn't match. I don't know what it is - perhaps it is from one of the more conservative makers - Stearns-Knight for example? Otherwise it is an older car retro-fitted with four wheel brakes. It is on a very long wheelbase so is something expensive when new.

Ford Model A - looks to be on 21" wheels so is likely to be 1929.

I presume this is a British-built T - and also a long-wheelbase commercial chassis? I wonder if they had the same appearance changes as the US models. If not it could be later than it looks.

Echo Robert, it might help to know if your car is a GE or a GL. I think I am right in that the GE has the wings on headlights, sidelights and radiator cap but the GL doesn't (?). I have a third series GE Regal sedan myself which is more correctly called a 1928 1/2 I think, but is registered as a 1929 car. It was sold new here in NZ in March 1929 so must have been built in 1928 - there may even have been overlapping of production of various models? Studebakers of that late 1920s era are very confusing when it comes to dating them. Comment from Mark Huston perhaps - I think you know as much about this era as anyone from what I have read.

7k looks to be a 1932 Studebaker Six St Regis Brougham - a high-faluting name for a basic model. Even though it is only a few years old it has got too close to something and damaged the running board.

I agree it doesn't look big enough to be a Doble - the wheelbase was 142". As far as I know there was only one Doble roadster built - by Murphy - a car which I think survives on the US west coast somewhere. Those are not Doble wheels.

I reckon it is a 1928 Oakland. I don't think that is its original front bumper.

The profile of the rear of the body doesn't match with Peerless. With those wheels I reckon it is more likely to be 1931 than 1929. I think 1931 Nash would be near to it but I am not sure exactly which model - it might be a series 90 sedan.

Have a look at the galleries on the London-Brighton Veteran car site - London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2009. There might be some clues there. By the gilled tube radiator I reckon this car could be as early as 1901-2 and certainly not later than 1904.