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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.
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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.
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The photo is a little distorted but it might be a 1925 Hudson touring car.
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Is there an outside chance it is a custom-bodied 1924 Cadillac?
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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.
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Ford Model A - looks to be on 21" wheels so is likely to be 1929.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I reckon it is a 1928 Oakland. I don't think that is its original front bumper.
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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.
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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.
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Judging from the wide fenders it might be a Hudson - maybe around 1928?.
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Going by the low-build of the body it might be a Model 32 Hupmobile from about 1913-14.
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Oldsmobile - probably 1928 but could be 1929.
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The radiator of this car does bear a resemblance to that on the Studebaker Special Six of around 1925-26 but it was not 'veed' at the bottom and this car is looks to be earlier than that - more like 1918-1920 I think.
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A quick google image search shows some Holsmans dated as early as 1902 but The Standard Catalog gives 1903 as the first date of them. It seems to be quite common to find early cars given impossibly early dates in the early days of the old car hobby.
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If you believe what you see in The Standard Catalog, National used round radiators in 1905, 1906 and 1907.
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It has conventional fore-and-aft semi-elliptic front springs. That is the complicated headlight support bracket you may be confusing as a front spring.
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Looking at this picture again, I reckon that the wheelbase of this car is not as much as 118". The Standard Catalog lists a 35/40hp roadster on a 108" wheelbase for 1907-08 which I think is more likely. I is conceivable that they could have put a big engine into a shorter chassis as a special order.
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Yes I would agree that Tourist is a distinct possibility. They had a rounded top radiator like this one. In 1908-10 they did a Model H roadster on a 118" wb which had a choice of 35/40hp or a 45/50hp 4 cylinder engine.
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I reckon this car dates from about 1908-10 and might be a Pope-Hartford.
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Seems as if Cords were popular in Sweden - a convertible sedan this time. Looks like a 1929 Chrysler product behind it - maybe a De Soto?
I don't know what this first one is, any ideas?
in Period Photos - Pre WWII
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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.