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nzcarnerd

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  1. I have to disagree with the comments about the date of this car. The fixed wheel rims and plain wheel bearings suggest an early date. I note the Matheson in that pic is chain drive and the mystery car could be also from the look of the boxes in front of the rear wheels. I wonder if those odd looking rear wheels are some form of removeable part of the wheel to aid tyre changing?

  2. Good to see some one has a list of numbers. If the first car built was number BW100P (?11002) then this car is the 23rd off the line. This would make it built sometime in late 1925? Do you have the serial number range for 1929 Canadian Plymouth? Mine is GC337Y.

  3. I don't know whether this vehicle is a Maxwell or a Chrysler. My information is that the 1926 model year was the first to use the fedco system of numbers. I don't know enough of the corporate history to know when the Canadian company changed its name from Maxwell. Some research to do maybe.

  4. That looks like a Fedco number so is no earlier than 1926. Chrysler Canada started in 1925. I have a Canadian 1929 Plymouth with a Fedco number that doesn't fit into the code for the US ones - using WPCHRYSLER as numbers. Your code then is ?11024. Maybe the Canadian ones used a different first digit code? Hope we hear from a Canadian Chrysler expert. Maybe your truck is a cut down Chrysler 4. Depends on the wheelbase - 109" will be a 1925-6 model 58, 103" will be a 1927 model 50. That is assuming there is any chassis there.

  5. That number seems to tie in with 1929 from the list above. A clue are the front brakes which are still external contracting. 1929 was the last year of those. If it is Holden body there might be the remains of a tag on the left side of the scuttle/cowl. I guess it is a model 116.

  6. Regarding the second lot of pics. I think Nash only did 4Wd trucks (Quads). That looks like a name beginning with R on the badge - maybe Ruggles?? The second pic is a GM showroom with a new 1929 Chevrolet and a 1929 Oakland landau sedan.

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