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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.

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.

Because of the tall radiator filler it might be a Napier from the period just before WW1.

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.

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.

4 bolt disc wheels - maybe Nash Ajax?

There is a restored one of these in NZ. I think it is called a Gramm. Maybe this will jog the memory of some one who knows more about them.