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3 hours ago, twin6 said:

1905-07 American Mercedes?

[Chain drive six cylinder speedster - what it is?]

Any ideas on the possible location?

 

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The warehouse of J Ballantyne and Co, Christchurch, New Zealand, probably just post WW1. The vehicle second from left is a circa 1913 Unic which has survived. It was first restored in the early 1950s and has been with the same family ever since.

 

 

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'Global warming' in Napier, New Zealand 1911.

 

[I have a 1929 peerless 6/60 sedan and was wondering how many are left]

The 6-60 was the low price Peerless for 1929. It used a 199 cid Continental 10E engine and had a base price of $1195. My production figure book says Peerless' total new registrations in 1929 were 8,318. I suspect it is likely that some of the 1930 registrations (4,021) were of leftover '29s. My serial number book says the 6-60 serial numbers went from B603,034 to B610,000 - just less than 7,000 units. I imagine about 80% of that would have been four door sedans. As Peerless quickly became an 'orphan' I doubt the survival rate is as high as other more 'common' models.

 

Btw all that info came from books I bought while in the US in 1978. I wonder how much of the info in those book has been disproven.

[Touring car - late teens maybe - something mid/upper market?]

2 hours ago, wayne sheldon said:

Hupmobile did have a similar shaped hubcap for a couple years!

I think it is something bigger and more upmarket than a Model R Hup. It has a larger space between the lower edge of the body and where a running board would be.  It also appears to have step plates rather than running boards.

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6 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:

English AUSTIN logo on the radiator, they did make large cars early on. 

 

One of four built for the 1908 French Grand Prix at Dieppe - 100hp six cylinder 9.7 litre. This one looks to have been converted into a road car. One example has survived.

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5 hours ago, 1937hd45 said:

Jack Johnson, Heavy Weight Boxing Champion had an eye for fine cars. 

The British Standard - this one is circa 1907-08 I think - later Standard-Triumph - not to be confused with the more than one(?) American maker who used the same name.

 

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Mystery mid 1920s coupe.

 

 

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Strong-willed lady with late teens touring car.

 

 

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Unknown teens sedan.

 

 

[Touring car - late teens maybe - something mid/upper market?]

[Teens sedan]

Around 1916-18?

 

 

[Mid 1920s coupe]

A couple of pics from ebay. Two different dale but I think they are the same car.

 

I first thought Buick - but the hubs, and the body moulding,  are wrong. Six rim bolts say not Durant Star or anything Willys I think. Note it has four wheel brakes.

 

 

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56 minutes ago, keiser31 said:

Too many differences to be the same car.

That one with the two guys has defied identification so far. The hood looks sort of like Studebaker-Garford but a match ahs not been found.

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49 minutes ago, keiser31 said:

Different fenders on the two red cars.

Probably been 'correctly' restored sometime over the intervening 50+ years.

 

I think in the movie they just covered up the L on the registration plate. N is a registration series from Manchester beginning in early 1904.   LN is a 1906 London registration.

 

I suspect the radiator is German silver.

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8 hours ago, twin6 said:

I wonder if this unknown car is the same make.  Similar hood - similar hubs - 

 

 

 

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5 hours ago, twin6 said:

1906 Beeston-Humber (as distinct from the products of the Coventry factory). Note the sprag - it must be about one of the last cars to have one fitted.

 

 

 

This one appeared the movie "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" - 

 

 

A more recent shot of what may be the same car at the Beamish museum in the UK.

 

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7 hours ago, twin6 said:

1926 Hupmobile Eight.

[Remy 917A Generators]

I have a Wagner generator from a Standard Six on my GE Dictator. It has been converted to 12 volts using the field coils from an Australian Bosch generator from the 1960s. I don't have a photo of the set up - I will have to go out the the shed and take one.

 

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9 hours ago, twin6 said:

Hendersons

The Henderson car article in The Standard Catalog says the "Henderson family later became famous in the motorcycle field." I actually think there was no connection at all between the Henderson motorcycle, founded in Detroit Michigan in 1911 and the Henderson car business (1912-14 only) of Indianapolis.

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7 hours ago, twin6 said:

Stutz?

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7 hours ago, LCK81403 said:

Hmmm.  A Ford expert is needed on this photo.  The photo of the car that kicked off this sidebar has front fenders with a small curve.  The photo posted of the "Ford S ?" has front fenders flat on top.  My small collection of early Fords shows a Model N with curved front fenders.

R is for Running boards - S is for Short running boards.

[1924 Chrysler vin identification help]

3 hours ago, Alex Cotic said:

Hi sorry for the late reply, does your book say how many 1924  mod 70 phaetons were produced? Thanks, Alex

The Standard Catalog has no breakdown of individual body style production figures. I think it reasonable to assume that the majority of that year's production - maybe 80%?? - would have been open body cars. Both a touring car and a phaeton  - both five passenger - are listed but there is no information as to how they differ.