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Further to the last pic The French make Aries was in production form circa 1902 to 1937. This is their 1907 30 hp model.
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20 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:
A couple of mystery vehicles in France. The commercial is very primitive - iron-tyres and wagon brakes.
There has been a suggestion that the car on the left may be a Gregoire and the 'camion' a circa 1903 Aries.
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I don't have any specification information on Knox vehicles but I think this one must have had quite a large engine.
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In the days before bike trailers and vans you rearranged your large touring car.to go to the bike races. Presumably these guys are reasonably wealthy and maybe that is the family car - or one of them.
Unfortunately the car is so obscured it is unidentifiable. The ohc Norton on the running board dates from the 1930s but the car is probably more than ten years old - note no front brakes.
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I am not sure this is quite the place to post this but it is too good not to share and I think this is a popular page. It was posted by one Bob Coiro on a facebook page;-
'Back about a hundred years ago, when Grandpa and Grandma bought a house in the town once known in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" as "the valley of ashes" (Corona, Queens, NY), the property included a large enough back yard that in it, Grandpa could build a huge, 4-car garage. This structure was a dimly lit lair which, in the present day, might be called a "man-cave." Nothing against the ladies, mind you, but this place reeked of oil, kerosene, grease and wet-rotted wood, and there were even a few (gasp!) girly pin-ups. Oh yes, this was most definitely the exclusive domain of the XY chromosome.
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Upon a battered old desk in one corner sat an equally battered kerosene tail-lamp from some nameless horseless carriage and an old cathedral radio which worked astonishingly well. Instead of playing dramas like "The Lone Ranger," "The Shadow" and "War of the Worlds," it very incongruously played, "At the Hop," "Earth Angel" and "The Duke of Earl." Nevertheless, the décor was a bedraggled mix of Industrial Revolution and "Early Depression," and the countless license plates nailed to the bare-wood walls testified of the establishment's advanced age.
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One of the neatest things about the garage was the grease pit in the floor. Grandpa, Dad and I would remove our watches and rings, lift out the protective wooden planks and descend into that dank, damp pit—the holy of holies—where beer-swilling, sweat-stinking MEN farted shamelessly, said very bad words and got black grime irrevocably implanted beneath their fingernails as they worked on oil-dripping, rust-flaking geriatric automobiles. Suffice to say, we didn't eat quiche.
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Anyway, since tarnish-tinged teens of the Brass-Era, the rumble seat roadsters of the Roaring-Twenties, on up through the towering tailfins of the fabulous-fifties, that pit was used quite a lot and all kinds of car repairs got done down there, including welding. We didn't worry about poisonous or flammable vapors and we certainly spilled a few pints of gasoline, but nothing bad ever happened. I dunno; maybe it wasn't actually dangerous or maybe we were simply lucky enough to get away with it. I recall discussing the subject of safety only once and only very briefly: That was the time I asked Grandpa why he had built that concrete pit instead of installing some kind of lift. His reply was, "Did you ever hear of a car crushing a man because it fell off the ground?" '.-
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Another obscure French make that I had not heard of until now - Crespelle -
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A couple of mystery vehicles in France. The commercial is very primitive - iron-tyres and wagon brakes.
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One of the many more obscure French car makes is DFP, for Dorian, Flandrin and Parant. The company has its own small place in automotive history because the British agent for the make was one Walter Owen Bentley who modified some DFP cars using aluminium pistons and proved their worth before going into production with his own cars.
This first photo is from Australia, an undated photo of a car fitted with a locally-made body. The car identified as an early DFP. The second photo posted as another example of the make. It is not stated but I guess the location of the second photo is somewhere 'colonial'.
Doriot, Flandrin & Parant - Wikipedia
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15 hours ago, 30DodgePanel said:
French car NY to Paris race in Ely Nevada
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Another one with no info. Might be a French Talbot - Those look like Marchal lights.
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Washington, D.C., 1927. "Semmes Motor Co. -- Turville(?) car, Connecticut Avenue." A Graham Brothers van.
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3 hours ago, 30DodgePanel said:
The Model B, the first of the six cylinder Durants - with the Anstead six I think.
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3 hours ago, 30DodgePanel said:
Willys-Knight circa 1921 with a couple of overland 4s behind. Maybe taken at the factory?
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Did I read somewhere that the guy who designed the engines for LaFrance has previously designed the Simplex engine?
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On 1/5/2022 at 4:42 AM, twin6 said:
The basis if the truck looks to be a Denby - distinctive with the gas tank on the driver's knee.
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Not a Studebaker I reckon.
Those are aftermarket Disteel wheels.
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And now for something completely different. Apparently nearly a thousand of these LGOC B type London buses were commandeered for use in France during WW1, most as troop transports but some served in other roles. This one is a carrier pigeon loft. It looks to have been in the same spot for some time going by the grass trodden down around it.
For reference this is a shot from the cover of a scale model -
The car in the background is a Sunbeam 16-20 a model used in some numbers as a staff car.
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Another fascinating photo with no background story. Whether it is the bad guys' car after they had been arrested or what I don't know.
It looks to be a 1910 or earlier big Panhard.
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A mystery photo posted on facebook with no information. The location could be Europe but I think the car is American.
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Not as old as some here but this turned up on a facebook page a short time ago and I thought it an opportunity too good to miss.
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1 hour ago, 1939_Buick said:
I went there too but all of the codes there start with letters.
There were some tractors that used the Mopar six. I have not searched that area.
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On 3/25/2018 at 2:16 PM, KSC said:
I need help in decoding the serial numbers on the block and head of my Philift Forklift. I have attached some pictures of the numbers. On the block it shows A2 then 18.52 just below the A2.... which is on the drivers side block. Farther down on the block just below the starterare the numbers 1326229 31. On the head there are two sets of numbers 7-18 toward the front and either 1616823-17 or its [6] 6823-[7.... I cant tell if those are numerical 1's or a divider between numbers...... help if you can.
Came across this one while looking for other Mopar stuff. year late - but those two numbers you posted are the part number of the block and the casting date which is actually 4 - 18 - 52 - April 18 1952.
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I had another thought about that last photo in my earlier post. I think the guy on the hood of the car might actually be my grandfather - I am not sure who the kids are - and it may have been taken on the same trip as this one which has a date of 1927 on it. It is one of those photos I should have asked my uncle about a few eyars ago before he got ill and died. Until he had a stroke at 99 his mind was still sharp, and he still had much of our family history, and a lot of local area history, at his fingertips.
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5 hours ago, twin6 said:
Mitchell car - circa 1907??
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Period images to relieve some of the stress
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