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53 minutes ago, Lozierman said:
Could this be an Aero car? Around 1907 vintage?
That may explain why it looks vaguely familiar. The subject of Aerocars has come up a few times recently.
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Sharing a card from Olivier Cyclecar Villard on a French fb page. What is the car?
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Posted this one on the 'what is it' page as well. That badge must be a clue. Note the aftermarket(?) wheel discs.
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Suggested as a Saxon but I don't think so.
Note the discs over the wheels.
Visible radiator badge would might help id.
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Maybe both are Hudsons?? They were popular for this sort of work, along with Cadillacs and Big Six Studebakers.
Location is noted as Clarence Bridge and I found an old photo of the first bridge in that location, north of Kaikoura on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island.
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Not much to go on but maybe Graham-Paige???
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On 11/29/2021 at 10:57 AM, 1937hd45 said:
Is that ANZANI in raised letters on the crankcase? If so is it an aircraft engine, or part of one? Bob
Looking back a few pages I realised I didn't answer your question. As far as I know Anzani built engines for general automotive use as well.
Mentioned there is a British arm of the organisation. I know someone who has an old British Anzani marine outboard engine. As he says he would never trust it enough to put in on a boat.
Quite a few Morgan cars had Anzani engines.
British Anzani Engine Co - Graces Guide
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A couple of interesting ones from facebook.
Same barn in the background - around 100 years apart.
Apparently a copy of the early one is in the Owl's Head museum. I see this version was 'borrowed' from The Old Motor.
The poster of the modern photo says the woman in the old photo was the great aunt of a friend of his.
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Posting this one mainly for the interesting transmission on the bike. No info with the photo - the poster on fb said it was just a postcard for sale somewhere.
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Antelope Valley - about 70 miles from Los Angeles - circa 1915. Holt or Best(?) tractor maybe with added bunkers by the looks.
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5 hours ago, Gary_Ash said:
Could be front wheel, Studebaker Model 54, 1931. Brakes were 12" dia. Large cone of wheel bearing crosses to Timken 14125A, 1.25" i.d., 2.717" o.d.
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1 minute ago, keiser31 said:
Six hub bolts.
Whoops - 😀 - fixed
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These were posted on a facebook page.
The tyre looks to be 19".
Four rims bolts, six hub bolts, and internal expanding brakes that are not very big - must limit the options. I haven't researched it myself.
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On 12/16/2021 at 2:07 PM, 1912Staver said:
I don't think this one has been posted already. Case race car from the 1913 Indy . Also Detroit PL collection.
McCue wheels like the ones the first year or two of Stutz used. They don't seem to have been on the market for very long. also unusual is that the front shocks are mounted at 90 degrees from what most are.
The DPL links you posted wouldn't load for me.
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Cars facing the camera thought to be on the left a 1910 Oldsmobile Special, an '08 Elmore 30 and an '06-07 Ford N.
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1938, California. Is that a Cadillac?
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1928 Renault KZ2 which a friend is (slowly) restoring -
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The fleet of a small local carrier just pre WW2. Any idea on the truck third from left?
The building is still there - though no longer a wool and grain store. Unusual for Christchurch where about 80% of the city's buildings had to be demolished after the February 2011 earthquake.
On the left in the old photo where advertising hoardings can be seen there is now a bridge over the railway - built about 1960.
There is an overbridge on the street, Moorhouse Avenue, now - built in 1965 - which makes getting a good angle impossible.
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Ouch I bet that hurt - location Cementon, New York, 1913. I looked it up - about halfway between Poughkeepsie and Albany.
Note the sign in a mix of languages.
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Midland, a make new to me although there is an article in The Standard Catalog. Seems the make died due to 'mis-management' - perhaps a too polite description?
This one might be from 1913.
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A Pacific Northwest logging camp. Plates are Washington 1921.
Any thoughts on what the truck at lower left is?
Photo posted on a facebook page b y Katie Galligan Kral, from a California collection -
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1 hour ago, Buffalowed Bill said:
I don't want to sound like I'm arguing, but when you speak of survival rate being low, you should be saying actual survival is very low. The rate would be the percentage of the production that has survived. So in other words we could expect that of the total production of 1933 Studebakers would be less then 1%, but the survival of the Speedways is closer to 15%.
We don't know for sure because how many of each body style were produced because there is no breakdown by body type in 1931, but assuming about 10% of production Presidents that year are roadsters, the 54 survivors is about 4%. This is obviously much higher than would be expected. I don't have the number in front of me, but I seem to remember that about 22,000 model 54's were produced in 1931. I suspect that the survival of the roadsters is much less than 1% of those produced.
Re the Model 92 Speedways Presidents - eight of all body styles left out of 657 total represents just over 1%. There were also 1194 Model 82 'regular' Presidents built in the US in 1933 (according to my copy of The Standard catalog - which doesn't include Canadian production) but I have no info on the survival of those.
There was a total of 23, 917 built of the 1931 Model 54.
Survival rates area funny thing - I am sure you have heard anecdotal stories of certain limited production cars where the survival rate is over 100%. where there are ten surviving out of the five built etc.
Post WW2 New Zealand was very different place to today where our car imports are pretty much unrestricted and tarriff free. NZ had a protected assembly industry up to the 1990s but there was a major change which is too complicated to go into. In the 1950s the great majority of our cars came from Britain. American cars were in demand but due to the country's low dollar reserves were always in short supply, especially in the first few years after the war. I recently read a car dealer ad from 1951 where a 1938 Chevrolet was advertised for twice what it sold for new. Most of our 1950s American cars came from Canada and due to the low numbers were, for each year all of the same model and specification with a small amount of local content added at assembly time. Our 1955 Chevs were plain Jane six cylinder sedans, many of which were repowered with V8s in their later life. Those '55 were great workhorses but there was demand from those with a little more cash for something a bit flasher so for 1956, and from then on, our Chevs were Bel Air sedans, all V8 with three on the tree, but with few 'extras'. (The Powerglide was made standard from 1961). Getting to the point of this paragraph regarding the 1956 Chev Bel Airs I don't know exactly how many were imported but there 845 registered new in 1956, of which at least 60 are known to survive - there may be more put away in sheds - though only a small number are mint originals or correctly restored, most have been hotrodded at some time. From 1958-on the numbers were much smaller. There were only about 300 from each of the Big Three, plus a few others - Rambler, Studebaker etc - but imports of North American cars ended in the late 1960s was V8 powered stuff came available from Australia.
In recent years imports of used American cars has become unrestricted so there are now thousands of them and the local new models are only a small percentage of the total.
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Any idea what it might be?
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On 12/14/2021 at 10:17 PM, Buffalowed Bill said:
"Here is a good example of what you are saying. The green car in the back is a 1931 Studebaker President Four Seasons roadster (and a CCCA classic?). Combined with the very similar 1932 models there are more than 100 surviving examples. There may be more if any unrestored ones are counted. The red and white roadster is the lowest price model in the 1931 Studebaker range (it was priced at $895 at the factory vs about $1900 for the President). It seems there may be only about four of them surviving. That car has changed hands since that photo was taken in 2012 and now lives a few minutes away from me."
I agree with much of what you said, but your numbers don't add up. There are 54 surviving "Four Season Roadsters" and six or or so 1932 President convertibles surviving. I think if you were able to add up all the 1931-31 Presidents, all body styles, it might come to a little less than 100 cars.
I may have misinterpreted the numbers from what I had heard but it still illustrates how many more of them survive compared with the low price Model 54 six roadster. I have not seen any info re Commander roadster of that year.
The survival rate of the 1933 Speedway Presidents is quite low. Only eight out of 657 built according to this list from Richard Quinn - from nearly 20 years ago. I wonder if any more have turned up.
I suspect the Studebaker truck survival rate is equally low - like this 1931 in the Richardson collection -
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Period images to relieve some of the stress
in Period Photos - Pre WWII
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I live on the property that my great grandfather bought as bare land in 1915, He was about 50 at the time. He died in 1931 and never owned car. My grandfather bought his first car - a 1917 Studebaker 6 - in the late 1920s. That was replaced sometime in the 1930s by a 1924 Studebaker Big Six. The first tractor - a little John Deere LA (which I have no photos of) - was purchased just after WW2, and that was replaced with a Ferguson TEA in 1956.
The first photo is my grandfather as a young man in the 'family car' with his parents about 1918.
There were two horses to do what ever was needed. I have no photos of them ploughing but I still have the Oliver orchard plough that was used. In this photo the guy driving the dray was a neighbour who worked for my great grandparents. The little girl is my aunt who was born in 1924. The boys is my uncle who passed way in March aged 100 years and 13 days. My father came along later.
Coincidentally this is the cottage that was built for my grandparents in 1919 when my grandfather came home from WW1, although he arrived to late to see action, although did get to Britain in time for the big flu epidemic and was lucky to survive it. As I write this I am sitting in what is the porch in the photo - now enclosed - though the cottage has been almost doubled in size.
This is the family 1917 Studebaker. The young man sitting on the hood is my uncle - the same little boy as in the photo with the horse and dray. Photo date uncertain but I think about 1936.