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As far as I know there are no detailed production figures available for any Studebakers before 1935.

An evocative period workshop shot borrowed from a French Facebook page. Not a lot of clues as to where it was taken. I am guessing the cars are being rebuilt rather than being new builds. There is a box with Gasoline written on it but that could be a WW1 leftover. The closer chassis has a maker's plate but the photo is not clear enough to read it. Maybe a brass era expert can pick up clues from the numbers of hub bolts etc. One possible clue is that the wheels have oval spokes. I have an ITALA front axle with oval spokes, although I have no idea what model it is from. ITALA redesigned their cars every year in that era and made a large range of models from quite small to quite large. EDIT - I found the pics I took a few years ago of the ITALA wheels. They are quite different. I reckon these wheels would have taken 820 x 120 metric tyres.

Someone once thought it might have been an apple pie recipe. I haven't been able to read it. I guess the bent fender was just normal battle scars. The car was put up for sale just post WW2, and unfortunately, some scrap men came in and broke it up with sledgehammers and left behind what they didn't want. We cleared the rusting remains of the body about 50 years ago. The only surviving part of it is the Waltham clock.

Those lamps were used 1922-24 on the Model EK. This is my grandparents' 1924 Stude Big Six in 1942.

The barely visible text on the photo says - "Koondrook, Departure for the War, 17th Light Horse, 1914." Koondrook is a small town in inland Victoria, Australia. It is likely that the men took their own horses with them. I think the car is a 1912 Buick Model 34.

1928, at 417 Ferry Rd, Christchurch, New Zealand. From the city engineer's report at the time - "The City Engineer’s report describes the station at 417 Ferry Road as having no service building. It only includes a pump placed next to a wooden building, which is a bicycle repair shop. The petrol pumps and the shop are both owned by C H Robinson." Petrol station, Woolston | canterburystories.nz Unfortunately, the front of the car is hard to see. The price of one shilling and eleven pence for an imperial gallon represents about one to two hours' wages for a working man. There is still a gas station on that site, though much larger than 95 years ago. Nowadays, even though people complain about the price of petrol, it is relatively less expensive than in 1928 at less than half the average hourly wage for an imperial gallon equivalent.

Sturt St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, probably in the late 1930s. The small English car at lower right is not yet identified. It looks to be a GMC tanker truck next to it. Many of the American cars are likely to have locally produced bodies. A recent view from street level. Some of the same buildings visible.

A photo captioned Dingmans Ferry, PA, Oct 4, 1914. That looks to be a circa 1913-14 American Underslung on the left. That is a brand new 1915 Oakland Model 37 roadster on the right. In the centre might be a 1913 Haynes Model 22. Photo as first seen and a tidied version. Alos a link to some Haynes advertising material - American Automobile Advertising published by Haynes-Apperson in 1913 (uniquecarsandparts.com.au) I have added a photo of a 1913 Haynes Model 23 (the bigger six) which led me to thinking the centre in the photo car might be a Haynes.

One of the first motor buses in Howick, Auckland, New Zealand, maybe circa 1905. Apparently a Milnes-Daimler.

Stude -

Circa 1925 Studebaker Special Six on the left.

1929 Austin 7 with a mid/late 1929 London UK registration. A useful link for UK plates - Car registration letter codes 1900-1972 (oldclassiccar.co.uk)

Your car maybe been 'screaming' at 40 mph, but it was likely doing only 2,000 rpm. As I noted in my earlier comment, straight eights can sound very busy, especially in an old car with little sound proofing. My guess is with the T5 that the slightest incline would mean dropping down to 4th gear. The six-cylinder Dictators of that era used the same short rear end ratios as the eights. What will give away that you have a modern box is the distinctive howl of second gear will be gone. That is one of the endearing characteristics of a pre-synchro box.

I think the 'brass circular bit' is more likely a personal logo relating to the owner, or the town. I reckon the brass name plates on radiators were mostly aftermarket.

When you say 30-35 mph 'max', what do you mean? Have you fitted a tachometer? Peak power for that engine is developed at 3200 rpm so it should run up to 3000 easily and a healthy cruise would be at about 2500. You should be able to calculate the figures from known parameters - diff ratio, and tire diameter etc. Try putting figures in here - Speed versus RPM calculator (wahiduddin.net) I put some figures in there and reckon at 2500 rpm you should get somewhere between 45 and 50 mph cruise depending on tire size. Btw one inch either way in wheel diameter does not make that much difference, but the tire section can. There was a debate here in NZ recently about the tires fitted to the Morris 8hp cars in the 1930s. The standard size was a 4.50 x 17 but the export cars mostly got 5.25 x 16. There were those who thought the 16s would give lower gearing - perhaps for our bad roads of time. There is actually negligible difference between the two sizes. One thing many forget is that without using a tachometer engine speed is hard to judge. Straight eights especially always sound busy, even at relatively low rpm. Also they are not like fuel injected moderns that will roll along at a highish cruise speed in overdrive top at 2000 or less.

Wichita Falls, Texas, maybe late teens? A chummy roadster of some sort. Maybe Haynes, or Pathfinder, or Dorris or???

Cincinatti, Ohio, 1910 according the caption with this one. Not very high res unfortunately. Locomobile?

Did that in 2015, although of course in a modern it is a piece of cake. There were times the fog was thick enough you could not see past the front of the hood. Fall River ridge in Colorado back in 1978 was more of a mission, especially in a 'sea level' car.

Maybe an electric of some sort?? There is a photo out there somewhere taken in New York around the same time which includes a car with a similar rear end.

Te Awamutu, New Zealand, early 1920s.

The car in the first picture has wood felloe wheels so is likely not later than circa 1922. A fairly large car I think.

Not only that but there is no useful info - engine number, casting date, photos etc!

This one is a British Speedwell from circa 1906. Built on French Lacoste et Battman underpinnings with, probably, a 6 hp single cylinder De Dion engine.

"On July 31, 1913, members of the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage greeted a throng of activists in Hyattsville, Maryland. Many of the assembled suffragists had driven thousands of miles to hand-deliver their petitions to their representatives in Congress. When the speeches concluded, suffragists and senators piled into awaiting automobiles and drove the six miles to Washington, D.C., in what journalists called the “Great Auto Parade.” Wes Ponder W. R. Ross Collection" Two cars in the front with distinctive radiators. Certainly not Packards. I think they may be two different makes. Similarities to Garford, Elmore, or??

Looks to be a six-cylinder Talbot.