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Casper Friederich

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  1. Photo taken 1.1.1929 or later, when the cinema theatre Regina was opened in Helsinki. It changed name in February 1933 to Unika. The place today:https://www.google.com/maps/@60.1758634,24.9510197,3a,75y,114.59h,85.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suMJcjSVLyOLRRJMzTGI2_A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu In fact there is a small movie theatre even today in the building, last year I saw a small independent film there. The house was the largest apartment buildning in the Finish capital when it was ready in the 1920s, it inhabitated more people than some older small towns like Naantali or Uusikaarlepyy.
  2. Charles Montier and his mechanic at the 1923 Le Mans https://www.hemmings.com/stories/montier-ford-first-le-mans/
  3. In fact Ian Fleming was racing driver Donald Healey's co-pilot on the 1932 Alpine Trial https://www.classicandsportscar.com/features/driving-donald-healeys-monte-winning-invicta-low-chassis https://scarfandgoggles.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/flemings-first-assignment/
  4. Model T Tudor and Fordor in front of a fresh apartment block in Kallio, then 1927 the working class district in Helsinki. The Tudor seems a bit newer, equipped with bumbers. Is there a Roman number II on it's door, indicating it was a Taxi-cab? Ford Model T would have more likely belonged to the cheaper class III. Maybe the older Fordor at least was owned by the building contractor. Practical with a closed car for visiting building sites even in the winter as in the photo.
  5. I think now that body is by Gläser. More information on the German small Fords of the 30s:https://www.classicandsportscar.com/news/csc-features/ford-eifel-a-sharper-c
  6. German 1935-36 Ford Eifel with 1,2 Litre engine with a open body by a unknown coachbuilder
  7. Beautified Ford or a Mercury-bodied Ford Model T in Helsinki, Finland. From Suomen Moottorilehti August 1925 where it's mentioned that it was brought from Sweden by a Ford dealer
  8. My late uncle was quite a huge boxing fan, at least in his youth. I knew that Jack Dempsey had a McFarlan. My uncle thougt that Muhammed Ali was greater than Dempsey. McFarlan vs. Claymobile in my opinion...
  9. The four-door Buick in photos nr 2 and 3 has a Danish coachwork commissioned by General Motors in Scandinavia. It was called "the silver fish" due to its paint. Remember reading about it in the Swedish Wheels Magazine in 1982 at a tender age.
  10. German two-stoke front-wheel drive DKWs, the convertible is a F7 Luxus Cabriolet
  11. Finnish participants in the 1932 Swedish Gran Prix at lake Rämen. Karl A. Ebb's blown Mercedes-Benz, the car still exist in a collection in Sweden. BTW in the post-war period he lived in the next block to where I now live here in Helsinki.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ebb http://www.bertillindbladsstiftelse.se/mercedesbenzen.htm Behind it baron John Ramsay's modified six-cylinder Chrysler Imperial.
  12. Racing driver Felice Nazzaro with 1933 Fiat 508 S. Yes, the red Z gauge car in my avatar is the coupe version, called 508 Balilla Mille Miglia Berlinetta
  13. Isn't that a prewar German licence plate? Prefix IA- indicates Berlin, foreign cars were popular amongst well to do people in the late 20s there.
  14. I have seen this very car in 1981 at Svedino's automobile museum in Sweden
  15. I am convinced that it's a Christie. Funny that I didn't never thought how it looked from the rear perspective.
  16. The production version had a better looking front in my opinion. The insurance companies were against front-wheel drive when it first come out on the market, too dangerous... There's a website dedicated to these 1925-31 models, but is it still working? http://www.hells-confetti.com/
  17. The two first photos are of Wanderers, nr. 1 a six-cylinder and nr 2. a four-cylinder. Also a Hanomag 3/16 in the later photo, the smal sedan facing the back with it's spare tire to the viewer. The three last pictures depicts various eight-cylinder Horch convertibles
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