Casper Friederich

Carlton Carriage's 1937 Chrysler Imperial Sports Saloon

Jean Bugatti in about 1930, the car is a three-litre Type 44 with 3/4 -seater Fiacre coachwork.

"La Coquette" an Austro-Daimler bodied by Armbruster of Vienna for Richard von Stern. Painted in yellow and black, must have been very fashionable in 1912!

Speaking of Snake skin upholstery, the dual cowl Hispano-Suiza phaeton at the 1927 Paris Motor Show imediately comes to my mind. It was built for prince Mousouros? by Bourack & de Costier and was one of the most expensive cars at that year's show.

It's a Panhard-Levassor with body by Gaston Grummer, the lady is Nadine Picard. Once again Parc des Princes, the event is 1927 Concours d'Elegance.

Interior of Alexis Kellner bodied Minerva at Hans Osterman's showroom in Fall 1924.

I am pretty sure it's a Commonwealth, the last was made in 1922 when Morris Markin of Checker Taxi cab fame took over the company.

According to COACHBUILD.com Carrosserie Janoir was situated in the Northern suburbs of Paris. Interestingly that site gives the time span 1925-1939, eventhough the Peugeot Coupé Madame is featured and it was completed before 1st of July 1924! The site has a Delahaye and a couple of Delages with bodies by Janoir, but they are all convertibles built on Baehr's patent

Concours d'Elegance at Parc des Princes 1924. Peugeot Coupé Madame by Janoir. Bellow a Bignan with body by Monnier. The 1919-1931 produced Bignan was famous for three things:Desmodromic valves on sports/racing models, only front-wheel brakes and Jacques Bignan winning the 1928 Monte Carlo Rally in a Fiat 509 while still a car manufacturer in his own right!

Philipson's ad for Cord on the back cover of Bonniers Månadsmagasin in 1930. Interesting as the front-wheel drive American is absent from the list of car models in the Royal Swedish Automobileclub's almanach/handbook for that year, eventhough Rolls-Royce and Isotta-Fraschini are listed

A Fiat 501 2-door sedan with assymetrically placed doors photograped 1924 in Roslagen, Sweden. Very unusual with disk-wheels on a vintage Fiat, they were reserved for their taxi-cabs. I think the car belonged to Gustaf L. M. Ericsson, son of the Swedish telephone Pioneer.

Convertible body by Austrian F. Keibl according to Allgemeine Automobil Zeitung (A) 1.7.1927. There were also a similary looking Hispano-Suiza and an Isotta-Fraschini by the Viennese coachbuilder, the latter wrongly labbeled as a Steyr Austria by Werner Oswald in his otherwise eminent Deutsche Autos 1920-40.

1927 Peugeot Type 172 R, development of the Quadrilette 1924 Citroën 10cv 2-door Sedan, assymetrical placed doors. Fiat had a similar body on it's immortal 501 Chassis

I am flattered! BTW The car to the right in my last photo, could it be a Studebaker as it has suicide front doors? Clearly the driver is showing off his fancy boots!

In the background a small town taxistation in Finland. From my grandfather's album, taken in Porvoo about 1927.

Kissel Enclosed Speedster at the 1924 New York Auto Show

Big Renault, Golden medal at the 1924 Pars Concours d'Elegance

Almost teutonic soft top! The rear view of the Mercedes-Benz 540K and it's Horch equilavent with top down was bescribed as restricted. Waterhouse's Victorias on Stutz and Packard chassis make sense!

REO taxicab from Svensk Motortidning 1924. There were attempts to put American-styled cars in the taxifleet of Stockholm already in the roaring 20s. Interesting from my Finnish perspective, as there was a car dealer overhere who thought by importing second-hand Checkers he could modernize the prewar dominated taxifleet in our capital in time before the 1952 Olympics...

Packard with Limousine body by C.W. Jacobsson & Co. in Stockholm, predecessor to Norrmalm's with quite a lot of the staff continuing to work for the latter. The photo was originally publized in 1924.

I feel a bit intimidiating to post anything to this thread, so many movie stars with their classic cars! However, in the pre-Hollywood times German and Danish melodramas ruled the silver screen. In 1917 early movie star Valdemar Psilander was drivning a three year old Bug with similar Yankee clover-leaf body by Durr as above, with Copenhagen issued licence plate K 40 in the film Kaerlighedes-Vaeddmaalet: www.bugattibuilder.com/photo/displayimage.php?pos=-38098

A couple of sporting Fiat 501's from Sweden. The first one with the lady driver is a factory job, 501S introduced 1921 and had four hp more than the standard model. The second has a racing body by Wittboldt & Ström in Stockholm.

Erik Åkerlund's eight cylinder 1924 Bugatti Type 30 1924 built garage in Stockholm, Sweden. Rolls-Royce, Minerva and Buick