Casper Friederich

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

Radio onboard at AVUS track in Berlin 1924. The car is probably a NAG.

Automobile club meeting in the summer of 1924 at Söderhamn, Sweden. Besides Ford and Overland even a brand new Buick and a French looking Tourer, Peugeot or Amilcar perhaps?

Swedish coachbuilding again, this time on a more humble chassis. Ford Model T with body by Stockholms Hofslageri AB, from Svensk Motortidning 1924

Figurally I am staying in the western parts of Scandinavia. Many of the big Swedish junkyards were near the Norwegian border, in the latter country import restrictions om western cars after WWII. I think the photos from 1961 therefore are taken in the province of Värmland. Tatraplan in the lower left corner, also some American iron. Isn't there an early postwar Studebaker among Standard Vanguards and other British stuff?

In fact, a "much seen" early 30s Norrmalm's convertible is on the cover of Björn-Eric Lindh's Volvo history, depending of course on the edition. That 1933 Volvo PV 655 is the only Normalm's bodied car left in Sweden.

Mainly US made cars touring in Norway 1924. This photo reminds me when I begann our equilavent to junior highschool, the Swedish Teknikens Värld was subscribed by their school library! Remember the ad for a 1916-17 Mercer Touring project car, but can't remember anymore if the seller was Swedish or Norwegian. Today there's a very fine restored 22/72 Touring from 1916 in the latter country, so I think that the car from the 1982 ad is now in Norway.

The lower photo shows a 1913-14 8 Valve Bugatti Type 22. The body style was called Yank[ee] by Durr of Colmar, inspired probably by the Hupmobile Model 32. First time ever seeing one equipped with a top, checked therefore Bugatti Trust's photo archive. I believe it's the same car as wearing British licence number LK 6619, issued in London. Chassis number unknown.

Back then motor ambulances were scarce in the Nordic countries, especially in the country side. Therefore very handy if the Doctor had a private automobile of this kind with reclining passenger seat that could transport urgent cases to the nearby hospital. The Thulin A25 and it's sibling the German AGA were quite small cars for their day in a time when most buyers in Sweden opted for larger American cars. A car especially for the country Doctor was a selling point