Casper Friederich

The University Town of Lund, Sweden. Can You spot the Rolls-Royce 40/50 parked outside the Savings Bank...

Same Place, different years and cars. Small Town on the Swedish west coast, near Gothenburg. I think the car on the far left side is a Scania-Vabis 2S. The light colored smaller car with wire wheels is a four-cylinder 1921-24 Steyr IV A German 1934-35 Opel 1,2 Litre is lurking among the Americans, probably a late 20s Fiat besides it.Two soft top Ford Model A:s including a Phaeton. In the last postcard the European small cars are coming even steadily. Front-Wheel drive and two-stroke DKW, the Opel besides it narrows down the time period to 1938-39

An early British Austin Seven. The model was introduced in 1922, but really caught on about five years latter.

1924 big six-cylinder Fiat 519 with Swedish coachwork. Lärkstaden, then very fashionable city district, in the background

1912 Gregoire Triple Berline

The original Burney Streamliner, before Crossley of Manchester was involved.

The British Crossley Streamliner based on sir Dennistoun Burney design and launched at the 1933 London Motor show

In Sweden the Oldsmobile Curved Dash was the most popular private car in the early days of motoring. Prince Eugen (1865-1947) in his car at Djurgården, Stockholm https://www.waldemarsudde.se/in-english/prince-eugen/ I think the man in the second photo worked for the Swedish Olds Importer Gjestvagns and latter founded his own Company, importing one of the more popular American automobiles

Same Place, Gustaf Adolfs torg in Stockholm with the Opera in the background. Can't help noticing the Volvo besides the Cord in your photo. I am sure mine photo is a little bit earlier.

Country fair in the Southern parts of Sweden 1939.The only European car I can see is a brand new German Ford Taunus in the upper left corner

The Swedish Wheels magazine that I subscribed to from a tender age promised in the early 1980s an in deepth comparasion between the stylistic similarities of the American Ford Model 40 and the French Citroën Traction Avant. That feature was never publized, interesting subject although.

1925 Simson Supra, twin overhead cam engine. Made in Germany, unfortunately not exported

Another swing-axle equipped Austrian, in fact the 1,6 Litre Steyr XII came a year earlier than Austro-Daimler's ADR. There was also the Austro-Fiat 1001 with no resemblance to anything from the mother company in Turin, but the chassis was mainly used for vans and light trucks. This XII from 1926 has a German coachwork by Jos. Neuss, Berlin. It pre-dated the more familiar three-seater Convertible version in the factory catalogue, shown bellow.

Austro-Daimler got a swing rear axle from the 1927 ADR onwards.

1925 McFarlan Single Valve Six, the smaller and cheaper model with Wisconsin engine. It was offered for sale in Motor Trend 1954.

Armbruster's coachwork on a Grät & Stift Sp5, shown at the 1929 Concours d'Elegance in Vienna.

Thanks! I thought that I had deleted this photo.

Buick ad by Osterman's. In the background Storkyrkan, the Royal wedding church in Stockholm

1924 Voisin 18cv

Yes, Cadillac indeed. Motor car of then privately owned Bergslagernas järnvägar, recently electrified.

Quite a copycat although. I must confess that the twin rows of louvers in front of the bonnet gave me doubts. As a photographer's prop it make sense not beeing a Renault, as they were early on quite popular in their native France. The factory in Billancount produced not enought to satisfy the export market.

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!