Need Help Identifying and dating an early Truck

[WIRELESS]

Hi Everyone, you have helped me in the past & I hope you can help me again. We are giving a program on the history of wireless telegraphy

during World War I and I came across this image - I believe it was taken in Belgium, but I wonder what make & year the trucks are?

 

Thank you in advance for any help! 

Regards, Jim Kreuzer AWA Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Craig Gillingham]

They are both Daimlers; I can't tell you what year.

[Spinneyhill]

Probably with Knight sleeve valve engines. Wire wheels and curved front mudguard started ca 1909? White tires = pre ca 1914 car chassis? Gas headlights appeared on 1914 trucks but they had steel wheels; 1913 cars had electric lights?

Edited August 3, 2018 by Spinneyhill (see edit history)

[WIRELESS]

Craig, Thank you very much for identifying them as Daimlers... that gives me a great place to start.

 

Spinney, Thank you as well for all your info, all those bits point to it as being 1914 or later I guess- pretty early in WWI.

 

This website is a great resource, your members should be proud. - This is great info!

 

Best Regards, Jim Kreuzer

[Spinneyhill]

8 hours ago, WIRELESS said:

1914 or later I guess

I don't think so. Those are gas headlights and sidelights and I think they are on car chassis as well as different models. The far one has a longer bonnet. Dual wheels on the rear too.

 

P.S. I can use the term "bonnet" here because it is a British vehicle!

Edited August 4, 2018 by Spinneyhill (see edit history)

[nzcarnerd]

I guess the far vehicle is a six.

 

I suspect they were built on privately donated chassis.