Large Phaeton

[Vintman]

Hi Folks,

 

Would much appreciate your help on this one which seems an American car. Not sure of the country of photo but the numberplate could just be British/Colonial. British numberplates of the period had a dash after the letter. This one could be a lower dot. If British then P would have been Surrey County mid way between 1903 and 1913, so say, cca 1908. This car looks  later? It is left hand drive so not probably made/suitable in UK. Not getting anywhere so any help would be much appreciated.

 

Regards

 

Vintman (UK)

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Edited November 20, 2018 by Vintman
site mistypes our URL (see edit history)

[Vintman]

Hi, seems the AACA site will not accept our URL when typed under my name and sends you elsewhere. Try our latest Help Page at http://www.svvs.org/help136.shtml

 

Vintman

[1912Staver]

Crane - Simplex ? They usually have a plated Rad. surround however I am sure some were painted.

 

Greg in Canada

[nzcarnerd]

I thought I had seen that logo somewhere.

 

Searching Crane-Simplex - or apparently more correctly it is Simplex Crane Model No 5 - I found this pic and an interesting site with lots of logos

 

http://auto-logo.info/logo_pages/crane_simplex.shtml

[nzcarnerd]

Image search Crane-Simplex and you will find at least two with painted radiators.

 

 

[nzcarnerd]

The only thing that bothers me re this one is that the mystery car looks to have a 'splash shield' around the inside front of the chassis. None of the Cranes I found on the net have that feature.

[lump]

I noticed that the Crane-Simplex photos I saw featured nearly flat-horizontally oriented front leaf springs, with frame horns that turned sharply down to extend down to the front spring eye. The mystery car has front leaf springs with seemingly a greater upward curve in front, and frame horns which are not nearly so angled downward. 

 

Otherwise, the cars are very similar, I think.