JRA Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 On 7/20/2022 at 10:31 AM, twin6 said: Is it a Kissel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Here's the Anne Pennington photo, in case the link doesn't work for some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George K Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Sheepshead Bay had a race track. Chalmers. Photo of her on stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Somewhere West - Packard requires a better look. Wonder if the fellow standing on the running board was Charles Lindbergh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 Regarding the Ann Pennington photo - note the car she is resting her uh - rumble seat on - 😉 plus the two other cars in the back ground are all touring cars with a rear "cape top". Makes one wonder if there were a display of these as a body style at the event? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Locked? Another fine mess you've gotten us into... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 (edited) 1932 Studebaker President Eight Series 91 2dr State St. Regis Brougham. And here are better looks at two: Edited July 22, 2022 by 58L-Y8 added improved images (see edit history) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 11 hours ago, JRA said: Is it a Kissel? I don't know, but hopefully someone will identify it as well as the license plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Saxon? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JRA Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 11 hours ago, twin6 said: I have seen pictures of other cars in this same location. Where is it? Does it still exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LI_BENTLEY Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 7/15/2022 at 10:29 PM, Varun Coutinho said: 1910 Matheson 50Hp Model E 7-Passenger Touring Photo Attached - Detroit Public Library : 1908 - 1909 Matheson 50Hp (Big Four) 7-Passenger Touring Notice the car with the top up has a generator and gas tank for the headlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, twin6 said: Saxon? 1917 or so Chandler. Edited July 23, 2022 by keiser31 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCK81403 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Two photos of the Farman with license plate number 2243 exist. One photo has the "Farman" word printed on it and the second appears to be cropped and without the Farman word. A third photo of a similar Farman displays plate number 475?. The photo appears to have been taken at a gathering or vehicle display (seen in the background at right). Across the grass field is a banner for De Deion Bouton, and another displaying La Franch??? Diamant. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanski Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 10 hours ago, twin6 said: I don't know, but hopefully someone will identify it as well as the license plate. Rickenbacker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Guitar Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 7 hours ago, JRA said: I have seen pictures of other cars in this same location. Where is it? Does it still exist? This is 31 Boulevard du Commandant Charcot, Neuilly-sur-Seine (at the time it was the Chateau de Madrid). The woman in the photo is probably the Romanian born French actress Alice Cocea on her way to the Concours d'Elegance Feminine in the Bois de Boulogne (1927 or 1928). The building still exists. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Guitar Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 6 hours ago, LCK81403 said: Two photos of the Farman with license plate number 2243 exist. One photo has the "Farman" word printed on it and the second appears to be cropped and without the Farman word. A third photo of a similar Farman displays plate number 475?. The photo appears to have been taken at a gathering or vehicle display (seen in the background at right). Across the grass field is a banner for De Deion Bouton, and another displaying La Franch??? Diamant. The last photo is Alice Cocéa at the Concours d'Elegance held June 5th 1925 at Parc des Princes, Paris. La Francaise Diamant made bicycles and motorcycles. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hook Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 On 7/18/2022 at 12:49 AM, LCK81403 said: An interesting engineering solution to achieve a soft ride? Presumably those are coil springs in the wheels. ? I bet traction was less than great and lets see them in mud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 35 minutes ago, hook said: I bet traction was less than great and lets see them in mud. How about on a race car at Indy?? Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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30DodgePanel Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 I don't recall ever seeing this one.... Not far from what they are still using I can't even imagine what a postal worker would feel like at the end of the day in one of these. I'm counting four different rims. Crazy... NO idea what the front ones are from. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 11 hours ago, twin6 said: Any history known about this photo? IE city, make, year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 43 minutes ago, 30DodgePanel said: Any history known about this photo? IE city, make, year.. Must be a wealthy municipality. Some rather expensive touches on that sweeper, including beveled glass windshield and door windows, and shiny brass radiator, not cast iron as would be associated with most heavy commercial trucks back then. Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 No history, I believe it's NYC. I got a chuckle out of the little "potato" horn on such a big machine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Regal? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Walt G Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 4 hours ago, Andrew46Coupe said: This is 31 Boulevard du Commandant Charcot, Neuilly-sur-Seine (at the time it was the Chateau de Madrid) SO GREAT to read that this structure is still existing! wow. ( I love older architecture as much as I do cars, have been to the top/crown area of the Chrysler Building in NY City - NO I don't like height but to be in the room that was the "Cloud Club" at one time I found ( sort of ) the courage ) The mascot on the Farman in the photos is magnificent, I look at one in my collection every day , I have some Farman sales literature and period photos too of that era, a car not well known or appreciated in the USA. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 I'll guess the Farman town car coachbuilder was Saoutchik. Here are better looks at the fancy street sweeper and Mr. & Mrs. Bloomfield with their sazzy new runabout. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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edinmass Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Walt G said: SO GREAT to read that this structure is still existing! wow. ( I love older architecture as much as I do cars, have been to the top/crown area of the Chrysler Building in NY City - NO I don't like height but to be in the room that was the "Cloud Club" at one time I found ( sort of ) the courage ) The mascot on the Farman in the photos is magnificent, I look at one in my collection every day , I have some Farman sales literature and period photos too of that era, a car not well known or appreciated in the USA. Farman are scarce……I have seen two in person, and had a ride in one. Felt like a three Liter Bentley…..I think they made multiple sizes and chassis……..the one I rode in was a 1924 or there abouts……..not as big as the car in the photo….but very well done. Edited July 23, 2022 by edinmass (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 Yes, Farman had several size cars. Totally cool in every respect in my opinion. I will take a photo of the mascot and brochures together and post here. They were fairly well covered in the European press/periodicals when new , like Minerva were unusual even then but high quality. I really enjoy obscure cars especially of the larger chassis and engine capacity . Big horsepower Renaults - Reinastella are also so odd to see or even read about - even in Europe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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30DodgePanel Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 (edited) Would be curious to know if this building still exists and if the current owners are aware of what it's use was. Great photo, I love how it captures all the subtle movement that would have taken place throughout a day. Edited July 23, 2022 by 30DodgePanel (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 How are cars going into the 2nd floor? I can't believe that is a ramp at right. The building strikes me as enormous, but then everything is bigger in Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Larry Schramm Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 A ramp that steep was not uncommon. I called on a Buick dealer in Birmingham, Al which at the time had the shop on the second floor and the only way to get to the shop was to go up a ramp like that, and that was in the 1980's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twin6 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Cadillac? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Guitar Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 6 hours ago, 58L-Y8 said: I'll guess the Farman town car coachbuilder was Saoutchik. Here are better looks at the fancy street sweeper and Mr. & Mrs. Bloomfield with their sazzy new runabout. The Farman is described in the Parc des Princes photos as having a factory body (carrosserie Farman). https://www.farman.fr/qui-sommes-nous/un-siecle-dhistoire-industrielle?lang=en 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Here is why I guess Saoutchik might have been the coachbuilder: the belt-line surfaces and door shapes seem to match. Perhaps they were typical of French coachbuilding practice at the time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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