MassingNickel Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) Interesting photo of a car in Sweden, but I'm failing to identify the make of the car. Any thoughts? The photo comes from Arboga Museums fotoarkiv (the Arboga Museum photo archive). https://www.arbogamuseum.se/Foto/fotografier.php?nrinrow=3907 Edited August 3, 2020 by MassingNickel (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 AACA seemed to compress the image, so here's a better version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif Holmberg Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Could the reg.number be A999? if so, in 1910 it was registred on Albin Herman Gustavsson Droskägare???? No name on the car so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 I'm very unsure about the registration number, but the middle digit looks different than the first and last, so maybe A989 or A282? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) I think I have solved what it is. I think it's a NAG. It could even be the same one as this one (A282): Edited August 3, 2020 by MassingNickel (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif Holmberg Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Registrated owner in 1907 A282 Gustav Eriksson Automobilfabrik ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) 28 minutes ago, MassingNickel said: I think I have solved what it is. I think it's a NAG. It could even be the same one as this one (A282): Not the same car. Notice the curves of the fenders on the NAG. Plus one is a touring and one is a town car. Edited August 3, 2020 by keiser31 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 It was not uncommon in these days for luxury cars to have two coachworks, one "summer body" and one "winter body". So it could be the same car with just the body switched. There are also probably a couple of years between the photos, in the winter photo the car seems new and in the summer photo it seems used, so that could explain why some details doesn't match. But I am not at all sure that it is the same car, it just seems like such a coincidence that they would be so similar, and that the registration numbers seem like they could match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 1 minute ago, MassingNickel said: It was not uncommon in these days for luxury cars to have two coachworks, one "summer body" and one "winter body". So it could be the same car with just the body switched. There are also probably a couple of years between the photos, in the winter photo the car seems new and in the summer photo it seems used, so that could explain why some details doesn't match. But I am not at all sure that it is the same car, it just seems like such a coincidence that they would be so similar, and that the registration numbers seem like they could match. Yep. Common to have more than one body, but those fenders.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 You might be right, we will probably never know for certain. Anyway, the important thing is that the make of the car is identified as a NAG (given that the car in the photo posted by Leif in the linked post was correctly identified). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanski Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I have never seen any pictures of a NAG with that shape of radiator. Can you tell me more which model is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariejan NL Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Both cars are ca 1908 Darracq. This radiator shape was one of the types used for the larger models. Besides I don't believe these to be the same car, too many differences. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 Thanks Ariejan for correcting this identification. I based it on the older post, which turned out to be wrong. You are definitively correct about it being a Darracq, and probably correct in them being different cars too, it was just all the similarities that got me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif Holmberg Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 How about a photo of the Darracq,? I could only find one picture of a Darracq race car,I also found a Motobloc car with a radiator badge similar to the car in question from mässing-nickel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted August 4, 2020 Author Share Posted August 4, 2020 Here's a couple photos of similar Darracqs. https://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A245334 https://www.alamy.com/a-darracq-2032-four-cylinder-motor-car-licence-plate-or-registration-plate-number-h-2554-photograph-taken-in-reading-in-england-in-1906-it-has-an-aa-automobile-association-radiator-badge-number-5464-fitted-the-driver-can-be-seen-wearing-a-large-fur-driving-coat-image242283330.html https://www.alamy.com/a-darracq-2032-four-cylinder-motor-car-licence-plate-or-registration-plate-number-h-2554-photograph-taken-in-reading-in-england-in-1906-it-has-an-aa-automobile-association-radiator-badge-number-5464-fitted-image242283301.html https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1907-ad-darracq-motor-car-company-winner-vanerbilt-cup-original-advertising-072417-tsm1-159 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ariejan NL Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 The Motobloc posted by Leif Holmberg is not a Motobloc, but a 1907 Mieusset. A bit more rare than a Motobloc! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipdang Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Wow. Just plain wow. This group will always amaze me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHa Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 The car has Solarclipse Auto Focus headlights. They are big, beautiful, and expensive, both then and now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassingNickel Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 Today I stumbled upon another picture of a Darracq in Sweden, again with number plate A282. The photo was taken outside Gustaf Ericsson's Automobile facory in Stockholm. This seems to be the same car as the original photo in this thread. And it seems they reused the same number plate as the Darracq limousine from the earlier post. Photo from the Swedish Museum of Technology in Stockholm: https://digitaltmuseum.se/021016315081/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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