Early Roadster, Ford T perhaps

[Gunsmoke]

This photo was posted on FB titled "First car in Neil's Harbour". a small and remote fishing village in North Eastern Cape Breton, NS, Canada. I'm sure someone on here can pin down make, model and year. Driver was apparently the proud owner, and roads in that area (circa 1920) would have been horse and wagon trails over some serious hills/mountains (rising about 1000 feet above this village)(not high by some standards, but no doubt a challenge for cars and horses back then).

[JFranklin]

1916 FORD Roadster.

[Layden B]

Canadian production 1916 Model T Ford right hand drive. Ford called them a Runabout but are you sure this is not a touring? Behind the front seat there looks to be the top of a rear touring door.

[wayne sheldon]

Definitely a touring car. The body's top irons and top saddles are not where they would be on the runabout body. As Layden said, it does appear to have the top of the rear door behind the seat, but the top irons really clinch it. On the touring car, the front seat top/socket irons are near the back of the side of the front seat, and the top saddles are at the near back of the rear seat. The runabout's front/only seat has the top saddles near the back of the seat. The top socket/irons are only about three inches back of the front edge of the front seat. This arrangement is necessary so that the top sockets have both the mounting irons and the saddles in the short space of the single seat, allowing the top when folded to lay securely between the two.

 

As to whether it is right hand drive or not? I can't be sure. I don't see anything in the photo to verify that it hasn't at some point been reversed. No license plate, no house numbers, and I cannot make out the "Ford" script on the radiator. I also cannot see the horn button or bulb, either can often determine if a photo has been flipped. 

One man's shirt buttons seem to indicate the photo may have been flipped. However, I have learned over the years that shirt buttons weren't always a reliable indictor. I have several original era shirts that have a pleat down the front, that can sometimes place a shadow on the wrong side. (And I have seen men's shirts that buttoned on the "wrong" side.)

[JFranklin]

Agree it is not a roadster, or was madified.

Edited January 27, 2023 by JFranklin (see edit history)

[arcticbuicks]

back when Canada was still both  right hand drive and left hand drive and driving on the left side of the road.....or the right depending where lol ......mostly eastern Canada and in BC on west coast..........in random provinces........boy it must have been confusing !........travel into next province on same road and switch sides of the road 

Edited January 27, 2023 by arcticbuicks (see edit history)