Post your unidintified vehicle photos here.

[Larrister]

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[R MICHAEL]

Bill, shame this image is double exposed.... It looks to me like another adler. I could be wrong since this one is from the side and not from the front as my other.. It is defintly not the same car as my last post... Mike

[Bill Murray]

Evening Larrister:


Thanks for the additional photos, particularly the first one.

I definitely do not want to beat up on you, but Ford vehicles are one of my special areas of research and I can assure you that your vehicle is not a Ford.

I am hunting a number of Google site searches but still come up with nothing more than what I have posted earlier.

Based on going through every British, Italian, French, German, Czech etc. vehicle history book I have in my collection, I have to stick with my choice that the vehicle is of American origin. The only caveat to that statement is that Humber (GB) did have a vehicle similar in appearance to your photo but I had always thought they were produced 100% RHD. Your photo is not reversed, at least according to the registration plate and it seems to me to be LHD. I will pursue that thought process as far as I can. Sadly, I do not have a really good history book of Humber (Rootes} in my archives that deal with civilian vehicles, only military.

Unless there is someone out there that knows a lot more than I do about such a vehicle, I am sort of at an impasse and cannot give you a definitive answer.

BTW, the other Reo pics I had were not of any assistance. They were of coachbuilt US delivered vehicles and differed in many respects from your photo.

Bill

[Bill Murray]

Morning Larrister:

Folowing on with #77, the Humber did not work nor did several other British vehicles I thought of, Hillman etc. So, I have passed the photo on to some friends, who are automotive historians as opposed to military vehicle historians, to see if they can help us. My "totally unidentified" file is now at about six vehicles and I am, if nothing else, persistent. I am sure we will pin this one down as it is a very clear photo taken from a favourable angle.
Cheers
Bill

[s.pak]

hi larrister

For your photo 77, I think that the winner is S.Pak .
After many research
Your mistery car is a studebaker mod 1934, certainly with a European body, can be Dutch bodywork by Pennock of "La Hague" or other dutch firm.

It is the bumper very caracteristic of the studebaker mod 33/34 which put to me on the way.
regards patrick

[Bill Murray]

Patrick:

You may well have taken the prize. This is one of several photos showing pretty good ID characteristics. Sorry it is an American "Street Rod" but it shows a lot of what we were looking for.
Bill

[Bill Murray]

Here is one with the proper front bumper

[Bill Murray]

And one more to put this one to bed.

Bill

[Larrister]

Hello Patrick,

Well done! Fine piece of detective work in identifying the car in my photo.

Hello Bill,

Great pics! I have put the last photo you posted onto my photo so that they can be compared. Thanks to both of you for your help.

Best regards,
Larrister

[Bill Murray]

Patrick:

I suspect you must be a secret researcher on civilian cars as well as military.
Rather few Europeans would have made that ID, especially so someone from France where American cars never really penetrated the market as they did in Benelux, Scandinavia and some of the Eastern European countries. Once you hit the right key, it was easy to check out.
Congratulations
Now, who comes up with another challenge??
Bill

[Larrister]

Hi Bill,

Here's another unusual truck that is in my collection. I cannot find anything like it in my reference books. I'm sure that I have seen something like it before but I don't remember where. Note the extra wheels on the front. Any ideas as to their use?

Larrister

[Bill Murray]

Morning Larrister:

I was waiting for Patrick to ID this for you but he must be busy.
Your vehicle is a French Laffly, I think an S15T model Arty Tractor.
Cheers
Bill

[Bill Murray]

Morning again Larrister:

I just got an email from the UK and none other than Jim Benjaminson, a very well known American author/researcher who specializes in Chrysler products, also ID'd your car as a 34 Studebaker. Amazing how our quests for information bounce from one continent to the other. I send an email to the UK, my mate there sends it back to the US (Jim), he sends it back to the UK, he sends the answer back here to me and I post it for someone in NZ to read.
Cheers
Bill

[s.pak]

hi Larrister, nice photo

good ID by Bill, this is a Laffly S15T arty tractor for 75mm and 105c

regards patrick

[Bill Murray]

Morning Patrick:

Thank you for the confirmation. And to answer Larrister's other question, are not the front mounted small wheels used to help in rough cross-country driving like getting across obstacles, ditches and the like??
Regards
Bill