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A Scottish car mystery
We hope you all had a good weekend. Do you know what is so wonderful about it being Monday again? That today we have a new Monday Mystery for you!
We do not have a lot of information about this week’s mystery car. So that is why also this time we call for your help to solve the mystery. Walter who sent in this cut-out photograph was given the photo when he bought the remains of the pre-war car we see. The gentlemen standing next to the car is in all likely hood the chauffeur / driver of the car when it was used as a taxi in Inverness, a city in the Scottish Highlands. Here the car was operational up to 1935.
That is all we know really. Hence requesting more information. Please comment below.
Words by the editor. Photograph sent in by Walter Nieuwkoop.
Gepubliceerd:
maandag september 24th, 2018
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Jaap ter Linden
25 September 2018, 17:29
Walter Nieuwkoop
25 September 2018, 08:57
Always suspected it was a Benz. What's why I bought it in the first place, but only recently found out the body was built in Edinburgh by Liddle and Johnston and the car was apparently used as a taxi in Inverness till about 1935. I was hoping to find out more about the coachbuilders as well as its life in Inverness and surroundings. The numberplate I don't have and not sufficient can be see on the photograph. The front of the passenger compartment has original curved glass which I think is very unusual for a vehicle of 1912, I am now restoring the car for it fell apart in transport. Bonnet, fenders, running boards, etc are all missing.
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Michael Schlenger
25 September 2018, 23:59
A very ambitious project - good luck! Maybe, its worthwhile to contact Dieter Dressel from the Central Garage in Bad Homburg/Germany, since he is a serious and knowledgeable collector of early Benzes and could be able to help... If you require his contact details please send me an email: [email protected]
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Jaap ter Linden
24 September 2018, 22:51
Walter Nieuwkoop:
Could you explain that more specific ?
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Could you explain that more specific ?
Walter Nieuwkoop
24 September 2018, 17:52
Indeed it is a Benz, but the body was made in Edinburgh. The landaulet hinge mechanism has revealed the date of 1912.
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Michael Schlenger
24 September 2018, 23:29
So you already knew that the photos show a Benz and that the remnants of the car you bought are from the very Benz, as well?
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Michael Schlenger
24 September 2018, 00:33
I'd say it's a Benz from c.1912. I have attached a vintage photo from my collection showing a very similar Benz with landaulet body. I've flipped the print horizontally, hence the mirror-inverted German number plate...
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I hope to see the result of your restauration .
Courage !
Jaap ter Linden.