A young lady with a face mask

You might note that the young girl is not only wearing a mask, but also what might be surgical gloves. So, she is well equipped to deal with the pandemic threat.

Buick in the UK was delivered by General Motors (Europe) , Ltd. (located at 136 Long Acre, London), as indicated by all Buick advertisements in the UK in the years 1915 to 1918. I don't know for 1919 and later, but I suspect this situation will have lasted at least for the years directly after the war. So possibly this European branch was the way to solve the tax problem.

Hello everyone,

Yes, it is a 1919 Buick Touring car Model H45 with a 6 cylinder overhead engine (60 horsepower) and already a delco push rod electric starter.
I own one in my Collection since 1993 when I bought the Buick from a front Yard in somerset Pennsylvania. They are very reliable cars and especially for those days back in the 1920is.

About the Girl with the mask: I think you guys all have the corona Paranoia what I can understand, but remember back in the days they had not many paved roads so the Little Girl probably did not want to breath in all the dust driving in the open Buick on a unpaved road.

Cheers to all and stay healthy

Max

This is not to disagree, but think about an example from contemporary China. You can buy lot of domestic made Buicks, Skodas or BMWs for "affordable" prices, but when you want show off that you are man of means, you spend the money for the same imported car, burdened by heavy duites / taxes, same as our case :-)

Yes, it probably is a Buick and was built at the General Motors of Canada Ltd factory in Oshawa, Ontario. That company was incorporated in 1918 and exported a number of right hand drive GM products to British Empire countries. To be considered an Empire product the company had to have a required percentage of Canadian ownership and the product had to have a certain level of this country's content in labour, parts and materials. A new car built and sold within the Empire had no duty to be paid, where as a car built outside the Empire would be hit with a 35% charge.

Messrs Gillingham, Davies and Kubista: would you consider the possibility that it's not a Buick, but rather a McLaughlin Buick? The Canadian factory had a preferential tax advantage when exporting to British Commonwealth countries, and could produce right-hand drive cars for countries such as England and Australia. Are there any differences between a US built Buick and a Canadian McLaughlin Buick? Regular correspondent Steve Diggins made the McLaughlin-Buick suggestion.

Agree with 1918 / 1919 Buick too. The secondary windshield appears to aftermarket accessory.

Nevertheless, I understand the 1918 flu epidemic was around for a good eighteen months.

1919 Buick.

Absolute nonsense, about the spanish flu., I mean.

In 1920, they didn't have criminal covidian conspiracists
like Billinda Gates to wind them up with propaganda
and other idiopathetic stories of phony plandemics....

If there was a flu that season, the laird would have
left the motor in the shed ....and gone by train.

The young lady was just being well looked-after by an
adoring mother, well versed in G Bernard Shaw's
"Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism".

She may even have been guided by intelligent advice
from a proper doctor who knew all the alternative tricks
to keeping patients warm and well ...well away from
any risk of a motorised attack of "the vapours/vapors"

If you see what I mean ;-)