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Chasing trains (Upd. not a 7.4-litre but 11.5 litre T-head six? )

Chasing trains (Upd. not a 7.4-litre but 11.5 litre T-head six? )

  • Chasing trains (Upd. not a 7.4-litre but 11.5 litre T-head six? )

Races between cars and trains have always been a popular subject for artists. The first that springs to mind is Terence Cuneo’s impressive painting of Woolf Barnato’s Bentley Speed Six chasing the Blue train from Cannes to Calais. But this is also a very dramatic scene: a 1910 4-cylinder Oldsmobile racing the 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York. This one was painted by William Hornden Foster for an Oldsmobile advertising campaign. We saw this very suggestive lithograph in the catalogue of Bonhams Auction during the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance on June 5th.

(image courtesy Bonhams)

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maandag mei 30th, 2011

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01 Juni 2011, 10:08
The Standard Catalog has a couple of misprints in relation to the Olds Limited, headlining the 1911 model as a four where in fact it is a six and much bigger than Kit mentioned. The dimensions were 5" x 6", giving an engine of 707 cid, around 11.5 litres, one of the biggest regular production automobile engines. The Autocrat model had four cylinders of the same dimensions.
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31 Mei 2011, 04:27
The painting by William H. Foster (no relation) is known as "Setting the Pace." The car racing the 20th Century Limited is the Oldsmobile Limited, powered by a 7.4-litre T-head six.
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31 Mei 2011, 01:57
Hate to be critical, but the Oldsmobile Limited was powered by an enormous 6 cylinder T-head motor, not a 4. I had one and sold it so a seventh surviving Limited could be assembled.
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