Letters to the Editor

Dreamcar found with First Free Advert.

Author: Joris Bergsma Tuesday, 08 June 2010

After having been surching for my dreamcar for over 5 years, I have found one after placing a wanted add on your site. A great help.

Thanks,

Ronald Zieltjes

About First Free Adverts

Author: Joris Bergsma Friday, 21 May 2010

When placing an add, one of the first fields required is asking if the add. is to be a 'first free add'

actually mine was a free add but not my first one so some confusion here. 

Christopher Musk




editor:

Dear Christopher,

With the new website we gave a 'first' free ad to all private sellers, maybe we should have stated this more clearly.

Even more, in fact you have not One, but Four (4) free adverts, whatever the price of the vehicle or item involved:

1 Free prewar car/bike ad
1 Free prewar parts ad

1 Free postwar car/bike ad
1 Free postwar parts ad

Then with regard to second and further ads,
all vehicles and all parts below a certain pricelevel
(see submission form) are free of charge anyway.

hope this helps,

Joris Bergsma

a constant distraction from work

Author: Joris Bergsma Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Your website is a constant distraction from my work and I will not be surprised if my boss somehow bans it from office computers. Congrats on a great site! I hope you're making some money from it.

Best regards from Chicago,
David Kerr


editor:

Dear David, we won't tell your boss. We'll ask the other 7000 daily visitors to remain silent as well.

about Downloading pictures

Author: Joris Bergsma Thursday, 06 May 2010

I am saddened to see that we can no longer save pictures from the site.
It gave me the opportunity to build up a virtual collection. So long as they had the owners name and Prewarcar logo on them, they could not be published, without consent.
If they displayed those identifiers on them, then I felt it was ok to save them to my personal library.

Ok, ... for people selling pictures, for which I assume they have obtained copyright, then they can block saving, but for ordinary car sales and the regular articles, are we getting so paranoid, that we must restrict what we can get from the web.
If people don't want viewers to download their photos, then don't put them up for show ! Keep them hidden away. Write a book !
However, it's difficult to get some books out here, Thailand doesn't support, the Amazon.coms, etc., therefore they will not ship books to here, and the booksellers find it too dificult to order them. Things do go missing or get lost, at customs sometimes.

Stuart Penketh

Editor:  Stuart we wonder what your routine in saving pictures is? 1. Bring your mouse to a picture... 2.click right side of mouse....3. choose download option....4. Ready! .............And this is only one of maybe 5 or 7 different ways to download pictures from this website.  There is NO WAY to stop people from downloading pictures from websites.  As we are aware of this we have not taken any extra precautions than the standard ones.

Now if you download pictures with the intention to use in a magazine or a book, of course we like to be notified.
But for personal use... Be our guest!

More about the German Politician Mystery

Author: Editor Rutger Booy Saturday, 01 May 2010

Dear Mr. Editor

I am sorry that I first now have had time to follow up my answer to what a car Mr. Rupp is photographed in. I am surprised that you still maintain that the car should be a Steiger. Because it has a pointed radiator like almost all German car brands had it in time just after the 1st World War.

 

I have just looked in the book by Michael Schick Steiger Die Geschichte einer Schwäbischen Autofabrik in den 20er Jahren. In the book, there are pictures of two different versions of Steigers pointed radiators. And although many brands had pointed radiators that looks nearly the same, there were also some one who had a more distinctive look than others, and both Steigers radiator shapes was quite characteristic and can usually easily be distinguished from other brands of radiators.

 Both Steigers pointed radiators had a characteristic prominent peak at the top of the water tank, but it can be difficult to distinguish on your picture because the copy is rather blurry (maybe more details can be seen on the original image?). The first version of Steigers pointed radiators had beyond the peak at the top also curved sides along the radiator element, and I can not see that on the car on your image.

The second version of Steigers pointed radiators had also the peak at the top, but it was much more edgy and the radiator element had quite square corners. And not the rounded corners, as the car on their image has.




























Besides the two versions of the pointed radiators Steiger is known to have produced. There exist a sketch of an other radiator version still with the peak at the top, but with rounded corners at the top of radiator element as on your image, but with a narrower edge between the radiator element and the outside of the radiator cap, than the radiator on the car in your picture has. (Whether this version was ever produced is a question. Because there are none of the book's about. 100 photographs showing that radiator version)


















My theory on that car probably is an Adler 9 / 24 PS is based on my general knowledge about the brand and Werner Oswald's book Adler Automobile 1900 - 1945, which appeared for almost 30 years ago, but it do not treat the story nearly as thorough as Michael Schick book. Unfortunately I can not show a picture of exactly the same model as the car on your image. I've seen pictures of some smaller models with a pointed radiator that reminds me about that in your picture. And there is a picture of Oswald's book from the early twenties showing a car with a similar radiator shape, but apparently with a more modern element radiator with radiator fins finer than those seen in your picture, (Or maybe it is just an inferior image quality in the book). In contrast to the slightly coarser fins at your picture. The coarser fin design, I know that Adler used up to and during the world war.




















The old version of the Adler script









I do not think the car in the picture can be a Stoewer because their pointed radiators had a more rounded design on top. I have looked after in what I could find of books on brand Stower. Die Geschichte der Stoewer-Automobile by Gerhard Maerz, Stoewer Automobile aus Pommern by Hans Falkenberg and Stoewer Automobile 1896-1945 by Hans Mai. And in none of these books are given a car with a radiator design which correspond to your image. Stoewer used roughly 2 different designs of pointed radiators. Before the war they made a few cars with a radiator where the radiator element might well recall that the car in your picture but the mantle is clearly different. Later on Stoewer used a more curved design, that existed in slightly different variations depending on engine size, where also the radiator element had a curved design on top, and that is different from the radiator on the car on your image.

 

With friendly greeting

Erik Nielsen