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We have no idea why there is no tire around the spare wheel. The car looks brand-new, so perhaps it still has to be fitted. Although it seats four, it was still called a cyclecar, but that name may have been more fitting to the two-passenger side-by-side roadster or the two-passenger tandem that were also offered. The V-shaped radiator provided the cooling for the four-cylinder air-cooled engin...

And also by the same artist (click main pic!). Both are watercolours for an advert for the Steyr XII, one Dutch, one from Austria. The origins of the Steyr are easy to trace, but the artist by the name of Demar we have never heard of before. We found only one other Steyr advert by him. Who can tell us more about Demar… did he work solely for Steyr or have more of his paintings survived?

We wouldn’t like to be in this man’s shoes, trying to put some blocks under the front-wheels of this Tilling-Stevens truck chassis. The purpose is to show how good this truck is conquering hills. The picture comes from a film that was shot during the 1924 Concours d’Elegance on the boulevard of the Dutch fishing village and beach resort Scheveningen (just try to pronounce that!). The whol...

Originality will be the main theme at the tenth Bremen Classic Motorshow to be held from the 3rd to the 5th February, 2012. And to show you what originality really means the organization has persuaded The Musée National de l´Automobile in Mulhouse (France) to show what they have in their secret hoard at the Schlumpf Collection. Some of these haven’t seen daylight since they were stored away...

We have our doubts if you have ever seen a Jaeger with a reading up to 10 bar for the 'front circuit' and the 'rear circuit'. But if you know we are eager to learn, as we have no clue since we saw it recently.  This pressure gauge is just a small detail of a brilliant automotive piece of streamline art that was developped in the early twenties. The rearengined creature with its alloy spacef...

Ever since the aeroplane and the automobile were developed, clever inventors have been trying to combine the two. In 1921 Frenchman René Tampier came up with an interesting solution when he tried to solve several problem in one go, for instance what to do when landing in a fog; garaging the aeroplane or how to transport it on the ground. Apart from the propeller-driven engine he also mounted a...

John Skelton recently unearthed this radiator grill from his garage. Not knowing what it is from, he asked around and was advised that it was from a Bayliss-Thomas. He then checked the web, but could not place it to a particular model. Indeed, all the Bayliss-Thomas models we know have a square radiator, not pointed like this one. And furthermore we also doubt the Bayliss-Thomas connection, bec...

You may remember our article about Sonia Delaunay, who in the 1920s designed dresses with matching body colors for the car. She was married to Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) was also a very competent artist. In the early days of the previous century he experimented with Cubism. His style evolved in what is known as ‘Orphism’, a mixture of cubism with circles and a sensation of bright colors. F...

Two men, driver and mechanic, at full speed in their sports car. To be honest, that’s about all we know about it, so it’s up to you to fill in the details. Of course we do have a few clues for you, it’s French, the first name of its creator was Jacques and his company was in business from 1918 until 1930 during which time they had a very complex range of models. What we want to hear from ...