Quiz Archive

What is it? # 134 (UPDATE: 1910 Brush Model E)

Update(at last): Andy Watt (UK, 1904 Berliet driver ...) came up with this great line: "A late, senior member of the VCC of GB used to say the best way to date a Brush was to cut the axle in half and count the rings! " (it didn't help Andy, he had the year wrong)
Verdict:
The car is a Brush, which most competitors had correct. The 80" wb was a big hint, a giveaway to get very near the type. Yet not many of you gave way to their doubts, or just didn't know that this WB means it is either a 1910 Model D or a 1911 Model E.... Look it up in the Standard Ctalogue of American Cars 1805-1942. This specific car was purposely built to make you crazy, but that is what history is about. No rules. This Brush is dated by the VCC as a 1910, but ... according to the manufacturing plate it's a Model E (known as being from 1911 alone).
So the subject car most probably is an early production - late in 1910 - model E , of the modelyear '1911' .... Are you still with us? No way to decide between the two without knowing the car. And nobody took the crazy gamble to say : 1910 Model E what would have been the very best answer . So in the end we decided to take further only the single competitor who touched this subject of deepest Model/Year doubts. In this following the path taken by jurymember Lars-Göran Lindgren.
Alanson P. Brush liked to do things different. He was the first to give a car coil springs back in 1907 ! The second unique feature is the counterclockwise turning engine, also an invention of Alanson P. Brush, who was also responsible for designing Cadillac's counterclockwise turning one cylinder... Congratulations Mark Dawber !

EARLIER: It's a fine piece of front suspension engineering. Daring and avant garde at the same time. One probably could write a long article about this set-up alone, maybe even a book. Now we obviously want you to tell us which Make (1.) it is, what the Year(2.) of this specific car is (take care, you probably have to gamble!) and of course which Type (3.) (no need to mention the WB, it is 80"). Not only the suspension, the engine has unique features as well. So come on, surprise us, tell us what was the most interesting feature of that engine. And last: were the special engine feature & suspension of the same engineer/inventor? Sorry no more extra hints this time. Just look and look and think.... (photo source: Monday) Rules:

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Friday, 10 December 2004