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What is it ? # 92 (Update: George Richard Brasier)
UPDATE: this car is in a Romanian museum and seems to be a 1904 George Richard Brasier. At least that is what one of the hubcaps is reading.... Now the engine did not ring a bell with anybody except with Mac McAnlis who suggested that this could be a
1905-06 Compound (McLellansAutomotive.com). Mac writes: "...this (Compound)car uses a three cylinder engine. Where the not fully expanded exhaust gasses from the smaller two cylinders dump into the larger single cylinder and finish expanding. The theory was to obtain a higher efficiency and also a quieter automobile." Bright thinking Mac! Yet we think that this Connecticut car is a bit far from George Richard Brasier to take it a a good answer. However... anyone who can argue with photos that this must be a George Richard - Compound special of course will win the T-shirt after all. Your comments are welcome as usual. This one was impossible to crack. next week honest, homnest, the very last one of the year. And for once, really for once a really easy one. Promised! (photos from Bogdan Coconiu, president of Historical Commission
Retromobil Club Romania)
It may be the last one of 2003, so buckle up! It is not the brain of a Pre Intergalactic War Robot. It is part of an earlier mystery that then was impossible to unravel. So here you have something to think over. And not only the cool historical facts. Give a thorough look to the enlarged photo and see the skillful patchwork that has been done to keep this one(?), two(?), three(?), .. four pot(?) revving..! This is work of another era when 'recylcing' was unheard of. They just did. But let's go on. Take a look at
the side of this early machine (click). Give a long glance at the
overall photo, which was to be seen at these pages before. And tell us the make, the year and maybe something about the engine. Send your answer to
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with a # 92 in the subject line. And do so Before(!) Monday 15 December.
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Friday, 12 December 2003
UPDATE: this car is in a Romanian museum and seems to be a 1904 George Richard Brasier. At least that is what one of the hubcaps is reading.... Now the engine did not ring a bell with anybody except with Mac McAnlis who suggested that this could be a 1905-06 Compound (McLellansAutomotive.com). Mac writes: "...this (Compound)car uses a three cylinder engine. Where the not fully expanded exhaust gasses from the smaller two cylinders dump into the larger single cylinder and finish expanding. The theory was to obtain a higher efficiency and also a quieter automobile." Bright thinking Mac! Yet we think that this Connecticut car is a bit far from George Richard Brasier to take it a a good answer. However... anyone who can argue with photos that this must be a George Richard - Compound special of course will win the T-shirt after all. Your comments are welcome as usual. This one was impossible to crack. next week honest, homnest, the very last one of the year. And for once, really for once a really easy one. Promised! (photos from Bogdan Coconiu, president of Historical Commission Retromobil Club Romania)
It may be the last one of 2003, so buckle up! It is not the brain of a Pre Intergalactic War Robot. It is part of an earlier mystery that then was impossible to unravel. So here you have something to think over. And not only the cool historical facts. Give a thorough look to the enlarged photo and see the skillful patchwork that has been done to keep this one(?), two(?), three(?), .. four pot(?) revving..! This is work of another era when 'recylcing' was unheard of. They just did. But let's go on. Take a look at the side of this early machine (click). Give a long glance at the overall photo, which was to be seen at these pages before. And tell us the make, the year and maybe something about the engine. Send your answer to
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with a # 92 in the subject line. And do so Before(!) Monday 15 December.
