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Title: Whaddyacallit #78 - SOLVED - 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan by Rothschild & fils
Post by: Ray B. on April 14, 2008, 12:32:18 PM
Ever seen this ?

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Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 15, 2008, 05:32:24 AM
Does that car have antlers?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: Ray B. on May 13, 2008, 08:53:56 AM
Birdie num num.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: grobmotorix on May 13, 2008, 12:17:34 PM
French?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: Ray B. on May 13, 2008, 12:43:09 PM
Yes.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: @re on May 13, 2008, 01:00:37 PM
Bucciali, Tracta, or maybe Voisin?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: Ray B. on May 14, 2008, 02:33:26 AM
None of these.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: neilshouse on May 14, 2008, 04:04:21 AM
Is it a Farman?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: Ray B. on May 14, 2008, 05:24:06 AM
It is. I can't say it has a true model name, but can you find a little more, how it's been called for instance, and the point is yours.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: grobmotorix on May 14, 2008, 11:46:29 AM
I knew I have this on my computer, too:

it is a 1923  Farman by Rothschild & Fils

Just some month ago I stumbled across it:
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78
Post by: Ray B. on May 14, 2008, 11:57:45 AM
I just had it a 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan. I'm a little puzzled by "Rotschild & Fils". That family was better known as bankers, and I didn't know there were coachbuilders among them, unless I'm wrong. Maybe it's a mistake by L'Illustration and they were the owners instead.
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78 - SOLVED - 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan
Post by: grobmotorix on May 14, 2008, 12:13:55 PM
There were quite some coachbuilders called Rothschild, even in the USA:

QuoteIn 1910, the W.S. Seaman Co., a Milwaukee, Wisconsin coachbuilder, formed a partnership with Rothschild whereby Seaman produced Maurice J.
Rothschild-designed bodies for distribution in the mid-west, and even formed a subsidiary, the Rothschild-Seaman Co. for that purpose. Another Rothschild & Co. satellite sales office was located in Chicago at State & Van Buren Streets.

Another coachbuilder by the name of Rothschild was located in Boston in the early part of the century. They were known as Rothschild & Son and according to the New England Motor Vehicle Registration Roster of 1905, they produced a single 24 hp automobile for J.C. Phillips of Boston, that was registered as a Rothschild automobile. However there is no known connection between the New York and Boston firms. There was a third Rothschild in the coachbuilding business, but this firm, known as J. Rothschild & Fils, was located in Paris, France and had no known connection to any of the US Rothschilds, although they did have sales branches in London and Liverpool. 

source:

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/r/rothschild/rothschild.htm

May I ask if you´ve developed a kind if cardboard file system with pics and data of all cars you come across?
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78 - SOLVED - 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan
Post by: Ray B. on May 14, 2008, 12:38:36 PM
Hmph... You tought me something. I should have checked coachbuilt.com before making that comment. I didn't because I thought they restricted to american coachbuilders.
About your question: nothing so systematic. Just the files of some cars I gather for future puzzles, and those I find interesting, found here and there (Autopuzzles included), streamliners, concept cars, one-offs, etc...
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78 - SOLVED - 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan by Rothschild & f
Post by: grobmotorix on May 15, 2008, 11:24:26 AM
Maybe not very systematic, but I´m sure it´s a kind of a little treasure.

And it will likely survive all the billions of pixels that form all the thousands of car pix on my hard disc drive, that can´t be read in some decades/years anymore...
Title: Re: Whaddyacallit #78 - SOLVED - 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan by Rothschild & fils
Post by: sixtee5cuda on September 26, 2013, 08:39:15 AM
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