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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2009 => Topic started by: guido66 on August 26, 2009, 05:01:02 PM

Title: GG-42 Linon 1902
Post by: guido66 on August 26, 2009, 05:01:02 PM: Time for a new batch...
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Post by: guido66 on August 31, 2009, 02:18:12 PM: 1 up
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Post by: faksta on September 02, 2009, 05:21:53 PM: Is it Dutch?
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Post by: guido66 on September 02, 2009, 05:24:08 PM: Not Dutch.
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Post by: João on September 02, 2009, 06:47:50 PM: Humm....Phebus Aster?
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Post by: guido66 on September 03, 2009, 02:42:05 AM: Not that...
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Post by: João on September 11, 2009, 01:55:54 PM: French?
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Post by: guido66 on September 11, 2009, 04:40:59 PM: Not French..
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Post by: faksta on September 11, 2009, 06:50:30 PM: Australian?
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Post by: guido66 on September 12, 2009, 05:54:56 AM: And not Australian either.
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Post by: ftg3plus4 on September 12, 2009, 10:17:42 AM: German?
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Post by: guido66 on September 12, 2009, 10:21:01 AM: Not, not from there.
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Post by: ftg3plus4 on September 12, 2009, 10:43:45 AM: European, though?
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Post by: faksta on September 12, 2009, 02:36:59 PM: If I'm not mistaken:

1) there is a bamboo in a background (means not European)
2) I have seen this picture (means nothing certain)

Latin America?
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: Ray B. on September 12, 2009, 07:02:20 PM: You can't imagine the quantity of bamboo we've got here.
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: faksta on September 13, 2009, 06:20:22 AM: I thought there is none in Europe :lurk:
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: guido66 on September 13, 2009, 06:31:30 AM: Quote from: faksta on September 12, 2009, 02:36:59 PM
If I'm not mistaken:

1) there is a bamboo in a background (means not European)
2) I have seen this picture (means nothing certain)

Latin America?

You've got a sharp eye!

But according to my information the photo was taken in Europe (but NOT in the country that the car is from). Perhaps it was taken outside a botanic garden? ;)
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: Ray B. on September 13, 2009, 06:36:57 AM: If it's for the bamboo, it could have been taken in MY garden.
Cute old couple with nice hats, by the way.
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Post by: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 09:22:12 AM: So is the car from Europe or not? That's still not entirely clear.

If it is from Europe, then... Belgium?
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Post by: João on September 13, 2009, 10:17:33 AM: Looks like a 1899-1900 Vivinus
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Post by: guido66 on September 13, 2009, 11:46:18 AM: Quote from: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 09:22:12 AM
So is the car from Europe or not? That's still not entirely clear.

If it is from Europe, then... Belgium?

Yes, it's from Belgium
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: guido66 on September 13, 2009, 11:47:07 AM: Quote from: João on September 13, 2009, 10:17:33 AM
Looks like a 1899-1900 Vivinus

But not a Vivinus
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Post by: pnegyesi on September 13, 2009, 12:17:33 PM: An early FN?
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Post by: 75america on September 13, 2009, 12:20:02 PM: Linon
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Post by: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 12:30:09 PM: In case none of the previous guesses are right... Antoine?

(I admit I like the other guesses better, though...)
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: 75america on September 13, 2009, 12:34:56 PM: Quote from: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 12:30:09 PM
In case none of the previous guesses are right... Antoine?

My answer wasn't followed by a questionmark. ;)
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 12:43:57 PM: Quote from: 75america on September 13, 2009, 12:34:56 PM
My answer wasn't followed by a questionmark. ;)
That's true. In that case, it had better be right, or I'm going to have to give you a really hard time about it! ;)
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: 75america on September 13, 2009, 12:54:29 PM: Quote from: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 12:43:57 PM
That's true. In that case, it had better be right, or I'm going to have to give you a really hard time about it! ;)

It's the risk I take for being arrogant. ;D
Title: Re: GG-42
Post by: guido66 on September 13, 2009, 02:52:21 PM: Quote from: 75america on September 13, 2009, 12:20:02 PM
Linon

Yes, you've found it!

Here's the caption that was with the photo:
This well-dressed Ipswich couple are driving an early Linon voiturette (light car), probably a 1902 model with a single cylinder, 3 1/2 horsepower De Dion-Bouton engine. The man is dressed in long pants, jacket and cap, and the woman is wearing a large, feathered hat secured with a scarf.
Linon cars were built in Belgium by a father & son company of former bicycle makers. The car in the photograph is unusual in that the drive is taken from the front mounted engine to the rear wheels by a flat twisted belt, a system more commonly used to drive agricultural machinery at the time. Secured to the front of the dashboard, behind the oil lamps, is a glass and metal lubricator device.

:-[ So the picture was not from Europe :-[ I had made a note that the picture was from Ipswich, but didn't know about the Australia part!
Title: Re: GG-42 Linon 1902
Post by: ftg3plus4 on September 13, 2009, 02:58:33 PM: OK, Mr. 75america... you're entitled to point at me with a smug smile and say "neener, neener." But after that I don't want to hear any more about it! ;D
Title: Re: GG-42 Linon 1902
Post by: Wendax on December 30, 2017, 02:03:42 PM: A brochure: