Otto Puzzell's Puzzle #1461 - I.H.C. Model J

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and share your knowledge what this is, and who built it
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[Otto Puzzell]

Experts?

[Otto Puzzell]

Pros?

[Otto Puzzell]

Though this company produced passenger vehicles for many years, this model lasted but two years.

[ftg3plus4]

It can be tough to get guesses on semi-generic-looking pre-war cars around here!

I have no idea what it might be, but I guess I can start asking a bunch of dumb questions, if you don't mind.

So... first one: European?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not a dumb question, but not from there.

[ftg3plus4]

American?

(Don't worry -- I'm sure the questions will get dumber as they go!  )

[Otto Puzzell]

American?

Yes!

[ftg3plus4]

OK, then there's a lot of narrowing down to do...

When you say they produced "passenger vehicles" (I assume you mean "cars") for many years: did they stop before WW II?

[Otto Puzzell]

No

[ftg3plus4]

Is this an obscure early model from someone who's still around? Maybe Ford?

[Otto Puzzell]

After some name and ownership changes, still around.

Ford still builds and sells personal-use passenger vehicles, so, not a Ford. 

[ftg3plus4]

OK, so, still around but not making cars anymore...

Did they stop making cars before 1980?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes, they did.

[pnegyesi]

Studebaker?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir. This company produced significantly fewer automobiles. Studebaker, and it's survivor affiliates, no longer produce motor vehicles.

[ftg3plus4]

Let's focus on the make name shown in the actual puzzle.

Were there cars made under this name before 1910?

Were there cars made under this name after 1960?

[Paul Jaray]

Packard Thirty?

Though this company produced passenger vehicles for many years, this model lasted but two years.

Sounds like an Hudson Model 20, then.

[Otto Puzzell]

Let's focus on the make name shown in the actual puzzle.

That's what I've been doing, adding detail to illuminate why the answers, so far, have been off the mark, which also affords hints toward the correct identification of the vehicle pictured.

Were there cars made under this name before 1910?

Motorized vehicles, yes. Passenger automobiles? I'm more than 50% certain they did not.

Were there cars made under this name after 1960?

No

[Otto Puzzell]

Sounds like an Hudson Model 20, then.

Not a Hudson, but a sound guess 

[ftg3plus4]

OK, so... an American passenger car make that existed from the 1910s (based on the photo), but probably not before 1910, until between WW II and 1960. Have I understood correctly?

This probably doesn't fit the criteria, but just to get it out of the way: Is there any Rambler / Jeffery / Nash / AMC connection here?

[Paul Jaray]

My next guess was Rambler as well, but couldn't find a 2-year model like that...

[Otto Puzzell]

OK, so... an American passenger car make that existed from the 1910s (based on the photo), but probably not before 1910, until between WW II and 1960. Have I understood correctly?

This probably doesn't fit the criteria, but just to get it out of the way: Is there any Rambler / Jeffery / Nash / AMC connection here?

Not a Rambler or sister brand. This company's run of passenger automobiles ("cars", in the strictest sense) ended before WWII.

[ftg3plus4]

Not a Rambler or sister brand. This company's run of passenger automobiles ("cars", in the strictest sense) ended before WWII.

OK, that wasn't clear before. Did it end in the '30s?

[Otto Puzzell]

Yes