Coach Class #1635 Panhard & Levassor Tourer / King of Belgium / Demarest

[Otto Puzzell]

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Please, respond below. Name the make, coachbuilder and customer for whom this was constructed.
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[Otto Puzzell]

Experts?

[guido66]

from Down under?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir

[mymokke]

Looks similar to a Springfield Rolls Royce, but, the radiator shell is all wrong .....

[Otto Puzzell]

You are correct - not a Rolls

[Otto Puzzell]

Pros?

[Allemano]

Panhard ET Levassor Tourer from 1905
built for the King of Belgium by Demarest & Co from New York;
It's powered by a 40 HP water-cooled six-cylinder engine with a capacity of ~11.000 cc .

This car is part of the collection of Owls Head Transportation Museum in USA

[Otto Puzzell]

Right you are.

[bentleybob]

Panhard ET Levassor Tourer from 1905
built for the King of Belgium by Demarest & Co from New York;
It's powered by a 40 HP water-cooled six-cylinder engine with a capacity of ~11.000 cc .

This car is part of the collection of Owls Head Transportation Museum in USA

This kind of body was called a 'Roi des Belges' Open Tourer. This car was not built for the Kinfg of Belgium ( they had Excelsiors and Minerva's with Belgian bodies, (later Packard, Bugatti, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari etc. as well)

[Otto Puzzell]

... ( they had Excelsiors and Minerva's with Belgian bodies, (later Packard, Bugatti, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari etc. as well)

"IN 1901, when the fabulously rich King Leopold II of the Belgians (who personally owned the Belgian Congo) decided to buy a new car, he chose arguably the best chassis of its day, a big 40hp Panhard & Levassor."

David Burgess-Wise, writing in "A good idea at the time: Roi des Belges body style", published in The Telegrph, March 2001