Whaddyacallit #400 - The Libby streamliner

[Ray B.]

A kind of bigfoot streamliner for my number 400.

Do you know what its is? Please respond below and let us know the make and model of the car posted here.
I only have a name and some details about it, but little certainty. So this is a 2 points puzzle.

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[Ray B.]

Experts?

[pnegyesi]

I found a few late 1930 home-built "teardrop" specials, built in the USA. Is this one of them?

[Ray B.]

You tell me (read my post more carefully)

[Ray B.]

Pros?

[250gto]

Is it a McQuay Norris?

[streamliner]

I'm going with the 1932 Hill Arrow Plane...

[Ray B.]

Don't you think it would have been easy to google both those names and check that it's neither of those?

[pnegyesi]

Those wheels, tires, its size suggest this: "Hill Auto Body went on to build the Arrow Plane – inspired McQuay Norris streamliners, the Grove Laboratory land yacht and, in 1936, a gigantic streamliner for Bromo Seltzer on a bus chassis. "

Does anyone got a photo on the "gigantic streamliner"?

[Ray B.]

I don't. This is to small to be the "gigantic streamliner" but there is a tire company involved (its name appears on the photo, but I masked it).

[Ray B.]

What about putting this one to be nursed in the Pros secret garden?

[Paul Jaray]

Can it be the Bremac from Sidney, Ohio, 1932?

[Ray B.]

Hard to tell from such a drawing. It's not the name i have (but my source gives no details at all).

[GrahamClayton]

The closest car I could come up with was the 1934 McQuay-Norris streamliner, which although similar, is not identical:

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[Otto Puzzell]

Graham - no links allowed when proffering an answer.

Please read: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=6856.msg43125#msg43125

[Ray B.]

It''s not the McQuay Norris.

[pnegyesi]

Is there a Hoppe or a Streut mentioned related to this car?

[Ray B.]

Not as I know.
But there is a "Riley" (not the british make).

[Paul Jaray]

Samuel Eliot built a serie of 3 rear-engined sedans, called Crickets....#3 of 1937 is quite known, could it be one of the other two? They were made in Boston and Holliston, Massachusetts during the 30s.

[Ray B.]

I honestly don't know. Except that it's not the name I have. As this seems rather hard, I am posting the untouched picture of the car.

[Paul Jaray]

Thank you.
Isn't that sign saying: "General Streamline Jumbo"?
I'm looking into the Standard Catalog.

[Paul Jaray]

Nothing unger: Major - General - Jumbo - Riley.
I'll look for Baltimora based companies, but it will take some time.

[Paul Jaray]

none of the 26 makers from Baltimora can be responsable for this...
none of the 11 makers from Akron Ohio, where the General Tire & Rubber Co was based, either

[Otto Puzzell]

I've found this picture elsewhere, tagged as the Libby Body Riley Head car

[Ray B.]

A Bingo for Otto!
Libby is also the name I have, but nothing else. Yet I have it from the files of a very well-known specialist so I accept it. As for "Riley Head" a quick check showed me that they appear to be some improved cylinder heads (like Ardun) used with Ford flatheads.
Now, in our endless quest for those 1930's streamliners, if anyone can bring some more and important information about this one, there might be another point to take.