For one point. What is this?
The first monster truck, buggy crusher! :lmao:
Experts?
Panhard ???
Very far from that.
Steam?
I am not sure, but I don't think so. The story on this is more about the man behind the car, than about the car itself.
Pro's?
Is the man in the driver's seat Frank Duryea?
No, that's not him, neither is he American.
A Frenchman perhaps?
No, he spook the English language.
From Australia?
Quote from: pnegyesi on February 28, 2011, 02:11:49 PM
From Australia?
The man from origin? No
The car he built? No......but close
New Zealand?
Quote from: Allemano on February 28, 2011, 03:49:18 PM
New Zealand?
Yes, that's where he went, and also where he made his car.
Tommy Oates?
Quote from: pnegyesi on February 28, 2011, 11:16:04 PM
Tommy Oates?
No that's not him.
I did not know the name Tommy Oates, but afther a quick search it seems he was the first to import a car to New Zealand, but he did not built one him self. also it seems that he was the first to be fined for speeding! :D
I have two names but no pictures.
Let's start with John Rutherford?
No, not John Rutherford
Cecil Wood?
I have found a mention of a man named Dennison who made automobiles in New Zealand at the turn of the last century.
Him?
No, also not him, This guys main activity was not building cars. He only made his own.
Did he make his automobile in the 19th century?
George Methven rose from humble origins in Dundee, Scotland, to found a major Dunedin engineering firm. He emigrated to New Zealand as an assisted migrant in 1874. With a strong engineering background in Britain he had no trouble finding work. For several years he was the foreman at the Reid and Gray foundry in Oamaru. Then in 1886 he set up his own engineering business from a workshop in the back of his home at Goodall Street in Caversham.
Ten successful years later Methven moved to Crawford Street and established a substantial engineering plant. In 1910 he moved again, this time to Andersons Bay Road, where the business expanded to employ over 100 workers. The company specialised in taps and other light castings for plumbers including a popular copper boiler guaranteed not to stain clothes. Methven was a clever man, constantly developing his products to lessen work in the home. He was also fascinated by the new technology of the automobile. In 1903 he indulged this interest by building himself a car -the first locally made car in Dunedin.
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Thats indeed the man and his car I was looking for!!
Well done!!!
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