For one point: identify the car (easy) and the purpose of the extra bits that have been attached to it. .
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It's a Ford Model T with a Hotchkiss attachment for starting aircraft engines - shaft engages with the propeller and turns the engine over
And with that, billtorrance9999, I'm pleased to promote you to the rank of Expert AutoPuzzler :thumbsup:
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on July 19, 2012, 12:37:26 PM
And with that, billtorrance9999, I'm pleased to promote you to the rank of Expert AutoPuzzler :thumbsup:
Congratulations bill!
Hope we can look forward to some of your puzzles..
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Interesting result.
I've always known them as the Hucks Starters, named after Capt. Hucks RFC who invented it early in the Great War.
What was the Hotchkiss connection - did they make them, perhaps?
I assumed (dangerous, I know), that bill's knowledge of the device exceeded my own. Since he identified the purpose of the contraption, he earned the point. After reading your reply, and doing some additional reading, the term "Huck Starter" seems to be almost universally applied to these, so I'm awarding you a second point.
Huck starter and Hotchkiss starter were similar devices according to be late father who worked with them in the RAF
This particular one looks like the Imperial War Museum's Model T which they call a Huck Starter. There's a film on U-Tube