AutoPuzzles - The Internet's Museum of Rare Cars!

Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: Carnut on April 11, 2013, 07:25:15 AM

Title: Solved - NEH 2617: Hydromotor "Delia the Water Duck" - 1915
Post by: Carnut on April 11, 2013, 07:25:15 AM: What's this car, who built it, where and when - for 1 point?:

ANYONE FOUND GIVING ANSWERS OBTAINED BY USING GOOGLE SEARCH BY IMAGE MAY BE BANNED FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD!
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: Carnut on April 18, 2013, 05:06:05 AM: Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 02:00:15 AM: Is this the Hydromotor ,1914?
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: Carnut on April 19, 2013, 04:39:32 AM: Quote from: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 02:00:15 AM
Is this the Hydromotor ,1914?

You're on to the right car there I think!
Give me all the rest of the details requested (incl what the owner pictured in the car called it) and the point is yours.
Locked for you in the meantime.
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 09:50:39 AM: I believe they only made a small handful of this car,I think its name was Delia?
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: Carnut on April 19, 2013, 09:55:52 AM: Quote from: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 09:50:39 AM
I believe they only made a small handful of this car,I think its name was Delia?

That's what the owner of the car pictured called it, yes.
But to complete the answers to the quesitons posed - who built them?
Still locked for you.
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 10:12:12 AM: automobile boat manufacturing co.of seattle Washington?
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: Carnut on April 19, 2013, 10:39:10 AM: Quote from: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 10:12:12 AM
automobile boat manufacturing co.of seattle Washington?

That's not who I have as the builders..
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 10:44:49 AM: was it William massel &William Purcell?
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: Carnut on April 19, 2013, 11:03:31 AM: Quote from: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 10:44:49 AM
was it William massel &William Purcell?

That'll do (although I have the first name as William Mazzei..)
Solved!
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2617: Hydromotor "Delia the Water Duck" - 1915
Post by: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 11:09:11 AM: sorry for the bad spelling,and thanks
Title: Re: NEH 2617
Post by: Wendax on April 19, 2013, 12:10:39 PM: Quote from: Carnut on April 19, 2013, 11:03:31 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on April 19, 2013, 10:44:49 AM
was it William massel &William Purcell?
That'll do (although I have the first name as William Mazzei..)

The Standard Catalog has yet another spelling: Massei
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2617: Hydromotor "Delia the Water Duck" - 1915
Post by: Wendax on March 14, 2014, 05:35:05 PM: A nice illustration:
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 2617: Hydromotor "Delia the Water Duck" - 1915
Post by: sixtee5cuda on June 23, 2018, 08:48:54 AM: Images out of water: