Just a chassis, but you will find out what it is. ;)
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It looks like the wheel is quite advanced and the radiator is positioned on the left side of the chassis...was it a French taxi or a little van?
It is French. No idea what bodywork it once had.
The radiator looks like the Sigma's one...but I never found a Sigma with that kind of chassis. Is it perhaps a car built with pieces coming from different cars?
It is a Sigma.
Locked for you.
That's what is left of the body:
Well, with these picture I have no doubt...the car is...a wrech! There are not many notices about this marque on the net; I understand that it began to build cars in 1913 using Malicet & Blin engines; after the first WW, Sigma built quite conventional cars both with CIME, SCAP and Ballot engines, from 800 to 1600 cc.
I have a pair of Sigma pictures in my archive, and the 20 cv is the one I think has some point in common with puzzle car, such as radiator and wheels. So that's my guess, Sigma 20cv tourer, 1925.
A little bit older, and I only have a type designation, no CV size, and I have the engine maker.
Give me the year and the engine maker, and the point is yours.
I've no clue but, as Cime produced little engines, I suppose it provided the two cilinder version, and the quiz car is a four cilinder, so I take Cime off the list. I'm not able to see differences between a Scap or Ballot engines; both these makers produced car for normal use and for races. This other picture that I post, has a 1921 caption...so I guess Ballot (alphabetical order), 1921.
Spot on!
I found it as a 1921 Sigma Type V with a Ballot engine. Regarding the "Var" sign, the seat and its position, it looks as if it was converted to some kind of tractor sometimes in its life.
Google SBI didn't find it, do you?
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From Europe?
Yes
French marque?
Yes
Schmidlin cyclecar from about 1925?
A Violet?
Twice no
A Spidos from about 1923?
No
short-living manufacturer?
No, it existed more than ten years.
A S.C.A.P. from about 1923?
No
You say this manufacturer "existed more than ten years". Was this manufacturer in business both before and after WWI?
Yes
I can't find any pictures, but might this be an Enders?
No, it isn't.
Did this car use an engine from an outside manufacturer such as SCAP?
Yes, it did use an engine from another manufacturer, but not from SCAP.
Is the engine manufacturer Ballot?
Yes
Guess - Zeiller et Fournier ?
No
Is the puzzle car a Sigma?
Yes, locked for you to name the type.
I am away from my primary reference computer until this evening, but as I recall there were two sizes of Ballot engined Sigmas. This car looks rather light, so I will try the smaller engine version, an: 8CV.
Not an 8 CV. I need not only the CV classification, but the type designation, too.
Still locked for you.
I have had very little time to work on this puzzle today, but this is what I have found so far.
With regard to CV, as I said before, I had two choices. Since it Was not the 8CV, it must be the 20CV.
With regard to type designation, So far I have only been able to determine three types. Specifically, Type R (1913-1916), Type V (1919-1924) and Type L (1925-1928). I have not been able to find other types, including something for the 1917-1918 period, but, because that period was during WWI, there may have been a gap in the production. I have been able to locate a photograph which more closely resembles the puzzle car than any photograph of the above type designations, but, unfortunately, this photograph has no type designation, only the caption "1913 Torpedo Speedster". Since I am not sure that a letter type is required, I will say the puzzle car type is a: "Torpedo Speedster". However if a letter type is required, based on the time frame of the discovered "Torpedo Speedster" photograph, I would guess that the puzzle car is a: Type R.
It is not a 20 CV and not a Type R, but one of the other types you mentioned.
Well, I did find a 10CV, Type V mentioned, but since it had no picture, and contradicted multiple other sources, I discounted it. So, 10CV Type V?
That's the correct one.