Fun with Automotive Accessories / Solved by Tom_I, Oguerrerob, bentleybob & whc

[Otto Puzzell]

No

[Otto Puzzell]

#3   I suspect the whited-out areas of the picture are making it a bear to solve. Maybe this clue will help      

#7   From a well-know purveyor of electrical devices of all kinds.       

#10  This company shares its name with 13 cities, 11 towns, and 14 townships in the US   

#13  If you're looking to the North & East, you'll never get this one. 

[Tom_I]

#10  This company shares its name with 13 cities, 11 towns, and 14 townships in the US   

That'll be Springfield, then?

[Otto Puzzell]

Of course!  

The fashionable lid is a Springfield Hat and Cap Company Auto Cap

[Otto Puzzell]

I have some new group puzzles queued up, but I really think we need to close these older ones out.

I'm offering twice the regular points for solutions that are posted in this thread before 12:00 AM Monday, Eastern Standard Time.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'd like nothing more than to award some points and close out another old puzzle. 

[Oguerrerob]

#7 National Theatre Supply Drive In Movie Car Heater

[Otto Puzzell]

You're halfway there (#7 is a heater) but it was made by another, better-known, company. It also predates drive-in movies by a number of years.

[Oguerrerob]

EPRAD Inc. (Electronic Products - Research And Development)?

[Otto Puzzell]

More of a household name than EPRAD

[Oguerrerob]

Sheridan?

[Otto Puzzell]

No sir

[4popoid]

Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter for a Ford Model T by Hunter?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not one of those.

[4popoid]

Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter by Stewart-Warner?

[Otto Puzzell]

Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter by Stewart-Warner?

No sir

[Otto Puzzell]

#3 employed a type of radiation later favored by hippies.
#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.
#13 was also marketed using this image:

[Tom_I]

#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.

That must be Westinghouse. I don't know if this device had a specific name, but I think this is it, from a patent application. Just called "Automobile engine heater", it was patented in 1921 by Frank Thornton Jr. of the Westinghouse Electric Company.

[Otto Puzzell]

#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.

That must be Westinghouse. I don't know if this device had a specific name, but I think this is it, from a patent application. Just called "Automobile engine heater", it was patented in 1921 by Frank Thornton Jr. of the Westinghouse Electric Company.

That is correct. It was promoted as: "Westinghouse Car (and Garage) heater" in 1920.

[Oguerrerob]

13. I've found a similar device: Lighting Crank Starter Auto Mafam Rheydt GmbH 1913-18 Germany

[Otto Puzzell]

13. I've found a similar device: Lighting Crank Starter Auto Mafam Rheydt GmbH 1913-18 Germany

Very similar, indeed. #13 comes from another company, and a different land.

[Oguerrerob]

13. 1911 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Self-Starter by Charles Kettering USA?

[Otto Puzzell]

13. 1911 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Self-Starter by Charles Kettering USA?

Much closer, geographically, but not an electric self starter.

This is also from a few years earlier.

[Otto Puzzell]

Here is a another pic, from the year after the puzzle pic was published.

[Oguerrerob]

The Prest-O-lite Starting Apparatus for Explosive Engines by James A. Allison, 1912-15 Indiana, USA?