Solved: Wendax 3218 - La Coloniale by Gustave Cros

Wendax · May 16, 2020, 01:47:41 AM

Off the beaten track.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · May 23, 2020, 02:01:03 AM

up

FrontMan · May 23, 2020, 06:08:03 AM

Frontenac?

Wendax · May 23, 2020, 07:54:08 AM

No

Wendax · June 06, 2020, 02:04:32 AM

up again

Fёdor · June 06, 2020, 03:41:23 AM

European?

Djetset · June 06, 2020, 03:59:12 AM

This looks like 'La Coloniale', a rear propeller-powered car (just visible in the photo) made by M. Cros from Lyon, France, c.1913.

Wendax · June 06, 2020, 04:57:58 AM

Because that's what it is. One more point for you.

Djetset · June 06, 2020, 05:04:44 AM

Merci, and I didn't know his first name was Gustav. I saw the photo on the top right in a very old magazine in France more than 20 years ago and made a note of the car due to its unusual rear propeller, so pleased to see some old hand written notes can be useful sometimes.

Allan L · June 06, 2020, 10:44:05 AM

How extraordinary!
To push it over those obstacles must need a lot of propellor power, but one has to ask how on earth it could be held in check or slowed on the downhill bits or even stopped.

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Solved: Wendax 3218 - La Coloniale by Gustave Cros