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Title: Solved: Wendax 3693 - Turcat-Méry 15/20 HP
Post by: Wendax on November 22, 2021, 01:27:17 AM
Enjoying a rest in the nature.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
Title: Re: Wendax 3693
Post by: carro8614 on November 22, 2021, 06:38:16 AM
Turcat-Méry
Title: Re: Wendax 3693
Post by: Wendax on November 22, 2021, 06:41:36 AM
Yes, locked for you to name the car's HP rating.
Title: Re: Wendax 3693
Post by: carro8614 on November 22, 2021, 03:19:41 PM
I'd say one of the smaller models, so probably the 14hp.
Title: Re: Wendax 3693
Post by: Wendax on November 22, 2021, 03:24:54 PM
Not a 14 HP, I have a nn/mm HP classification and one of the numbers is very close.
Title: Re: Wendax 3693
Post by: carro8614 on November 22, 2021, 04:53:13 PM
Officially the hp-ratings for Turcat-Méry were always in single numbers from 1908 onwards (before 1908 I have no data). From 1909 the standard hp-ratings were the 14hp and 18hp, a 25hp added from 1910 onwards. However I found that an Austrian coachbuilder with the name Wagen- Carrosserie- und Automobilfabrik AG in Vienna had delivered in 1910 a 15/20hp Turcat-Méry with sporting body to the engineer d'Ester junior. Could that have been this car? The hp-rating must have been a recalculated value for the Austrian tax law, I suppose (for the 18hp?).
Title: Re: Wendax 3693
Post by: Wendax on November 23, 2021, 01:24:07 AM
That's an awful lot more than I know about this car. I just found this photo online with a hand-written caption 15/20 HP. A well earned point to you.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 3693 - Turcat-Méry 15/20 HP
Post by: carro8614 on November 23, 2021, 03:47:22 AM
This article is from the Algemeine Automobil-Zeitung of May 29, 1910.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 3693 - Turcat-Méry 15/20 HP
Post by: Wendax on November 23, 2021, 04:28:12 AM
That could be the same car.  :thumbsup: