History Auto racing 1894-1942

This is the Macoco Alzaga racing J Duesemberg, some place Buenos Aires.
Photo property Mr. Devoto.

 

photo courtesy Austin Harris/LAT photo

http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/u...nd-mathis-or-senechal-racing-team-003758.html

 

Does anyone here have any idea if this car still exists? If so, does anyone have a more recent photo they could PM me? Thanks in Advance-Mark

 

Kurtis,

Yes it does'nt look much of a crash ..........but if you look at the Aero screen it's 'off set' at an angle so maybe a side swipe that threw him out................??


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Ran into these while i was browsing.....................




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No caption or info on these........................





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One more..............

 

I think they're Czech plates from the Austro-Hungarian Empire era:

http://plaque.free.fr/eur/austrohongrie/

 

Maybe someone can translate..................??

 

Basically just letters from two of the Komnick team drivers telling Conti how good their tyres are. Komnick were based in Elbing in West Prussia (now Elblag in Poland). So, those are presumably actually German plates of some sort - although they look different to German plates I've seen of the period.

The line-up of three cars numbered 120-22 is the 1908 Prince Heinrich team. At a guess, the other group might be the 1910 team, but I don't have an entry list for that.

 

German number plates with the letter

- l = Berlin and -A = Prussia - C = East Prussia - D = West Prussia

 

Couple more.........

 

Labelled ......

"Petersburg - Sewastopol" im Jahre 1911

 

Looks like another advertisement for Continental's pneumatic tires.

The first two photos are of Bruno Komnick's 50 H.P. Phaeton at the 1910 Coupe du Tsar. This was a reliability test started in St. Petersburg through many towns and ending in Sebastopol, a distance of about 1300 miles of rough road or none at all. The Komnick took victory in one of five categories which were based on engine size.

 

Looks like German number plates are far more complicated than that!

http://www.nummernschildmuseum.de/themenbereiche-im-museum/deutsche-nummernschilder-1906-45.html

 

The prewar British plates are just as confusing. Too many counties or provinces.

 

Svábhegy, 1930...............

check out the advertising 'cans'..............where are they now....?..






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Same old story. Local government making jobs for jobsworths - every county, city and county borough had its own licensing office! This might help:

http://www.metadyne.co.uk/pdf_files/CarReg.pdf

One thing which isn't mentioned there is that the letters were originally assigned in order of population as determined in the 1901 census! (Useless fact of the day?)

 

Károly Csermely........ Svábhegy 1926

 

I have this as................Kaiserpreis Reval 1912 - Fahrer Kienast

 

Kaiserpreis - Kiev 1912

 

Interesting hood "vents" - summer / winter? Or are they just paint / decoration? The design reminds me of stove vents. Gary

 

AMES used the same style vents on their Model T Ford Speedster bodies.

 

Anyone read any of the books by "Barre Lyndon"?

He wrote 3 books "Combat", "Circuit Dust", and "Grand Prix". They are a wonderful account of racing MG's from the "c" types through the magnettes in the first 2. The last book merely covers the 1933 racing season from Monaco on. Extremely well written and tons of fun to read.

I also picked up a book by John Bolster called "Specials"...havent read it yet, but looks very promising.

 

Classics of motor racing writing, all of 'em! Hard to find these days though. I only wish more writers of his calibre had taken up the pen to cover the sport. I'm guessing "1933" is a typo, as "Grand Prix" actually covers 1934!

Very valuable reference work. More pictures would have been nice, but you can't have everything! Enjoy!

 

Bloody Mary...................

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=412124&highlight=bolster



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