History Pre-Streamline Art Deco coachwork

Found tonight on the Facebook page, Coachbuilding & Concepts:


Isotta Fraschini

Cord L-29 by Hayes

 

From the same source:

Ruxton roadster, by Raulang.

 

Bugatti Type 38:

 

I don't know if one of these was posted here, but in any case here's the Cord L-29 La Grande Speedster...



...that car just has "it".


Posted using my Lil' Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pin

 

banjeaux bob shared this on Facebook today:

 

More from the same source:

 

Another chance discovery:

Sensaud de Lavaud saloon by Labourdette. The positions of the A and B posts relative to the wheelbase wants some geometric analysis: very delicately done.

 

From PreWarCar:

Out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
http://www.prewarcar.com/magazine/p...keeps-on-rousing-readers-024098.html#comments

 

One of my favorites. Daimler Double Six

 

The coupe is much more attractive than the saloon.

 

Here is the chassis.

 

I'd forgotten that I'd seen that before. Cast aluminium alloy chassis, I believe. I wonder what those strut-tower-like things are: air suspension? It also appears that the side-hinged door carrying the spare was integral to the frame.

I wonder if any survive. I see that you yourself posted about Sensaud de Lavaud in jimi'shemi291's Extinct Makes thread. Also from that thread: http://asso.proxiland.fr/avec/default.asp?a=7631&b=&m - though it seems that there were illustrations that have disappeared.

Front view:

 

I think I have a couple of more pictures somewhere. As far as I know no cars have survived and production seems to be measured on one hand.

 

Sliding pillar rear suspension ? Like lancia or Morgan use on the front

 

1927 Scripps-Booth Da Vinci Pup prototype, courtesy of Marc Hendrix:


Here's a better pic:

 

If I remember correctly it's a rubber shock type thingy in those cylinders, I have a small description of the car in a book somewhere in a box...

 

My Burgess-Wise mentions "ifs by rubber in compression" and nothing else. No mention of Sensaud de Lavaud at all in Georgano or Scheel.

 

From 2 weeks ago at the Automedon show in Le Bourget next to Paris
Panhard valve sleeve racers:






Avion Voisin:

 

Striking paint scheme on unknown French chassis:

Suspected to be a Mathis or a Donnet.

 

I believe one of the gal is Mathis wife.

 

Wrong, the lady at the wheel is Miss Delaunay, a famed artist and designer in the 20's, picture taken in 1925.
Still I don't recall of any Donnet boattail. Plus Donnet had 4 parallel leaf springs. Mathis had a more "cathedral" look to their grilles.

 

This would be the American art deco entry.

 

Striking paint scheme, the cubist or Mondrian influence?

On further examination it resembles linoleum patterns from the early 30s.

 

1934 Delage "Aerosport" by Letourneur & Marchand:


I find nothing further on this car. I suspect that it succumbed to WWII or was rebodied in a more predictable idiom.

 

Another striking graphic treatment, by Henri Binder on a Citroën C6:

Another C6, perhaps factory coachwork? Graphics by artist Sonia Delaunay:


Apparently this is an Isotta-Fraschini:

 

1929 Stutz, Hibbard & Darrin:

 

From this week end Reims show a 1924 Avion Voisin C4



I absolutely love that paint scheme.

 

I love these paint jobs - wish we could see the colours on those old photos. They remind me of the camoflage on some of the old German WW1 aircraft. (There is a traditional use for Iron Crosses! )

 

Found in the course of a search in response to a question which arose out of a recent thread on later-type Victorias:

1921 Heine-Velox (earlier-type) Victoria.