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The "Slosson" car?
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Rick
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:04 pm    Post subject: The "Slosson" car? Reply with quote
This question arrived the other day - is this a real motor maker, or a fictional one dreamt up by the author???

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In L. M. Montgomery's novel, "The Blue Castle" , written around 1920, one of the characters drives a car described as an old grey Slosson. So far, I've been unable to find any mention of such a car. Do you have any idea of what a Slosson would have looked like?

Thanks for your help.

Dan
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Never 'erd of it, maybe it was a tongue-in-cheek abbreviation of... slow sonofabitch. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi
Sounds like it might be like the early Saint's Furiac and Bulldog Drummond's Hirondelle.

Hope I've remembered them correctly.

I think authors back then liked to invent cars. Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wasn't the Hirondelle notorious for transmission wine? Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wasn't the Nossols motor car almost a mirror image of the Slosson?
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