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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The Alfa 6C in my book shows a car with louvres on the bonnet sides not the little "doors".


A reason why I looked closely at the Delage D8?

Oddly, Google lens chose the Alfa....

The chrome [shiny??] strip down the bodyside seems to me to be a signature design of some manufacturer or other?

Also, isn't the photo taken somewhere near Belgium during WW2?

Which might preclude an Alfa, in favour of a more 'local' manufacturer?
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Ray White



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry to contradict you, Alastair...but it's an Alfa! Very Happy
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peter scott



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2025 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
bjacko wrote:
Different manufacturers often used the same body builder who may use the same features on different makes. The Alfa 6C in my book shows a car with louvres on the bonnet sides not the little "doors".


bjacko, your posting is very relevant! I am just writing to the original supplier of his father's photo and another that I have just received. Apparently the car is a 1936 Lancia Astura.

Many thanks for the photos and from the radiator badge I must eat humble pie! It does appear to be a Lancia. I think the concentration on the wings and running boards confused Ray White and myself and I suspect the reason was that your father's Lancia and the rather similar Alfa probably shared the same coachbuiler. In the Alfa advert it is described as:

Coachwork by Stabilimenti Farina



Also: https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/64105994671562247/

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Ray White



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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2025 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Peter! Can I have a slice of your humble pie please?

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2025 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
With pleasure. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
What might this be?

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
[quote="Penman"]What might this be?

I would suggest it is a 1908 Napier.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 15, 2025 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks for that one Ray. This is an Agricultural tractor but the picture want allow a screen grab and crop. Any recognise a '40s looking Tractor with wire wheels?

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=791082170496952&set=a.113602671578242
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Vintage Fly Guy



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd suggest a 1940s Fordson N but with narrow 'rowcrop' wheels for work amongst rows of vegetables without squashing them, rather than standard width general purpose rear wheels. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co39286/fordson-model-n-rowcrop-agricultural-tractor-1940
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
VFG: Now that fits one of the latter posts on that FB page, He had suggested a 3 wheeled N but every picture of an N I had found was a 4wheeler.
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