What Car is this ?

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Anyone know the car as i want to try and date the photo ?

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I'm sort of interested, but certainly not an expert. Guess at 1910 or a bit earlier. Clothes like that would have been worn at least until the WWI period. For some reason when I looked I thought, "American" (the car) and looking online the radiator shape could be a Cadillac.
Try one of the classic car forums?
 
Yes. Again guessing, post 1905, earlier cars in general look sort of "earlier". :) Probably as I said pre 1910, cars after around that time started to get more pressed panels like the bulkhead. Pre WWI almost definitely.
The problem is with dating cars from back then is that they weren't really mass produced, but were hand built and used often proprietry parts. The owners would modify them. My wife's grandfather was an early motorist, and I spoke to him about it occasionally. He had a "Star" made in Wolverhampton. He knew the owner of the factory, and he used to take the car over there for modifications or repairs.
 
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What is the pipe going to the front wing ?
That should enable the identification but i can't find anything similar.
 
What is the pipe going to the front wing ?
That should enable the identification but i can't find anything similar.

Isn't that a spare tyre wrapped in some sort of cloth? They're not pneumatic tyres as it's not mounted on a wheel, just a loose solid tyre.

Gaz :)
 
Guessing (again). A spare tyre wrapped in sacking. They were all beaded rim tyres back then, and used to get plenty of punctures, and tears. they're easy enough to change or mend the tube on the rim I believe. I also think that the whole wheel being changed came later.

Bit late with that. :) They are pneumatic though. High pressure too, like bike tyres. As far as I can tell early "low pressure" as in modern type tyres were known as "balloon tyres" when they first came out. I've got a pressure gauge from that era that's marked something like "The Balloon tyre gauge". Lorries and traction engines had solid tyres. Pneumatics weren't up to the weight. Solid tyres are much lower profile, like thick rubber bands on a flat steel rim.
 
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Deffo a beaded edge tyre wrapped in hessian - you might get somewhere with the rg. number A--- must be one of the earliest, see when they were introduced
 
I think registration became compulsory in 1903. Earliest UK registration numbers has one or two letters followed by up to 4 numbers. Of course, it could have been built before then, but I'd guess at pre 1910. Have you tried contacting DVLA? They might have a record of when that number was first issued.
 
Bit of searching online turned up that "A" single letter registrations were for London, issued between 1904-1905
 
I suspect that back in '04, one made such a major purchase when one was at one's London residence. :)
 
I can confirm it was built in 1903, because the world's oldest Vauxhall was sold at Bonhams in 2012 and that was registered in November 1903 and it's registration number was A 719, so A 718 would have been built and registered around the same date.
The radiator shape is similar to the Talbot Tourer as someone has mentioned but they were later than 1903, there was a 1903 Talbot 20hp, which I have found a photo of, but it is a side view so I cannot be sure the radiator is the same shape as the later Talbots.
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/6/6a/Im1903EnV95-p160a.jpg
 
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