Topic: Whaddyacallit #78 - SOLVED - 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan by Rothschild & fils

[Ray B.]

Ever seen this ?

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[Otto Puzzell]

Does that car have antlers?

[Ray B.]

Birdie num num.

[grobmotorix]

French?

[Ray B.]

Yes.

[@re]

Bucciali, Tracta, or maybe Voisin?

[Ray B.]

None of these.

[neilshouse]

Is it a Farman?

[Ray B.]

It is. I can't say it has a true model name, but can you find a little more, how it's been called for instance, and the point is yours.

[grobmotorix]

I knew I have this on my computer, too:

it is a 1923  Farman by Rothschild & Fils

Just some month ago I stumbled across it:

[Ray B.]

I just had it a 1923 Farman Aerodynamic Sedan. I'm a little puzzled by "Rotschild & Fils". That family was better known as bankers, and I didn't know there were coachbuilders among them, unless I'm wrong. Maybe it's a mistake by L'Illustration and they were the owners instead.

[grobmotorix]

There were quite some coachbuilders called Rothschild, even in the USA:

In 1910, the W.S. Seaman Co., a Milwaukee, Wisconsin coachbuilder, formed a partnership with Rothschild whereby Seaman produced Maurice J.
Rothschild-designed bodies for distribution in the mid-west, and even formed a subsidiary, the Rothschild-Seaman Co. for that purpose. Another Rothschild & Co. satellite sales office was located in Chicago at State & Van Buren Streets.

Another coachbuilder by the name of Rothschild was located in Boston in the early part of the century. They were known as Rothschild & Son and according to the New England Motor Vehicle Registration Roster of 1905, they produced a single 24 hp automobile for J.C. Phillips of Boston, that was registered as a Rothschild automobile. However there is no known connection between the New York and Boston firms. There was a third Rothschild in the coachbuilding business, but this firm, known as J. Rothschild & Fils, was located in Paris, France and had no known connection to any of the US Rothschilds, although they did have sales branches in London and Liverpool. 

source:

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/r/rothschild/rothschild.htm

May I ask if youīve developed a kind if cardboard file system with pics and data of all cars you come across?

[Ray B.]

Hmph... You tought me something. I should have checked coachbuilt.com before making that comment. I didn't because I thought they restricted to american coachbuilders.
 About your question: nothing so systematic. Just the files of some cars I gather for future puzzles, and those I find interesting, found here and there (Autopuzzles included), streamliners, concept cars, one-offs, etc...

[grobmotorix]

Maybe not very systematic, but Iīm sure itīs a kind of a little treasure.

And it will likely survive all the billions of pixels that form all the thousands of car pix on my hard disc drive, that canīt be read in some decades/years anymore...

[sixtee5cuda]

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