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Re: GG-42
« Reply #25 on: September 13, 2009, 12:34:56 PM »
In case none of the previous guesses are right... Antoine?


My answer wasn't followed by a questionmark.  ;)

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Re: GG-42
« Reply #26 on: September 13, 2009, 12:43:57 PM »
My answer wasn't followed by a questionmark.  ;)
That's true. In that case, it had better be right, or I'm going to have to give you a really hard time about it!  ;)
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Re: GG-42
« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2009, 12:54:29 PM »
That's true. In that case, it had better be right, or I'm going to have to give you a really hard time about it!  ;)

It's the risk I take for being arrogant.  ;D

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Re: GG-42
« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2009, 02:52:21 PM »
Linon

Yes, you've found it!

Here's the caption that was with the photo:
This well-dressed Ipswich couple are driving an early Linon voiturette (light car), probably a 1902 model with a single cylinder, 3 1/2 horsepower De Dion-Bouton engine. The man is dressed in long pants, jacket and cap, and the woman is wearing a large, feathered hat secured with a scarf.
Linon cars were built in Belgium by a father & son company of former bicycle makers. The car in the photograph is unusual in that the drive is taken from the front mounted engine to the rear wheels by a flat twisted belt, a system more commonly used to drive agricultural machinery at the time. Secured to the front of the dashboard, behind the oil lamps, is a glass and metal lubricator device.

 :-[ So the picture was not from Europe  :-[   I had made a note that the picture was from Ipswich, but didn't know about the Australia part!

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Re: GG-42 Linon 1902
« Reply #29 on: September 13, 2009, 02:58:33 PM »
OK, Mr. 75america... you're entitled to point at me with a smug smile and say "neener, neener." But after that I don't want to hear any more about it!  ;D
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Re: GG-42 Linon 1902
« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2017, 02:03:42 PM »
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