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« Last Edit: October 14, 2009, 05:11:20 AM by Otto Puzzell »
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 05:13:28 AM »
Expert time
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 08:01:34 AM »
Could it be a French Darmont?
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2009, 08:34:34 AM »
D'Yrsan?
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2009, 11:22:36 AM »
Morgan

(or is that too obvious?)
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2009, 11:25:02 AM »
Ooops, we did not read carefully what this puzzle is about. So it looks like a dirt track from the mid-1920s in Europe, probably UK?
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2009, 12:53:29 PM »
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So it looks like a dirt track from the mid-1920s in Europe, probably UK?
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2009, 12:53:57 PM »
That looks like a dirt track, alright.
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2009, 07:59:12 PM »
If not Europe, is it Australia?

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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #9 on: October 08, 2009, 04:38:28 AM »
No sir.
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2009, 02:58:05 AM »
They don't look very happy, so I suppose that whatever it was that they were trying to do, they didn't manage to do it.

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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2009, 03:08:24 AM »
To my knowledge, the activity that took place here was completed. I have no explanation for their dour expressions - perhaps it was pre-event jitters, or post-event fatigue.
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2009, 03:25:23 PM »
From the environment I'd place this event to somewhere in USA. I'd say something interesting took place here, at the left an early 1910s racecar is visible, while the 3-wheeler at the center is from the 1920s or so.
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 12:54:07 AM »
This picture shows a close-up of two of the 16 cars competing in the 1st International Cycle Car Race held in Detroit in 1914.
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Re: Puzzle #1407
« Reply #14 on: October 14, 2009, 05:11:05 AM »
That's it!

Nicely done - you found the original pic, too!
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