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Title: JC What is the Story - A Rover 8 h.p. using the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin at 25 Nassau Street
Post by: DeAutogids on April 04, 2011, 02:28:31 PM
For 1 point identify what is shown here. A really detailed answer might get you 2. For that you need to provide me with at least 3 facts.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on April 11, 2011, 01:53:43 PM
It seems the rookies are too busy racing, so maybe the experts will identify the story
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: whcgt on April 12, 2011, 12:43:10 AM
Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on April 12, 2011, 04:15:22 AM
It isn't.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on April 26, 2011, 06:24:08 AM
No replies, so moving up
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Allan L on April 26, 2011, 08:32:38 AM
Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.
You won't remember petrol pumps like that, then?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Wendax on April 26, 2011, 08:37:06 AM
Is it the first petrol station on the Bahamas?  ;D
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on April 26, 2011, 01:39:13 PM
Is it the first petrol station on the Bahamas?  ;D
It isn't the first, or the Bahamas, but it is something special.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: guido66 on April 26, 2011, 02:22:10 PM
Is the car running on gas and refueled through the gaslight system?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on April 26, 2011, 03:19:20 PM
No, normal petrol
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: guido66 on May 19, 2011, 04:00:52 PM
Anti-theft device?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 19, 2011, 04:39:19 PM
I seem to have deleted the original picture.

OK.

1) The interesting thing of this picture is the place it is taken in, combined with the action depicted.
2) The make of the car is maybe not so easy to find out, but the location of the picture will open up likely suspects.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: guido66 on May 19, 2011, 05:11:10 PM
Moscow? Electric engine pre-heater?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Allan L on May 19, 2011, 05:49:49 PM
Looks as if it might be an 8 h.p. Rover V twin.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 04:07:20 AM
Looks as if it might be an 8 h.p. Rover V twin.
That's correct!
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 20, 2011, 04:13:27 AM
I suppose another likely location would be Long Island, New York
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 04:21:33 AM
It's more or less in between Moscow and New York.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 20, 2011, 04:28:26 AM
Ah - the Azores!  ^-^
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 20, 2011, 04:34:31 AM
Or, going in the other direction, a resident of Nassau Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, might require an engine block heater, which might get power from an electric street lamp pole.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 05:00:57 AM
Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.
You won't remember petrol pumps like that, then?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 20, 2011, 05:05:37 AM
Sorry - I didn't understand what that meant.  :-\
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Wendax on May 20, 2011, 05:16:22 AM
Looks as if it is in Dublin, 25 Nassau Street, nowadays Reads book store.
Back then The Nassau Motor Co by Keating, Walter, Jun., Motor Car Agent
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 05:19:35 AM
Nassau Street, Dublin it is!
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 05:23:52 AM
But now why did I scan this picture? So we know the car and the location.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Wendax on May 20, 2011, 05:36:17 AM
Because it is the famous Irish "Wild Rover"  :D :D :D
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 05:50:39 AM
Not really...
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Allan L on May 20, 2011, 08:40:42 AM
Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.
You won't remember petrol pumps like that, then?
Sorry - I didn't understand what that meant.  :-\
This is the kind of petrol pump we are looking at, and some of us remember a few still in use in the 1940s/50s

(http://www.petroliana.co.uk/images/History/th/Gilbert1.jpg)

perhaps it was the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 20, 2011, 09:29:11 AM
Thanks for that.  :thumbsup:

I've seen pumps that are similar (I'm no spring chicken myself), but the location is more akin to where I'd expect a streetlamp.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 09:30:51 AM
Think of that as a clue.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: guido66 on May 20, 2011, 12:35:24 PM
Coin operated petrol pump?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 12:36:35 PM
I am not sure of that, the article doesn't state it. I would assume not.

Principally speaking, of all the info combined,there is just one piece of the puzzle missing.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: guido66 on May 20, 2011, 12:38:37 PM
The petrol station attendant is missing?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Wendax on May 20, 2011, 02:57:25 PM
First self-service petrol station?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: D-type on May 24, 2011, 10:20:18 AM
 Time for silly questions:  Is the pump powered from the elecric street light  ???
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Allan L on May 24, 2011, 02:16:37 PM
I can't see a street light, electric or otherwise.
The pump that's shown would be hand-wound and might have had an illuminated top, but probably did not.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 25, 2011, 03:10:01 AM
First self-service petrol station?
Almost...
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 25, 2011, 05:00:10 AM
I can't see a street light, electric or otherwise.
The pump that's shown would be hand-wound and might have had an illuminated top, but probably did not.

As I've stated elsewhere, my eyesight is rapidly failing.  :)
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: D-type on May 25, 2011, 06:37:29 PM
First self-service petrol station?
Almost...
Was it a "serve yourself and leave the money in the honesty box" arrangement?
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 26, 2011, 04:28:50 AM
I think all the words are somewhere in the puzzle. It's a matter of combining it.

So location, car and why it is a special picture
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Wendax on May 26, 2011, 05:04:46 AM
A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first electrically powered petrol pump in Ireland.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 26, 2011, 06:18:41 AM
Almost there, but you need to change just one word into another word and one place.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Wendax on May 26, 2011, 06:37:25 AM
A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first hand powered petrol pump in Dublin.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 26, 2011, 06:43:22 AM
I feel so bad when I say it's not what I look for, but it has not so much to do with the working of the pump but the place.
Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: Allan L on May 26, 2011, 07:10:11 AM
Hard to know what you are after.
"A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first roadside petrol pump in the United Kingdom" is a possibility as it is probably before 1927.

Title: Re: JC What is the Story
Post by: DeAutogids on May 26, 2011, 08:11:14 AM
I will give it to you, as I was after the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.