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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: DeAutogids on April 04, 2011, 02:28:31 PM
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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.
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It seems the rookies are too busy racing, so maybe the experts will identify the story
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Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.
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It isn't.
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No replies, so moving up
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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?
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Is it the first petrol station on the Bahamas? ;D
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Is it the first petrol station on the Bahamas? ;D
It isn't the first, or the Bahamas, but it is something special.
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Is the car running on gas and refueled through the gaslight system?
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No, normal petrol
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Anti-theft device?
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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.
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Moscow? Electric engine pre-heater?
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Looks as if it might be an 8 h.p. Rover V twin.
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Looks as if it might be an 8 h.p. Rover V twin.
That's correct!
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I suppose another likely location would be Long Island, New York
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It's more or less in between Moscow and New York.
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Ah - the Azores! ^-^
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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.
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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?
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Sorry - I didn't understand what that meant. :-\
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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
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Nassau Street, Dublin it is!
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But now why did I scan this picture? So we know the car and the location.
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Because it is the famous Irish "Wild Rover" :D :D :D
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Not really...
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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.
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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.
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Think of that as a clue.
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Coin operated petrol pump?
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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.
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The petrol station attendant is missing?
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First self-service petrol station?
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Time for silly questions: Is the pump powered from the elecric street light ???
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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.
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First self-service petrol station?
Almost...
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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. :)
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First self-service petrol station?
Almost...
Was it a "serve yourself and leave the money in the honesty box" arrangement?
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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
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A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first electrically powered petrol pump in Ireland.
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Almost there, but you need to change just one word into another word and one place.
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A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first hand powered petrol pump in Dublin.
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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.
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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.
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I will give it to you, as I was after the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.