Topic: Ancient Accessory #268 - Ford Model T with a Hotchkiss Aircraft Starter

[Otto Puzzell]

For one point: identify the car (easy) and the purpose of the extra bits that have been attached to it. .  

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[billtorrance9999]

It's a Ford Model T with a Hotchkiss attachment for starting aircraft engines - shaft engages with the propeller and turns the engine over

[Otto Puzzell]

And with that, billtorrance9999, I'm pleased to promote you to the rank of Expert AutoPuzzler 

[Carnut]

And with that, billtorrance9999, I'm pleased to promote you to the rank of Expert AutoPuzzler 

Congratulations bill!
Hope we can look forward to some of your puzzles..

 

[Allan L]

Interesting result.
I've always known them as the Hucks Starters, named after Capt. Hucks RFC who invented it early in the Great War.
What was the Hotchkiss connection - did they make them, perhaps?

[Otto Puzzell]

I assumed (dangerous, I know), that bill's knowledge of the device exceeded my own. Since he identified the purpose of the contraption, he earned the point. After reading your reply, and doing some additional reading, the term "Huck Starter" seems to be almost universally applied to these, so I'm awarding you a second point.

[billtorrance9999]

Huck starter and Hotchkiss starter were similar devices according to be late father who worked with them in the RAF

[D-type]

This particular one looks like the Imperial War Museum's Model T which they call a Huck Starter.  There's a film on U-Tube