Author Topic: Solved -PJ448- Claeys pedal car from Blankenberge (Read 3479 times)

Paul Jaray · « **on:** February 05, 2012, 06:02:36 AM »

I'm cleaning my archive...I'm finding some unnamed pics, can you help?
Who knows this car?

woodinsight · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2012, 12:49:20 PM »

Pedal driven?

Wendax · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2012, 02:21:04 PM »

The name at the side says M. Claeys, if I read it right. So it is probably some pedal car fun at the Belgian coast of the North Sea.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2012, 05:16:01 PM »

Quote from: woodinsight on February 05, 2012, 12:49:20 PM

Pedal driven?

So it's seems...but in the picture it's written 'The new X CV'

Quote from: Wendax on February 05, 2012, 02:21:04 PM

The name at the side says M. Claeys, if I read it right. So it is probably some pedal car fun at the Belgian coast of the North Sea.

It is Belgian!

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2012, 01:08:03 PM »

This picture is the front of a postcard.
Whit this information you should be able to find it within minutes.

woodinsight · « **Reply #5 on:** March 01, 2012, 04:06:40 AM »

Is it called a Flandria?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2012, 05:22:17 AM »

Not Flandria...

Wendax · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2012, 09:29:36 AM »

From Zeebrugge?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #8 on:** March 01, 2012, 10:00:54 AM »

Very close...it appeares in different postcards, one of them from a place distant 5\6km from Zeebrugge.

Wendax · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2012, 10:09:03 AM »

Knokke?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #10 on:** March 01, 2012, 11:21:29 AM »

Quote from: Wendax on March 01, 2012, 10:09:03 AM

Knokke?

The opposite direction...

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #11 on:** March 01, 2012, 11:35:32 AM »

Blankenberge?

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #12 on:** March 02, 2012, 02:31:31 AM »

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on March 01, 2012, 11:35:32 AM

Blankenberge?

Yes, this vehicle appeares in a postcard from Blankenberge.

João · « **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2012, 01:32:38 PM »

I can't see the first letter but it's something like J? hs, the new 4CV.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2012, 03:32:03 PM »

It won't take you much now...there is not a 'J' or 'H' in that 4-letter logo. It ends with 'S' but you'll find it looking in that source before than guessing all possible matches.
Locked for you for 48Hrs

guido66 · « **Reply #15 on:** May 09, 2012, 03:32:36 PM »

Open for all?

João · « **Reply #16 on:** May 09, 2012, 05:57:14 PM »

I believe so!

My guess : Sips?

Tom_I · « **Reply #17 on:** May 09, 2012, 06:22:57 PM »

The logo says "Nels", but I don't think it has anything to do with the car.

Nels is the name of the publishing company in Brussels that made the postcard. If you Google the name you will find many examples of their cards, with the name and logo on both front and back (examples below).

In fact, I think the company still exists today as Nels-Thill SA, Berthelotstraat 156-164, Brussels.

guido66 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 10, 2012, 12:53:21 AM »

These vehicles are called "cuistax", "billewagens", "billenwagens", "billekarren" or "billenkarren" and are still in use on the Belgian coast in a bit more modern form.

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #19 on:** May 10, 2012, 08:57:16 AM »

OK, seems we are close to a solution.
I had the name 'Nels' but as Tom_I pointed out it has nothing to do with the car and I was wrong.
This brings me back to Wendax reply #2, and the "M. Claeys" lead.
I have nohing more on this...can anyone connect the dots?

max · « **Reply #20 on:** May 14, 2012, 04:40:58 PM »

Not sure how much more in the way of dots there are. Claeys is a bike dealer in Blankenberge. Perhaps this was a home-build. The postcard is published by Nels, and the photographer, if I understand correctly, was O. Poppe-Matthys. The scene is at a place called BREDENE AAN ZEE, and the card will cost you 8 Euro (no bids yet).

Paul Jaray · « **Reply #21 on:** June 11, 2012, 12:08:08 PM »

Ok it seems that the answer is all here.
Point for Wendax.
Thank you Tom_I and max for your help.

Wendax · « **Reply #22 on:** October 15, 2021, 09:10:20 AM »

Another picture:

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