Solved: PN #628 - Zbrojovka Z4, cca 1930

[pnegyesi]

As it happened a few times already, I found a photo which I can't identify. So here's a chance for an easy point - identify the car and give me proof and the point is yours
Thanks

[Otto Puzzell]

I thought the mascot might afford a clue - alas, it seems to be Emil Lejeune 'Aintree' or a copy thereof.

[João]

Is it a Czech family? I looks like a Zbrojovka Brno Z4, late twenties.

[Bill Murray]

Sadly, I cannot ID the car although I think João is maybe on the right track.  The vehicles from this company seem to have had a large assortment of radiator mascots/ornaments from what I see on the web.

I did, though, want to comment on the composition and the "look" of the photo which really struck me.

The "Patriarch" sitting behind the wheel, the oh so proud Papa in his very expensive coat with his legs crossed, a very nicely dressed Mama and then the two daughters.  Obviously rather wealthy folk.  In the doorway is, I imagine, one of the house servants and peeking out of the front window, perhaps the cook and another house servant.

Very evocative of how the well to do lived in the late twenties/up through most of the thirties.
I wonder what became of them after, say, 1938.

A most interesting period photograph which I will keep in my file whether or not we ever ID the car.

Thanks, Pal.

Bill

[nicanary]

Sadly, I cannot ID the car although I think João is maybe on the right track.  The vehicles from this company seem to have had a large assortment of radiator mascots/ornaments from what I see on the web.

I did, though, want to comment on the composition and the "look" of the photo which really struck me.

The "Patriarch" sitting behind the wheel, the oh so proud Papa in his very expensive coat with his legs crossed, a very nicely dressed Mama and then the two daughters.  Obviously rather wealthy folk.  In the doorway is, I imagine, one of the house servants and peeking out of the front window, perhaps the cook and another house servant.

Very evocative of how the well to do lived in the late twenties/up through most of the thirties.
I wonder what became of them after, say, 1938.

A most interesting period photograph which I will keep in my file whether or not we ever ID the car.

Thanks, Pal.

Bill

You echo my own thoughts exactly, including the reference to the approaching "upheaval" in Eastern Europe. The image provides great food for reflection.

[pnegyesi]

Add to that the fact that the family probably perished during the 2nd WW as this photo came from the Jewish Archives in Hungary.

If anyone needs a high resolution version of this photo, please PM me.

Thanks Joao, it looks very much like a Z4.