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Solved: Wendax 1348 - Sicam
« on: September 09, 2014, 02:22:29 AM »
Light and small.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 1348
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2014, 02:34:55 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1348
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2014, 02:13:16 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1348
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2014, 02:20:48 AM »
French?
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Re: Wendax 1348
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2014, 03:37:08 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1348
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2014, 03:42:27 AM »
SICAM from about 1920?

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Re: Wendax 1348
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2014, 04:02:34 AM »
Exactly!

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1348 - Sicam
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2014, 08:03:00 AM »
Can we see the complete picture, without the red stuff on the front wheel?
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1348 - Sicam
« Reply #8 on: September 23, 2014, 08:49:14 AM »
The red stuff are the remains of an awkward "watermark". I don't have a picture without that.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1348 - Sicam
« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2014, 11:47:26 AM »
Another picture:

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1348 - Sicam
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2014, 07:38:46 AM »
Thanks. Looks oddly familiar. I might have already picked that one up from elsewhere.
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Solved: Wendax 4140 - SICAM
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2023, 03:32:22 AM »
Driving in the woods.

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2023, 02:16:35 AM »
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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2023, 03:19:35 AM »
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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2023, 04:01:18 AM »
French

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2023, 04:46:36 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2023, 10:07:24 AM »
1922 Sicam?

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #17 on: November 06, 2023, 02:06:33 PM »
According to my source it is not a Sicam, but there is a very close connection. Locked for you.

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #18 on: November 06, 2023, 03:28:13 PM »
I think it is a Sicam. It says brevets Violet. Is Violet the name you are looking for?

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #19 on: November 06, 2023, 04:03:39 PM »
No, my source made a connection to the company following Sicam, but I tend to think that my source may have got something wrong as I couldn't find any confirmation so far.

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2023, 02:17:20 PM »
I haven't been able to find anything else about this cyclecar, below another article aboui Sicam

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Re: Wendax 4140
« Reply #21 on: November 08, 2023, 03:24:55 PM »
I've reread my source again. It certainly is the SICAM cyclecar, designed by Charles Benoit, Abel Bardin and Marcel Violet. In my source it is called Pelican, but on the other hand it says that Benoit and Bardin (subsequent founders of Motobécane) were still employed at SICAM when it was built and finally destroyed by a fire. So it is one point for you and I'll merge it with my former SICAM puzzle.