Author Topic: Fun with Automotive Accessories / Solved by Tom_I, Oguerrerob, bentleybob & whc (Read 4385 times)

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #51 on:** September 09, 2012, 09:58:46 AM »

#3 I suspect the whited-out areas of the picture are making it a bear to solve. Maybe this clue will help

#7 From a well-know purveyor of electrical devices of all kinds.

#10 This company shares its name with 13 cities, 11 towns, and 14 townships in the US

#13 If you're looking to the North & East, you'll never get this one.

Tom_I · « **Reply #52 on:** September 09, 2012, 10:56:42 AM »

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on September 09, 2012, 09:58:46 AM

#10 This company shares its name with 13 cities, 11 towns, and 14 townships in the US

That'll be Springfield, then?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #53 on:** September 10, 2012, 04:34:16 AM »

Of course!

The fashionable lid is a Springfield Hat and Cap Company Auto Cap

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #54 on:** November 09, 2012, 05:58:35 AM »

I have some new group puzzles queued up, but I really think we need to close these older ones out.

I'm offering twice the regular points for solutions that are posted in this thread before 12:00 AM Monday, Eastern Standard Time.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #55 on:** January 25, 2013, 01:25:19 PM »

I'd like nothing more than to award some points and close out another old puzzle.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #56 on:** September 06, 2013, 11:58:38 AM »

#7 National Theatre Supply Drive In Movie Car Heater

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #57 on:** September 07, 2013, 05:24:55 AM »

You're halfway there (#7 is a heater) but it was made by another, better-known, company. It also predates drive-in movies by a number of years.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #58 on:** September 07, 2013, 03:21:53 PM »

EPRAD Inc. (Electronic Products - Research And Development)?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #59 on:** September 08, 2013, 04:03:23 AM »

More of a household name than EPRAD

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #60 on:** September 08, 2013, 07:45:57 AM »

Sheridan?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #61 on:** September 08, 2013, 08:13:23 AM »

No sir

4popoid · « **Reply #62 on:** February 06, 2014, 01:26:54 AM »

Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter for a Ford Model T by Hunter?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #63 on:** February 06, 2014, 03:06:25 AM »

Not one of those.

4popoid · « **Reply #64 on:** February 06, 2014, 02:08:27 PM »

Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter by Stewart-Warner?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #65 on:** February 07, 2014, 03:06:19 AM »

Quote from: 4popoid on February 06, 2014, 02:08:27 PM

Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter by Stewart-Warner?

No sir

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #66 on:** February 15, 2014, 06:39:12 AM »

#3 employed a type of radiation later favored by hippies.
#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.
#13 was also marketed using this image:

Tom_I · « **Reply #67 on:** February 15, 2014, 09:34:27 AM »

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 15, 2014, 06:39:12 AM

#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.

That must be Westinghouse. I don't know if this device had a specific name, but I think this is it, from a patent application. Just called "Automobile engine heater", it was patented in 1921 by Frank Thornton Jr. of the Westinghouse Electric Company.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #68 on:** February 16, 2014, 04:05:12 AM »

Quote from: Tom_I on February 15, 2014, 09:34:27 AM

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 15, 2014, 06:39:12 AM
#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.

That must be Westinghouse. I don't know if this device had a specific name, but I think this is it, from a patent application. Just called "Automobile engine heater", it was patented in 1921 by Frank Thornton Jr. of the Westinghouse Electric Company.

That is correct. It was promoted as: "Westinghouse Car (and Garage) heater" in 1920.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #69 on:** August 31, 2016, 02:50:47 PM »

13. I've found a similar device: Lighting Crank Starter Auto Mafam Rheydt GmbH 1913-18 Germany

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #70 on:** September 01, 2016, 05:40:29 AM »

Quote from: Oguerrerob on August 31, 2016, 02:50:47 PM

13. I've found a similar device: Lighting Crank Starter Auto Mafam Rheydt GmbH 1913-18 Germany

Very similar, indeed. #13 comes from another company, and a different land.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #71 on:** September 01, 2016, 03:01:34 PM »

13. 1911 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Self-Starter by Charles Kettering USA?

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #72 on:** September 02, 2016, 03:52:14 AM »

Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 01, 2016, 03:01:34 PM

13. 1911 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Self-Starter by Charles Kettering USA?

Much closer, geographically, but not an electric self starter.

This is also from a few years earlier.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #73 on:** September 02, 2016, 04:04:27 AM »

Here is a another pic, from the year after the puzzle pic was published.

Oguerrerob · « **Reply #74 on:** September 02, 2016, 05:11:46 AM »

The Prest-O-lite Starting Apparatus for Explosive Engines by James A. Allison, 1912-15 Indiana, USA?

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