Author Topic: Solved: PN #1154 -- Tachikawa Engineering Laboratory (Telco) Electric Car, 1919  (Read 802 times)

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Please ID this car for a point - the name of the company and year will be sufficient
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2018, 04:30:00 AM »
Detroit Elctric 1922

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2018, 06:05:08 AM »
no, but it is electric
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2018, 06:45:53 AM »
Baker ?

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2018, 08:43:43 AM »
not Baker
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2018, 09:10:04 AM »
Milburn ?

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2018, 11:04:24 AM »
not American
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2018, 06:22:59 AM »
Background looks Japanese

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2018, 07:39:45 AM »
indeed
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2018, 03:26:39 PM »
Mitsubishi

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2018, 09:57:01 PM »
not that easy
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2018, 08:43:21 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2018, 11:29:04 AM »
It is an american electric car built under licence in Japan

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2018, 11:36:03 AM »
The source says original development, but looking at it, I would say you may be right
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2018, 02:19:02 AM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2018, 03:50:12 AM »
It is the 1919 Telco.

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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2018, 05:48:18 AM »
indeed by the Tachikawa Engineering Laboratory
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Re: PN #1154
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2018, 12:52:28 PM »
It is an american electric car built under licence in Japan
Given the date and the Japanese reputation as copyists, could it have been produced without a licence?
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