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Solved: Wendax 3218 - La Coloniale by Gustave Cros
« on: May 16, 2020, 01:47:41 AM »
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For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: wendax 3218
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2020, 02:01:03 AM »
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Re: wendax 3218
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2020, 06:08:03 AM »
Frontenac?

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Re: Wendax 3218
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2020, 07:54:08 AM »
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Re: Wendax 3218
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2020, 02:04:32 AM »
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Re: Wendax 3218
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2020, 03:41:23 AM »
European?

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Re: Wendax 3218
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2020, 03:59:12 AM »
This looks like 'La Coloniale', a rear propeller-powered car (just visible in the photo) made by M. Cros from Lyon, France, c.1913.
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Re: Wendax 3218
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2020, 04:57:58 AM »
Because that's what it is. One more point for you.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 3218 - La Coloniale by Gustave Cros
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2020, 05:04:44 AM »
Merci, and I didn’t know his first name was Gustav. I saw the photo on the top right in a very old magazine in France more than 20 years ago and made a note of the car due to its unusual rear propeller, so pleased to see some old hand written notes can be useful sometimes.
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Re: Solved: Wendax 3218 - La Coloniale by Gustave Cros
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2020, 10:44:05 AM »
How extraordinary!
To push it over those obstacles must need a lot of propellor power, but one has to ask how on earth it could be held in check or slowed on the downhill bits or even stopped.
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