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Solved: PN #1685 -- Gotfredson taxicab, 1925
« on: September 18, 2022, 07:14:02 AM »
Please identify this car for a point - brand and year will be sufficient

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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2022, 12:22:54 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2022, 10:10:54 AM »
Taxi?
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2022, 02:09:30 PM »
I believe so
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2022, 03:18:36 PM »
USA?
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2022, 10:10:06 PM »
this taxicab was not produced in the United States of America
(please note that words have been chosen extremely carefully)
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2022, 02:18:14 AM »
So it was intended to use in USA but was built elsewhere?
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2022, 06:33:01 AM »
So it was intended to use in USA but was built elsewhere?

no
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2022, 07:53:53 AM »
Then designed in USA for another country?
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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2022, 04:42:39 PM »
Gotfredson taxicab'1925
Gotfredson Truck Corp. Ltd.
Walkerville, Ontario, Canada

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Re: PN #1685
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2022, 12:18:02 AM »
indeed

Gotfredson built trucks in both the USA and Canada, but the taxicab was only built in Canada (as far as I know)
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