Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 2990 - Tracta Type E Coupé de Ville Faux Cabriolet by Letourneur & Marchand  (Read 751 times)

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Dignity and elegance.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2019, 01:47:17 PM »
Maybach

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2019, 02:16:03 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2019, 02:00:19 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2019, 02:10:59 AM »
Lancia?

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2019, 02:39:14 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2019, 08:22:08 AM »
The Tracta built for Madame Grégoire.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2019, 09:40:59 AM »
......sorry, for Madame Fenaille, of course! By Letourner et Marchand.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2019, 10:59:41 AM »
Yes, locked for you to add the model designation of the chassis.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2019, 01:34:48 PM »
Thanks!.....Type G, 20cv.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2019, 01:49:36 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2019, 01:06:00 PM »
....well please unlock.  If it's not type G, it could be only type F 17cv;....Grégoire's "Toutes mes Automobiles" has it as type G!

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2019, 01:24:50 PM »
No, I won't let you go so close to the answer.  ;)
My source tells me that the chassis was supplied to Letourneur & Marchand in July 1930, so it can't be a Type G which made its first appearance in 1931 at the Paris salon. It's not a Type F either, so what is left?

Still locked for you.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2019, 01:58:57 PM »
So it's a type E 15cv!......but they stuck an F/G grille on it.  What I would dearly like to know is what became of the Fenailles?  I have minimal evidence that Pierre survived until 1957, but that's it.

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Re: Wendax 2990
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2019, 03:53:13 PM »
Yes, according to Dominique Pagneux's book about Letourneur & Marchand the chassis was a Type E, chassis number 1005.