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Solved: Wendax 3821 - Traction Aérienne
« on: May 03, 2022, 01:26:16 AM »
A strange vehicle in front of a workshop.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2022, 02:17:11 PM »
1924 Helica, a similar car appeared at Goodwood in 2003.

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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2022, 02:57:05 PM »
Not a Helica

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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2022, 02:12:40 PM »
I believe that is a 1921 Leyat Eolia.  Helica relative.

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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2022, 03:50:57 PM »
Not a Leyat Eolia either

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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2022, 04:29:27 AM »
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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2022, 07:10:03 AM »
Traction Aérienne, by Joseph Archer. A few were built until 1926

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Re: Wendax 3821
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2022, 03:48:59 PM »
That's the one. Different from the Leyat cars it had front wheel steering.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 3821 - Traction Aérienne
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2022, 10:54:55 AM »
How confident are we about this? It is pretty much identical to the Eolia, which looks as though it also had front wheel steering, and the Tracrton Aerienne brochure suggests that they were also selling the Helica - my reading of it is that they were only distributors trying to sell Leyat products and other things, possibly under their own name. But that is only a guess - perhaps someone with better French and better eyesight than mine can decipher it.
The more I consider the nature of speed, the more mysterious I find it.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 3821 - Traction Aérienne
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2022, 11:07:07 AM »
I agree with you that it looks identical to the Leyat Éolia. I relied on a Traction Aérienne picture in Georgano's encyclopedia.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 3821 - Traction Aérienne
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2024, 10:23:17 AM »
A Traction Aérienne postcard without any mention of Leyat.  ???