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1920 Yellow Cab Class: Cars, Limousine — Model origin: 
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◊ 2005-10-12 02:17 |
![[Image: roughestafrica01xl3.4845.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is160/roughestafrica01xl3.4845.jpg) -- Last edit: 2007-05-14 18:10:40 |
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◊ 2005-10-12 12:20 |
C'est une anglaise? ou une américaine?...on peut supposer que le film se passe en afrique "anglophone"? |
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◊ 2005-10-12 12:34 |
The film is American. The actor you can see in the second picture is Stan Laurel in one of his early apperances on celluloid! |
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◊ 2005-10-12 12:50 |
Delahaye ? |
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◊ 2005-10-12 21:11 |
I am quite shure, that it is not a Delahaye. You were thinking abot the "Torpédo Type 87"? http://www.delahaye.asso.fr/RdV-092.jpg The radiator is different on the Delahayes. I assume that it is an American car. For the identification the radiator, the wings, and in this case the wheels are important. Any guess is welcome! |
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◊ 2005-10-13 16:30 |
I wouldn't be surprized if this is a Berliet sedan from arund 1924-26. It's headlights and the wheels looks alot like a Berliet.![[Image: 26berliet.jpg]](http://www.adclassix.com/images/26berliet.jpg "http://www.adclassix.com/images/26berliet.jpg") |
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◊ 2005-10-13 20:05 |
I don't think so. The bonnet is really different, the roof flat, the front wing is round at his basis... |
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◊ 2005-10-28 19:28 |
The car seen here is a Checker taxicab model H or H2 of 1922 or very beginning of 1923. It is one of the early Checker taxicabs possibly still built by The Checker Cab Manufacturing Company in Illinois before the transfer of the company to the Kalamazoo Michigan facilities. Model H Checkers rode on a 117 inches wheelbase and were powered by a small flathead 4 cylinder Buda engine of 22.5 horsepower output.These cabs had a semi-open driver's compartment , wooden insrument panel , steering wheel and also typical wooden rear quarter window shutters ( such shutters were beautifully rendered in " Tintin en Amérique" by Hergé ) Wheels were plain disks of 32 inches.Headlights were as many American cars of the early twenties of the drum type.This example does not have the typical checkboard pattern on the cowl,beltline and parking lines as seen on the Checker Cab Company operated Checker vehicles and thus may have been operated by a smaller private cab company. I very much doubt that such cars ever made their way to Africa.Seems more like a Hollywood studios fantasy... |
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◊ 2005-10-28 20:22 |
Excellent informations!... shall we name it as a Checker H or Checker model H?..supposed for exemple it's rather a H than a H2?... |
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◊ 2005-10-28 20:28 |
j'ai été grillé...haha |
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◊ 2005-10-29 00:18 |
Thanks, pilou, for all the information! The film was made somewhere in the hills around Hollywood. Next to a lion and an elephant there is a bear and a skunk featured! Very African!! The car was probably hired from an LA taxi company. |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:01 |
In 1925, six companies were making taxicabs (I have the 1925 Association of Licenced Automibile Manufactures book in hand) 1. The Checker Cab model E (aile arrière courte, poignée arrière horizontale, pas de décoration verticale) 2. The H. C. S. Taxicab 3. The Premier Taxicab model 4-B 4. The Rauch & Lang Electric Taxicab (front looks like 1925 Renault) 5. The Reo Taxicab V-6 6. The Yellow Cab Brougham Taxicab model O-4 -- Last edit: 2006-06-23 22:32:02 |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:01 |
The movie was released in sept.1923  |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:03 |
SURE 100% its not a Checker = back door different and different radiator |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:06 |
Problem = none of the 5 back doors look like this one  |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:16 |
J'ai à peu près la même photo que dans mon livre = regardez le radiateur avant typique des Checker = ce n'est pas le même que sur la photo du film |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:39 |
Je cherche une photo d'une Yellow Cab 1920 = 99% de chance qu'il s'agit d'un modèle 1919-1921. |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:47 |
J'ai trouvé le jouet avec le bas de la portière arrière arrondi, mais la vraie voiture à trouver http://www.toyzine.com/auctions/morphy-2005-06-10/Arcade-Yellow-Cab.jpg |
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◊ 2006-06-23 22:58 |
Yvon, I think you have just volunteered to reclassify all the old taxicabs.  |
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◊ 2006-06-23 23:11 |
NOOOOOOOOOOO -- Last edit: 2006-06-23 23:12:10 |
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◊ 2010-04-12 08:28 |
We have a 1923 in Australia and it is beatiful and was hping that some one could give me a ball park figure on whjat a wheel is worth, and the pictured one here could have made it to Africa cos heaps made it to Ausrtails |
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