Col Anderson Model T

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by Lang

Vehicle number 3 is also a mystery (round top radiator and high bonnet hinge???) The Model T tall radiator did not come out until 1923 so not that.

You Are right about Vehicle no3. being out of the norm.

It is a Sizaire et Naudin. Sizaire Frères et Naudin was a French automobile manufacturer based in Paris between 1905 and 1921.

Certainly an unusual car to find on patrol.

Regards Rick

[Bob Moseley (RIP)]

Hi Lang - is this what you are looking for?

Bob

[JackM]

Originally Posted by lynx42

You Are right about Vehicle no3. being out of the norm.

It is a Sizaire et Naudin. Sizaire Frères et Naudin was a French automobile manufacturer based in Paris between 1905 and 1921.

Certainly an unusual car to find on patrol.

If you're referring to the third vehicle from the standing soldier on the left of the picture, then I'm not sure that you're right, Rick.

The French machine has a 10 spoke wheel on the front (but 12 on the rears - presumably to cope with the occasional additional weight ?), while the T has 12. Could the wheels be interchangeable ?

The front of the French vehicle is very different to the third T in the pic and the lights, radiators and the long cowl (from windscreen to bonnet) appear dissimilar.

We know from James' history that the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol had six Ts and the photo shows that - with an extra 7th vehicle which could be the captured German car (of unknown lineage), which he mentions briefly.

[Lang]

Thank you everyone for the interest - and it is a very interesting bit of our history quickly being lost.

I will pass this on to the Kiwi's who already have a Model T ambulance beside a WW1 fighter in a life-size diarama in the museum. There are several mentions of the Kiwis helping to suppress the upitty Arabs at Siwa in patrol cars, so they seem to have had them also and probably later in Palestine as well.

They want to build a couple of the patrol cars to take part in the WW1 aircraft flying section of the Wanaka air show (when Baron von Nasty gets forced down by Sir Percy Goodfellow and the patrol cars race to capture him). Might not be as spectacular as last show when a full size V2 rocket on its launch ramp was blown to bits at the last moment by Spitfires and Mustangs only 50 metres from the crowd - a few singed eyebrows!

Best show in the Southern Hemisphere, worth a trip.

Lang

[Lang]

Here is what the Kiwis have already.

[Local Chap]

That's not the Wanaka Museum, it's the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre near Blenheim, the one financed by Peter Jackson..

[Lang]

Yes, I know it is Omaka but many of the same guys are involved in the Wanaka show and the T's would probably finish up at Omaka after they did their acting.