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I have just noticed you have made a croped version of my image File:1903-Daimler-AA11-1198 crop.jpg which is a copyright violation as you should attribute the original uploader image File:1903-Daimler-AA11-1198.jpg as per the licence. I still hold the copyright of the derived imaged and should be credited, please take car in future, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 20:31, 25 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You have been kind enough to express appreciation of some of the Daimler pictures I’ve uploaded to wikipedia. Your “reward” is another one, but it comes with a request for help. I do not recognise the car.
I took the picture at an oldtimer fest here in Essex, England. It was surrounded by the most infuriating collection of mini-bollards which made it almost impossible to get a (bollard) free view. So I had no mental space left to wonder what it was and was in no mood to hang around trying to find someone to ask. Pity.
But I was confident that the tax office would tell me the engine size and with that information, Culshaw and Horrobin’s complete catalogue of British cars from Yr dot to 1975 would enable me, from that, to infer what it is.
Alas, the engine size is 1998 cc. The tax office might be wrong, but on this occasion there is no obvious reason why he should be. I would hazard a guess that the car is powered by a Ford engine (this is Essex), probably the V4 unit that fits into the Ford Corsair, the Ford Transit van, and as far as I can make out from people who know about squeezing engines into small places, almost everything else.
Which leaves the Daimler unidentified.
Any suggestions available for sharing, in your own time, would be gratefully received.
Thanks Charles! Just brilliant, what this cold and wet midwinter day needed! I suspect you are well ahead of me. First problem is the library found another customer who has taken 'my' reference book but I will get it back in due course. I've little hesitation in saying it is a 2¼-litre New Fifteen, Not the standard saloon six-light with fastback £475 shaped very like a differently blunt-nosed Snipe but the four-light sports saloon £485 - less passenger space (close-coupled) and a good large boot (profile very like the later Austin Sheerline) both announced mid-August 1937.
The standard six-light body rapidly morphed into the unfortunate-looking back-heavy DB18 with added boot.
The full factory range included a four-door (sic) true, see drop-head cabriolet by Tickford £590 which I suspect became the Dolphin.
The New Fifteen's engine: six-cyl, 2¼ litres, 16.2hp, wheelbase/track 9ft 6in and 4 ft 4in. e. & o.e..
But there is the hesitation, that engine size and those door hinges which are just too prominent to be original I think.
The coachwork looks identical (but in fact on a twelve inch longer wheelbase and wider track) with the very pretty Lanchester 14 Roadrider four-light sports saloon £340 announced a year earlier. The Roadrider's engine: six-cyl, just over 1.5 litres, 13.4hp, 43 @ 4,000 rpm, wheelbase/track 8ft 6in and 4 ft. Adjustable front seats(!) and independent front wheel springing were standard (why the engines and radiators suddenly moved forward).
Wonder if this car's engine was sleeved down as a wartime repair job when spares may have been unavailable or a Lanchester block bored-out as much as the engineer concerned dared?
In any case in my opinion your photograph should go on display identified as a 1937 Daimler New Fifteen four-light sports saloon
Source: The Times, Thursday, Aug 19, 1937; pg. 14; Issue 47767; col C
Cars Of 1938 Daimler And Lanchester FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT.
and display advertisement in same issue
Many thanks. I’ll upload it with that name and we’ll see if anyone has a better idea. I slightly doubt that they will, but life and Wikipedia are full of surprises. Sad to think that if we’d had this conversation thirty years ago, there would have been so many more people around to tell us “what” based on their own detailed memories of 1937. Still, that was a scarey time here in Europe, as everyone saw a rerun of the First World War on the horizon and no one had figured a way to prevent it (though some thought they might have done). The brutal truth was that too many of the pressures and real-world rivalries that had existed in 1914 remained in place and / or had returned to the agenda 25 years later, some of them arguably more intensified than the last time round. Back to cars.
What I had not mentioned - I think, now, that I should have done - was that the car I photographed appears to be in regular use as an upmarket hire car for summer weddings. So if you needed to replace the door hinges and could not get hold of fittings of the original grade(s) of steel, safety and reliability (and not getting sued) might very well be a higher priority than authenticity of hinge dimensions. I think this also favours my suggestion of an “off the shelf easy to service” Ford engine, though the idea of a “sleeved down” original (or even previously bored out) unit is an intriguing one. And then sitting down with appropriate measuring gauges and getting into the old familiar fights with the Great God Pi.. But still running like that 65 years after the war ended? Hmmm.
"...A bit like a [more brutally cut-down] Rover P1 sports saloon I photographed last year..."
Anyway, thank you for giving this so much soundly based thought. Certainly the back half of the car did look a bit like a cut-back version of something originally designed to take a more bulbous/spacious back end. A bit like a Rover P1 sports saloon I photographed last year. Then as frequently in the intervening decades, mainstream UK automakers followed one another pretty mindlessly in matters of car design.
Risk of further digression beckons. But again, thank you much.
Isn't two a better pic? Might I try bollard extraction with Adobe elements?
Yes, I could have got several better angles without those bleeping bollardlets. If you think you can improve the better angled picture in respect of those things, please (time permitting) do it and I will not object. However, when I tried it with the shadow of a lamp post on another car (image attached) I gave up. Ditto an experienced wiki improver of images with whom I was in touch at the time. Wheels are difficult things.
Wedding car. The mascot's quite acrobatic. Yr thoughts re hinges v. sound. Wondered about the carefully placed brochures. Until they decided to copy (very nicely) the 1955 Plymouth all Rovers were, er, distinctive weren't they. I believe the 2000TC was meant by the Wilks to have a nose like a DS19 but their board would not wear it.
Need to discuss multinationals and feelings with you and here might be a good place to do it, later when I have sorted some things out. It takes a full century to forget things. The US civil war was still a recurring subject 40 years ago. Eddaido (talk) 10:38, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Not sure where this leads, but since my great grandmother was born near Charleston SC, and once you get back to the early settler families at the end of the seventeenth century there were relatively few pink skinned families in the area, so we all tend to be inter-related from those parts, I therefore have lots of mostly fairly distant cousins with SC connections. I had not spotted, however, that the backwash from the civil war had gone away. It was a horrible thing, regardless of what you think the issues are now / were then, and the consequences endure. As far as multinationals are concerned, I'm not sure my feelings are particularly well honed. Except that I have worked for them in my time.
Hullo both, according to dear old Michael Sedgwick there were no Fifteens after 1936, which is why I originally suggested that it was either a DB17 or DB17/1. From what you both say "New 15" seemed the better answer and I was ready to bow my head in shame, but then I found a quote at the Daimler and Lanchester Centre (here): "2166cc from 1937, but by then it was the "New 15",aka DB17/1" - which would make it seem that we can all be right. Upon closer reading, Sedgwick does mention that the DB17 was indeed called the Fifteen (even though it was of 16.2 tax hp). In either case, Daimler did like to confuse matters at the time. Mr.choppers (talk) 13:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
As for bollards, the best would be to take two or three pictures from very slightly differing positions, which would allow for easy photoshopping using elements from the various shots. Mr.choppers (talk) 13:28, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I suspect you people haven't used my new software. Stand by but don't hold the breath as it is now too long past bedtime. Eddaido (talk) 13:38, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
positive i.d. I may have lost the duvet for a moment but there was something about hurtling round and through high passes in my blue AlpineEddaido (talk) 21:41, 27 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This is a seriously impressive piece of evidence. Well done (without wishing to sound in any way patrinising) and thank you. Regards Charles01 (talk) 06:01, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am very sorry, I have overwritten your image file, can you fix it? A more massaged version to come in a moment, I shall try to understand better before I do it. Eddaido (talk) 11:35, 28 June 2011 (UTC) Arm, well, maybe that is what is supposed to happen? I see they are all equally accessable, very much hope no offence taken. Glad you liked the old ad. Nice to hear about S.C. My BWI lot lost interests in Carolina - Loyalists you see. Must look at the Alpine image. Many thanks for your assistance. Eddaido (talk) 11:55, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am not sure what happened, so don't take too much notice of any diagnosis implicit herein. But I can be very bad at letting others have the last word.
Yesterday (I think it must have been yesterday) I noticed the first image of the Daimler 15 that I had uploaded appeared to have disappeared. At the time when I noticed, I had already decided I wanted to upload a new version with a better name; so I was about to apply to have the earlier one deleted. So as far as the image is concerned, then, no harm done. None at all. That is ... assuming we are talking about the same incident. Which I think we must be. My first image had half (approx) a lady looking determinedly summery in shorts on the right margin. The second image, apart from having a more descriptive name, had this half lady cropped out. I hope no one minded. I also cropped out the tips of a couple of mini-bollards. The only thing that disappeared with the disappeared image that I had wanted to look at again was some helpful remarks from Mr Choppers on the discussion page. I did feel a bit bad about having lost these without having sufficiently digested them. But he has kindly summarized them as part of this present discussion, so after 24 (might be 48) hours, nothing is lost, even from the discussion. Clear as mud? Don't worry if it doesn't make total sense. I am easily confused by things computers do, with or without input from members of the human race. Regards Charles01 (talk) 13:09, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I think it comes down to you to make the decision as to which version is to be displayed. I'm looking forward to reading the new article on the Daimler New Fifteen. Eddaido (talk) 13:29, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
What happened wi'dem bollards? You seem to have mastered that debollarding software. Don't let me stop you if you want to get in first with a wiki-entry on the car. I'd probably get round to it eventually if you didn't, but you sound as if you may already have the bit halfway between your teeth on this one? I'm not sure I have too much text at my finger tips, tho the table on page 115 of Colshaw & H provides at least a starting point for an info box. Also this seems to have been the first Daimler with coil springs at the front which is consistent with the guff in the wonderful identifying ad you found, and does mark the car out a bit from the common herd.
Incidentally, have you noticed that the ad appears to describe the car as a six light saloon, whereas the car in the picture looks like what I would think of as a four light saloon? OR have I spent the first >50 years of my life with a private bordering on unique opinion of what a six light saloon looks like? Ho hum Charles01 (talk) 15:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No, no. Here's an ad for the six-light standard super-staid version here. Anyone can see why any Daimler exec. could have seen a need for a 'sports saloon' version and with "Toughened Wood". Someone should tell NASA and send a core-sample from YSJ407 though it is probably what holds it all together. Anyway I think they put the (new design) (Military) Scout engine into this same (6-light) chassis/body combo and called it DB18. Something new every day, I see close-coupled comes from animals with a short loin / short back.
And certain royal cars of the time had their grilles painted black - which may account for the wholly original condition (yeah hinges). I suspect that if the docs are lost (and plate?) one is obliged to re-register the car from scratch. The dreadful rust does not suggest Malta but well-salted winter roads. I don't like the bent badge-bar and you don't like licence numbers... Eddaido (talk) 21:59, 28 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OK, I didn't hold off for very long. But you can see (1) I really don't know too much about the car and (2) I'm pretty hazy about the timelines. Additions and probably corrections from someone armed with knowledge and sources are needed. That's you. I guess I'll ask Malcolm, too. He knows a lot about cars from this period when he has time to add to an entry, though as far as I know he doesn't have any particular specialism regarding Daimlers. As you may know, somewhere round 1933 the British auto-industry became the largest national auto-industry in Europe. Then as now currency devaluation while desperately trying to talk about something else didn't do too much for the nation's savers and pensioners, but it did encourage investment and consumption which provided the UK government a short term credit-cushioned recovery that enabled the British economy to outgrow the French for a bit. French wiki isn't, for the most part, so interested in cars, but often with English cars from the 1930s there are German entries one can copy from a guy called (I think) Hans-Martin who lives near the western frontier of Bavaria, and there's an Italian called Luc from whom I sometimes translate Italian language text, but on this car I couldn't find anything from any of our enthusiasts on continental Europe. So for now we, the anglophones seem to be on our own as regards this model! Regards Charles01 (talk) 09:37, 29 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Charles, that is Marvellous. Still amused as I had indeed read your comment as indicating enthusiasm! No Need to choose that image. Europeans. Yes, I sometimes have a look too. Google translate seems wonderful, but only at first. re planned consultation. On Ford of Britain (The associated companies) I came to a halt with the involvement in Ford of Germany 1932-1945. My proposed note is gestating but I thought I would put the draft here for you to edit first before I added it to the Ford of B article (rather than any mention on Ford of G which can be someone else's job - if it needs to be on record). Did I tie up Ford France OK (on F of B)? Might go a little further into that. I'm not going to forget but it might be a while before I 'get it out on paper' and will leave you a note when have put it here for your perusal etc. Eddaido (talk) 10:19, 29 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I ran an eye over the Ford of Britain entry which was interesting. Living much of my life in Britain in Essex, I've been aware of the company for as long as I can remember. It's fun to see other people coming at half remembered facts and background from different angles. Even now, they seem to be one of the best employers locally in Essex in terms of the apparent newness of the cars and clothes of the people who work for them. I've started a couple of entries on their plants, but you've - at least I think it must be you: I've not "audited" each change - really got to grips with the way the company ownership structure evolved. Big subject. And there are so many english speaking people around who used to work for Ford that almost inevitably the entry will lose coherence over time simply because of the large number of people all (well almost all) of whom will have interesting stuff to contribute, but all of whom will in their own minds structure the overall entry differently. Thus a strength and a weakness of the wiki-project. But right now the entry is looking uncommonly coherent. Thanks. Probably (in English) an entry of Ford of Germany or Ford in France would receive much less editing, and so to the extent that it's fun to come back after five years and find stuff one wrote still, broadly, intact, work there might be less frustrating. But this is speculative as I haven't looked at either recently. Probably soon will. The problem that screams to me on Ford of Germany in English language wikipedia is the Ford Taunus entry. It really screams (I think) to be broken up into separate entries for different models. I see (on a brief glance) that German language wiki provides a more useful structural model than it did last time (probably a couple of years back) I had these thoughts. Though I have the sense that even in Germany and even at the time successive Ford models weren't as clearly differentiated a successive Opel models, and today there seems to be less warmth concerning "classic car period" Fords than contemporary Opels. I guess in Germany the Opels at almost every level and at almost every stage in time outsold the poor old Fords even at the time. Ford from Cologne were having to compete just on price far too much of the time. Ach, just rambling. Time to leave the wiki-screen. Regards Charles01 (talk) 19:41, 30 June 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Definitely not with disrupting the day jobs or even the morning's second cup of coffee. But I've just been to an unexpectedly interesting classic car show, and though it had none of the cars I'd been hoping to see it did include some interesting ones that I hadn't.
This car (the Daimler) has already been photographed and the image uploaded by someone else. But I thought the profile shot was maybe still worthwhile. However, there's a problem as you can see. After your miracle working with the Daimler New 15 I thought there could be no harm in trying to tempt you with this one. But if it's not worth it, feel free to resist any temptation.
The Jowett I think is a Jowett Ten. It just could be a Jowett Eight. Either way, I'm only about 85% sure of my ground. I remember, I think, you have a particular thing with Jowetts. It would be reassuring (or not) if you do recognise it if you could tell me whether you agree over what it is.
Like I said, not urgent. I have to collect one of the kids. But thanks for any thoughts to share and best wishes. Charles01 (talk) 18:24, 24 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Daimler 22hpDaimler 20hp open tourer torpedo-style body (1913 example)
The profile shot of the Daimler is worthwhile but I cannot adequately repair the finned top to its radiator. Perhaps another time a long arm might be a little officious and extract any obscuring flagstaff for the briefest moment? Curiously enough, concerned at the way your picture of a 20 hp Daimler differs so much from the car in discussion I phoned the owner of the red car a couple of weeks ago to see if the wheels were unusually large - they are, so I noted that below the pic. And then I got to enlarging the tyre size in the grey car and they are almost as large! Why are the cars so different in proportion/scale? Incidentally the 9½ is because it is on a 9ft 6inch wheelbase. Useful data, just unexpected. I must get back that Daimler book.
I must revive my interest in Jowett too. I have had the material (from an expert) for an embarrassingly long time and been distracted. Am trying to get back into the almost too hard basket. I must post up a draft of Ford too. So much to do and on WP too. There may not have been a lot of models available at this timeEddaido (talk) 13:12, 29 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hmmm I think it has to be a Jowett Eight but the leading edge of the front mudguards seem to be different from the car in this photo Eight and that little badge in the hole for the crankhandle would be so easy to lose/swap and I would hate to have my life depend on this opinion. I'm only going on ideas from doing lots of Googling. (I should have noted, the blue car has flappy electric signalling arms, the beige car does not). Best. Eddaido (talk) 14:03, 29 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for the sharing of information and thoughts. On the Jowett I follow (most of) your logic. ("Most of..."? Well, I think when new any 1930s English (any European car with any turn indicator) car would have had flappy electric signalling arms (I think when I was young we called them "flippers" though the word "semaphore" also crops up sometimes.) The flashing lights will, I suggest, have been retrofitted because (1) the flippers stayed out if you switched off the ignition with one of them raised, and then you knocked them off when you got out of the car looking forwards, flipper directly behind you and (2) even if you didn't knock them off they were always going wrong and (3) other drivers no longer look out for flippers.) I don't think I'll change the name of the picture quite yet. Now the owner has it running I might even get another chance for a closer look at the grill-badge or word with the owner at an Oldtimerfest later in the summer. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 18:25, 30 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Going back to the red and grey Daimlers. I think the red car's springs are slung under the axles, whereas the grey car's springs are above the axles. I'd be very grateful if you could take a mental note to confirm/deny this if you see the red one again or notice similar vehicles about, I can't get certain from the photos. I see flippers are very much older than I knew. Eddaido (talk) 01:41, 31 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Noted. Both these cars seem to be "regulars" on the classic car scene round here so I might indeed get a chance to observe and / or photograph how the springs relate to the axles. Writing this reaction increases the chance that I'll remember, too.... Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:35, 31 July 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
It's this Rowland Brotherhood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Brotherhood, the engineer, as the source makes clear. I have no original provenance for the image but since it must be out of copyright due to its age, that shouldn't matter. I'd add it myself but I am currently banned from Wikipedia, so I am reliant upon the goodwill of others to improve it. Cheers. Rodhullandemu (talk) 11:16, 18 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. There is both a father and a son of the same name on that page. I didn't know you are in the Wikipedia dogbox but you'll be out soon no doubt and you can add it then. I have photos of this period and older and they are often amazingly clear. Can't you get a scan of the real original? Eddaido (talk) 02:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi Charles01, Briefly and from memory (so pretend this is in Wikipedia). When the tariff barriers went up in 1932 Ford promptly got on the right side of the local government. The biggest block of new shares were issued to I G Farben and Farben's chair took the local Ford chair (no public issue because Germany then diff in these matters, other shares were issued to some dealers). Ford in 1937 accepted the personal award of their highest civilian award from Hitler but in Sweden. Hitler unabashed admirer of HF. Interesting outcomes; when US troops (in the field) met German troops in 1945 they were angry to find the Germans using "their" transport. Ford was very unwilling to enter into (US) "Defence contracts". The works at Cologne survived the war miraculously unscathed (!?), just the admin block had been damaged (by I think retreating troops) in the last days (obviously by terrible accident demanding full compensation) and some of the machinery had been re-located within Cologne. France? I don't remember but of course they had been well organised and went straight into the right kind of production the minute France fell. Essential concept is International Capitalists are above politics and its petty fights. HF avoided personal gross post-war US public embarrassment by being apparently senile (prob true enough) and Edsel dead. Though of course did get some, just not the full treatment. Can provide here many external links to reports if you wish. Very interested in your thoughts. Must finish with Jowett. Despondent Eddaido (talk) 10:11, 29 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
My brush was too broad. Farben director (Carl Krauch) became deputy chairman. By 1943 shareholdings are said to have been Dearborn 52%, Dagenham 6%, Farben 42%. Hitler awarded HF Grand Cross of the German Eagle (highest award to a foreigner) for 75th birthday July 1938 and consul handed it over in Dearborn. Wonder what was picked up in Sweden. To what extent should this (any at all?) be covered in Ford of Britain? Eddaido (talk) 12:35, 29 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Well, it's all interesting stuff. To begin (as I tend to) at the end, presumably when you write "...[should] be covered in Ford of Britain?" you mean "...[should] be covered in Ford Germany? " Provided that's what you mean, then my answer is "yes, of course". However, as ever with wikipedia, you will need to be able to cite sources. That's much more important here than it usually is, because you are discussing Hitler. Hitler is the only bit of history they study at the schools in England, and we all have strong views because he was very bad, and this helps us to feel very good about England's own history. So I would suggest everything you write on Ford of Germany in the 1930s needs to be heavily sourced to avoid looking like any sort of personal opinion piece - which in any case would be unencyclopaedic.
As for Henry Ford, I claim no special insights. During the First world war I think the word on the street was that he tended towards pacifism which is why, during the First World War, Ford's the bit of Ford's contribution to the British War Effort is specially strong not on tanks but on agricultural tractors. (Though please appreciate that I come at this through the prism of English motor magazines. It might look different from the American mid-west.) I've no idea where you learned your history, but here in England, what we chiefly remember about the Americans and the First World War is that they joined it very late. Once you get to the World War II I think it's important to avoid reading history backwards, even if everyone does. I suspect the east coast patrician radical liberal establishment (read FDR and those who worshipped at his shrine) will always have regarded Hitler with suspicion and distaste. A resurgent Germany meant trouble for other world powers. But FDR's own economic policy was not a million miles from Hitler's or that of Maynard Keynes. We know what happened next. We know Hitler did vile stuff to millions of people. They didn't know in 1935 that he was that rare thing, a politician who actually believed his own propaganda. And there was nothing east coast or patrician about Henry Ford. In the mid-west there were lots of German settlers who were enthusiastic about the prospect of Germany finally taking her place at the top table of nations. If you look at all the people who spoke German at home but had to speak English in public, in the 1930s there were plenty at home and in the factories who clustered round the little radio in places like Milwaukee listening to the Fuehrer's speeches from across the sea. No doubt most were as horrified as everyone else when the extermination camp rumors started to emerge five years later, but you can't expect people to have foreseen all that stuff in 1935. And even if you ignore the millions of folks with German ancestors, there was a lot of anti-Britishness in the American mid-west triggered by the tense state of Anglo-Irish relations in the wake of the Irish civil war. Once you get to the Second World War, the Irish free state was resolutely neutral, but plenty of Irish citizens fought in the British armies against the Germans and were very badly treated by the Irish state, after the war. Loyalties and patriotisms everywhere - and certainly in the American mid-west - were a lot less one-dimensional than they became after 1945 and we all worked out that the good guys had won so it must have been the bad guys that had lost. This is not a mindless ramble. It is pointing out that if Henry Ford was sympathetic to the idea of a resurgent Germany in the 1930s, he was simply representing the time and place where he lived. In England, feeling was very divided about Germany in the 1930s. Lots of liberals and lefties - and of course Churchill and his very small band of supporters in the British political establishment - "saw through" the Nazis from before 1933, but the old political establishment mostly didn't. And it's only after six years of brilliant wartime propaganda that Hitler emerges - helped enormously by his own geneocidal policies - as a sort of pantomime villain, fulfilling much the same role that the Brits had imputed with equal success to Napoleon Buonaparte a century earlier. That's where, in the anglosphere, he's remained ever since, while "our" heroic ally, cuddly old Joe Stalin only slowly sinks to the same level of official "bad guy", despite the Iron curtain and the Cold War. Well, you don't need to follow me down all these tracks. But I do think that condemning Henry Ford for admiring Hitler only works if you read your history backwards. And real history actually travels forwards. Or? No doubt, if Germany had won the Second World War (and if they hadn't invaded Russia and if the Japanese hadn't done Pearl Harbor...) we'd be having this discussion in reverse. Henry Ford was sympathetic to the Brits! Yikes. Of course, Henry Ford was chiefly sympathetic to Henry Ford. He was driven by his own very powerful agenda which involved building a business and making lots of cars. He would have hoped to end up on the winning side even if the isolationists had kept Roosevelt from joining in with the war. No surprises there, methinks. Regards Charles01 (talk) 19:16, 29 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Isn't this where I'm called upon to disagree, angrily?
Disagreement one: I did mean Ford of Britain, I just wanted to show that they had some substantial hand in Ford activities on the Continent but it didn't last long did it. Will not consider at all writing anything in Ford of Germany article.
D2; I didn't say or mean HF was an admirer of Hitler though he may have been - but the admiration did flow the other way. I'm a sucker for flattery myself, simply can't get enough.
And finally D3, the way you cheerfully badmouth Uncle Joe Stalin fair takes the breath away. Only joking.
Otherwise I'd be content to use the same hymn sheet. Trouble with it is though that you are concerned with the why, I want to report what happened. What happened was that HF backed the wrong horse yet achieved a tails he won, heads he won result - he was as powerful as that, "capitalism red in tooth and claw". He had no alternative but to appear badly affected by the death of his unfortunate son(!) and 'they' were soft enough to let him off the treason charges.
Anyway, I want to say something like this in FoB. (Again from memory so it is unreliable) More capital was required and shares were privately issued to some Ford dealers and (biggest block) to I G Farben, the most cooperative of businesses, which then appointed Carl Krauch deputy chairman of Ford of Germany AG. In 1940 Ford Werke AG was incorporated to take over the business, the capital was again increased, Dearborn's shareholding reduced from 75% to 52% and Farben's increased to 42% leaving Dagenham at 6%. Dagenham's 6% was purchased by Dearborn in 1950. Eddaido (talk) 12:13, 30 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes. I'd read through the updates from the start of summer on the Ford of Britain entry, but hadn't really absorbed it to my long term memory. Having looked again, I can indeed see where the further detail on Ford of Germany in the 1930s would fit into the Ford of Britain entry (though I still say that a lot of it belongs in the Ford of Germany entry AS WELL). And I suppose having started down this road, there's scope for rolling out more on how the relationships involving Matford (and then from 1940 the Poissy based Ford business and how that got integrated into Cologne towards the end of the war) and involving the Russian enterprise panned out. And then ... I guess there's a whole lot more to be written about what Ford of Britain got up to inside Britain. On the one hand this could go on an awful long time, but on the other (1) we are all steered by our areas of knowledge and of interest - and those of our sources - and on the other (2) there is always a fine judgement on when to expand an existing entry and when to expand it into two new ones. I slightly wondered about splitting the Ford of Britain into more than one chronological sequence Maybe something like (1) FoB as an investee, (2) FoB as an international investor and (3) FoB as an automaker in ... um ... Britain. Tho for (3) as long as one leans heavily on non-specialist journalistic reports we'll get an awful lot in the 1960s - 80s on industrial relations which is valid but also sad, and rather ignores the way that between 1945 and say 1975 FoB really were setting the pace for the (again, sometimes a little sad) entire UK auto-industry. Don't pursue my idea of setting up more than one chronology unless it really "grabs" you. It looks like a lot of work and I'm not sure where it might lead!
I remember a few years ago a BC based friend arranged for me to have 6 months trial access to a Canadian based media outfit's on-line archive which included a massive searchable sub-archive of The Times of London. Can't help wondering if you've plugged into some equivalent deal. I'm afraid I used it chiefly for researching ancestors which feels rather introspective in the present context.
On Henry Ford and his relations with the German government of the time, I had, before replying, done some googling which pointed me to various anti-Henry conspiracy theories of the kind one finds on the web, and in that respect I almost certainly read more into your question than you'd put there. Sorry. Though I DO NOT retreat from my insistence that reading history backwards is something we should have grown out of (but in most cases haven't).
No further thoughts on this. On the Rolls Royce identification thank you for sharing yours. There has been a program on English television recently about Rolls-Royces in India and indeed, this could well be such a car. Like you I have with this been hovering between ghosts and phantoms which sounds a tad unnatural to say (write) the least.
I hesitate to ask you this one, because I think the answer is obvious. Then again....The engine appears to be a non-standard size, (if the tax office have it right) and I think that at some stage big Rolls Royces stopped being called Silver Ghost and started being called Phantom. Any, I think this must be a Silver Ghost. Does that work for you, please? And thank you. Regards Charles01 (talk) 06:58, 30 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm totally unbiassed - you see I know nothing about Rolls-Royces. I've spent an hour and a half on this without coming to any confident decision. Odd no shutters on the radiator (though I have seen it before) and there are louvres along the side of the bonnet, was it bound for a hot climate? No brakes on the front wheels. Permanent engine crank. I notice the badges on the front (great photo) might be Japanese or Chinese. More work on this tomorrow, I've gone sleepy Eddaido (talk) 13:53, 30 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
AARGH! Of course it must be a (late) Ghost, I've been trying to make it a Phantom, daft. Eddaido (talk) 14:12, 30 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
It does seem to me that this class of car (where I imagine a first buyer could easily be provided with variations in engine size etc) and which may well have been er restored quite a number of times (so no longer 'original') by now really does need expert knowledge, the kind that members of the owners' clubs will have. I once assumed that my errors in Wikipedia would be picked up and fixed by exactly those persons. Now I know they don't. It is my wish that Wikipedia's car articles improve to a standard where those people can no longer afford to disregard Wikipedia. I see there have been some recent excitements about 1920s, 1930s Bugattis that are not Bugattis, cars with identical engine and chassis numbers. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Park Ward it is. Noted. Thank you. Regards Charles01 (talk) 09:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The Chev was newish, I was 15 (my birthday) and all cars round here are RHD. Time now 12:58 Sunday am. Cheers Eddaido (talk) 12:58, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello Eddaido, I noticed that you added a few MGAs to Carbodies Coachwork. Were all MGAs built by Carbodies or is there some way to tell? Best, Mr.choppers (talk) 14:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I currently have this book from the library and I am scanning it to come up with a more accurate and detailed answer but so far it does not much trouble this author The Story of the MG Sports Car. Will come back to you here. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 11:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
this book should provide a firm answer All I need to do is find a copy and confirm it (easier said than done). In the meantime I will take the MGA photos out of the Carbodies article (but for the moment leave them in the Wikimedia category. OK? Eddaido (talk) 13:06, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm advised Carbodies made all the standard MG bodies to 1933. Post WW2: TC-TF were made by Morris Bodies, then Pressed Steel. I'm off to remove the bad mistakes from Wikimedia Category:Carbodies Coachwork. I hope to gather more reliable information and there may be further amendments. Thank you very much for so tactfully letting me know the error of my ways. I hate my own mistakes worst of all! Eddaido (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I honestly had no clue that you were incorrect, and was not suggesting anything such - if you were indeed misinformed I am glad that we are rectifying things, but I was absolutely not doubting your edits. I was asking because I simply wanted to know more about Carbodies and aid in further edits and categorization improvements. So amend away; I don't expect that you will allow any misconstructions to remain permanently. Mr.choppers (talk) 07:17, 15 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't want to be difficult (well, not very much and not most of the time) but I would have expected that these two either both did or else both didn't deserve a place in the Carbodies category. But, as ever, I reserve the right to have missed something blindingly obvious to other folks.
Hi Charles01, always good to hear from you, my thoughts too. Double check now under action. Will be back. Eddaido (talk) 22:25, 18 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The book, Carbodies: The Complete Story, has a photo of the Vogue Estates on the tracks at Carbodies. The author holds interview tapes of the then Director and General Manager of Carbodies saying they only converted Vogues and not Super Minxes to estates. Dunno why. Maybe Rootes needed to expand production of possibly only temporarily fashionable estates and decided this was the wiser way to do it? Regards, Eddaido (talk) 21:26, 19 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Interesting. Yes, I guess that might make sense. You expect the estate version to sell very slowly so you subcontract a conversion job to a trusted subcontractor (just as Vauxhall did/would with the Cresta PC estate) but the thing (Vogue/Super Minx estate) sells better than expected so you subsequently tool up to be able to do it on your own production lines which, above a certain volume, gives you the volume to amortize the additional fixed costs involved in introducing the necessary flexibility into your own in-house processes. BUT (and here I become ever more speculative) you have already signed a contract with Carbodies in respect of the Vogue, so you continue with Vogues by Carbodies even while you can ship the Hillman versions (and presuambly could ship the Singer versions) from you plant at Ryton. Hmmmm. And thanks. Charles01 (talk) 05:34, 20 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You were so kind about those pictures of the Rootes estate cars that I was moved to remember the wonderful remedial work you did on a Daimler picture of mine a few months ago.
Of course a Peugeot 302 is a small popular car whereas the Daimler was a gentleman's conveyance (which sounds more lawyerly than it was meant to). But there's still a whole lot of history in a little Peugeot. The first Peugeot, if I remember correctly, used a Daimler design, with Gottlieb's (paid for) consent. Much more civilised than the Opel:Citroen litigious spat >two decades later.
It's not the best picture I ever took, but the car's current rarity made me persevere. If the sun had been out, it would have been shining from directly behind the car, this being ten minutes after sunrise. But the sun was behind a low cloud at this stage. Also it was raining. So in all the circumstances, I don't think it's such a terrible picture. Though I still don't know whether the headlights, which are meant to be mounted behind the grill, were.
Not worth deferring critical projects. But of you just happened, one day, to have half an hour before the next task, and find yourself tempted to remove the yellow horror, that would be kind. I appreciate I know not what I ask, in terms of easy vs difficult, tie consuming vs brief etc.
Thanks for thinking on it. Regards Charles01 (talk) 19:59, 26 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I just leapt at this opportunity to show off my hard-won skills. Ten hours later I went looking for suitable dog pictures. Hard enough to draw a front wheel for a car that looks like it might be a photograph but this fairly complex wheel and with a mouse - Never! Sorry about my retreat into childishness. I just can't come up with a better solution. Please may I have something easier? If you were really insistent I could try to indicate headlights behind the grille. Let me know. Eddaido (talk) 12:21, 27 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Well, it'd definitely an improvement on the yellow horror. And it's even stopped licking its bits for long enough to look at the camera. Yellow horror never did that. Maybe I need to take a course in wheel drawing for myself. It shouldn't be that difficult.
I've never known any pug dogs myself but I think this animal must be something like five times life-size - that alone makes it notable does it not? And the pretty car for a backdrop just completes the picture. If you didn't come up with such clear images the job would be easier but as you do one must come up with a Perfect representation of a wheel, not just an indication of what's there. I look forward with great interest to seeing your post-graduate wheels. Wish I could do this for you. Give me a photo of an identical wheel without clamp and from the same angle and then it would be easy to fix. Pug1Pug2.
Is any one designer credited with the appearance of these cars? Eddaido (talk) 19:51, 27 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Does the chicken (another early riser) rate as an improvement? Maybe I could reduce its definition or colour or something to make it less prominent? Please provide any suggestions of alternatives for covering the complexities of that unreconstructable wheel! (or tell me to go do something else). Eddaido (talk) 06:12, 28 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Your chicken appears to be a sort of cut 'n shunt job. You have two chickens written off in separate smashes, but the back of one is ok and the front of the other is ok so you weld the two ok halves together and sell it as a kosher chicken. I wouldn't have the welding skills to attempt that, but I'm told it's amazing what you can do with photo-shop. My parents had a chicken called Greensleeves who used to come along on dog walks when I was very young but I was assured we still ate her. But I'm really out of my depth with chickens. And actually, I'm not even sure that the back end of your chicken is off a chicken. I think I'll go back to dreaming about Peugeots. Happy day Charles01 (talk) 14:17, 28 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oh dear. Sounds to me like a go do something else. I went and looked at the linked original chicken and I now see what you mean. I made a collection of available roosters in Flickr commons and this was a clamp shape, never considered its origins or appearance, just that it would do the job. And I was rather pleased with it. My nasty mess is booked for speedy deletion. I despond. Look at the beautiful detailing around the doors. Apologies, Eddaido (talk) 21:18, 28 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Anyway, if it were mine I'd have clamped the other three wheels too. The images stand on their own, So What if the owner is all possessive about it while in the public eye. We can all see what that 302 should look like and you are to be congratulated for your courage in halting all other operations to take the pictures. Weather clearing here, Eddaido (talk) 01:29, 29 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The other problem I've just noticed is that I was so pleased with myself for having spotted it that I uploaded it with the wrong name. Tiens as they say down south. Maybe I should stick to chickens after all Charles01 (talk) 15:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Dear #1. I am miserable to have proven such a letdown. In case it improves your estimation of me may I suggest that a well-positioned camera on the course of the London to Brighton Run (in I think a week's time) could capture many more sparkling Charles01 images of Peugeots young and old? Know it means packing a compass and a cut lunch but mightn't the spouse enjoy it? Help me, I'm clutching at straws here. My Highest regards, Eddaido (talk) 01:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Might be a tempting suggestion if a free day and bright sunlight coincide on a Sunday in early November. Charles01 (talk) 15:19, 29 October 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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All i know is that from time to time I see an old car which just looks wrong when matched with its description. This pair is too exotic for me. I've read of Bugattis now being duplicated and triplicated using the same engine and chassis numbers. They both look in such good order for their age yet I have an old schoolfriend long retired who has spent months chemically removing rust and working in new metal so that the engine of his old car is covered by what is still essentially the same piece of metal, I mean it is possible to make "a silk purse" out of a very badly rumpled "silk purse" if you see what I mean. I do know someone I can write to who lives near where the Aston Martin was exhibited and might know the owner or something of the car concerned. Here's someone in the same area does rebuilds Will let you know if I do find out anything. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 10:37, 5 June 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I was nearby (I took the Bugatti image) and neglected to ask the owner any questions. Bugatti owners are often loath to speak to mere mortals anyhow, my $300 watch being a possible obstacle to conversation. In any case, it was a beautiful car and hopefully someone will come along who can amend the description. Cheers, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 06:20, 11 June 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Well, here's all about the Aston Martin [[1]]. Easier than I thought! Found through the owner of a local dealer The Toy Shop and now I have just read to the end of the ad and, blow me down, I can sort of claim to know the (then) owner! Now is the hour Over to you to update the Wikimedia file. The opinion from The Toy Shop was the Bugatti is probably real. My watch problem is even uglier! Eddaido (talk) 01:23, 12 June 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Sorry for the late response. This is how it goes: The original image was on flickr under a license that lets you do anything you want with it and license it under the same license. There is no need to add the flickr template. I think that there is no issue with this. And by the way, amazing use of photoshop. If you have any more questions, please ask them here as I watchlisted your page :) — ΛΧΣ21 06:09, 20 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you for all this. My concern was for the owner of the copyright who was watching but he advised me yesterday (when I checked with him) he was not concerned about it. Many thanks, Eddaido (talk) 10:33, 20 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Yeah, but I find images I want and then tackle the owner and pester (as much as I dare which isn't much, but I must say I have received some very rude communications! Get Stuffed would be relatively polite) until I persuade them to give it the appropriate licence in e.g. Flickr or, best of all to make their own direct upload to Wikimedia. Anyway I have this sense of obligation to them to show them all is fair and above board - 'transparent', I'm 'accountable'? for what happens?, and that I am grateful to them for being so obliging. (As I am to the volunteers that administer Wikimedia - Thanks!) That particular donor was fascinated by the WP / WM structure and organisation etc etc (own words) "as a professional geek, I find it interesting to see all the 'behind the scenes' especially such behemoths as Wiki". Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 00:57, 21 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, I know. I have poked many users on Flickr to change their rights so that I can upload their pictures to Commons :) Thankfully, I have only had grateful interactions with those people and I let them know I am very grateful for their work and for giving me the permission to use it. Regards. — ΛΧΣ21 01:08, 21 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Why are you attempting to impose a category sort order of chronological years, even though this has almost no relevance in most cases and it disrupts any more rational cat sort order that's already there? Andy Dingley (talk) 09:58, 7 June 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Only because I find it extremely useful and no one else seems to use it. You mention a cat sort order already there, can you tell me where I can see this? I realise there is an automatic sort by the file name but then that fails once there is more than one contributor each with their own ideas for a file name. Going back to your general comment is there a particular example that may have caught this attention? I find it very useful for example with something like Model T cars where if they are in date order it is then easy to see the improvements. Eddaido (talk) 06:59, 8 June 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I think that for some cars, such a sorting makes a lot of sense - especially when they have already been subdivided into the smallest possible categories (ie, the Delahaye 135 MS rather than Delahaye vehicles). Personally, I have been hiding the chassis numbers of some cars I have photographed inside the category names, and I hope such information isn't deleted in the process of sorting by year. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 00:28, 2 October 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Its really nice to hear from you. I debated at length whether or not to begin a discussion about this on one of the talk pages and decided against it. I have been to some trouble to try to avoid destroying any categorisation my concern being to get all images of the same things together on one page. We have pictures of the same car by in some cases I think three different photographers and all categorised in different sub-categories because they had been categorised in bulk. This might be rude but it did seem to me this was quicker and easier for the uploader who is obliged to categorise and wants the job done as quickly and as easily as possible i.e. in bulk. This, it seemed to me, being so then I thought they were Very unlikely to even notice I had rejigged the categories of their contributions.
I would hate to have brought about a loss of info. Can you give me a guide to the images/categories with hidden chassis numbers so I can check? Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 00:55, 2 October 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Post script - you realise I just changed Delahaye 135 MS to Delahaye Type 135 MS so now it fits with the others? Eddaido (talk) 00:55, 2 October 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi, that car is a Daimler 250 V8, you can recognize it by the upper border of the front grille. It was a luxury version of the "normal" Jaguar Mark 2 and it was equipped with a 2.5 litre V8 engine, instead of the 2.4 and 3.4 litre engines that equipped the Jaguar siblings.
thanks for your message about the Alvis TE2 "Graber Super". I'm far from being an Alvis specialist, so if you really think that's better, then you should probably do it Anyway, I put it in a separate category for 2 reasons:
it was marked a TE2, not a TE21. Maybe that was only an error of the owner who wrote the identification card.
it looks clearly different than the others TE21's, especially regarding the wide radiator grille, front lights (guys in Morges told me they were from a Facel-Vega), boot with no handle, etc.
As I'm understanding things, Alvis chassis were bodied by various coachbuilders (I'll soon upload 2 TE21's I saw in Morges, a Park-Ward bodied coupé and a convertible whose coachbuilder I'm not sure, but I think it was Graber too. It has different front lights than the other ones, but if you can help me identify it …). I know for having seen it on last years' Morges' TC 108 Graber identification card that Graber had made various different bodies for Alvis chassis of the same kind (apparently there were not 2 similar TC 108 G's), so I suppose it may be the same for the TE21, or at least some of them.
This is my take on events, please understand I am not laying down a system of recognised historic facts. I've arranged reference books which I should go and collect.
1.Graber made beautiful very well finished very luxurious bodies, they put bodies on Bentleys, Lagondas and Alvises and . . . others. Indeed English cars were very popular in Switzerland in the 1940s and 50s. Alvis, it seems, still had a racy aura round the sanatoria.
2. Alvis seemed to prefer making big money out of defence contracts and then maybe making a few cars (as if a sideline). Eventually their car offering became an acute embarrassment. A speedy solution to a very urgent problem ( read this) was to gear up Graber and sell cars with their body as the now standard Alvis. This was the Alvis TC 108 Graber and Very expensive it was with all that duty on an import from Switzerland - no Common Market or even EFTA?.
3 Because the Graber car was a great looker it got attention but not enough sales at such a high price and so instead Alvis got the same body made in England by various parties finally settling on Park Ward.
4. Graber went on making the same bodies and putting them on Alvises (and other cars) and there is every reason why your car should be a TE2 Graber on a TE21 Alvis chassis because it is not a stock Alvis, it iis pehaps being described as a stock Alvis TE 21 chassis with a TE 2 Graber body - does that make sense? Yes Graber did use bits from other cars like Rolls-Royce tail lights etc and why not Facel Vega too.
5. With 1930s and 1940s and early 50's Bentley there were many coachbuilders. With Alvis there were only the two of any real consequence once they threw away the TC 21 body and they were Graber and Park Ward.
If you don't mind I would rather we had no sub-categories for Alvis coachbuilders but just put the Alvises in their own Alvis categories and their bodies when non-standard under the coachbuilders' names. Would that be OK? I don;t mind discussing it further.
In any case with the Alvis type of car it is always important to learn the coachbuilder if at all possible. I look forward to seeing your new images, I've admired quite a number in the recent past. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:09, 10 October 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for that pretty clear answer So I will upload the other Alvises in, say, the TE21 category for the first one, and just Alvis Cars for the one I'm not sure of (I sutpidely forgot to take a picture of its identification card) ; you or another Alvis specialist may be able to decide whether it's a TE21, TF21 or other, by the normal coachbuilder or by a custom one.
Concerning the TE2 Graber Super, as it's apparently a custom body on a standard chassis, I still think it should be in a category of its own: a car is made of chassis and body, so if it doesn't have a standard TE21 body, it's not a normal TE21, but a particular version of a TE21 - hence a specific subcategory of the TE21 cat' for the pictures of it. But, once again, that's only my opinion, cause I'd hate people to spot a picture of the Graber special and imagine its features were standard to all TE21. So, if you think it's better to put it in the "normal" TE21 category, feel free. I'm totally ready to admit I'm a fanatic of divisions in subcategories of subcategories
Oh and thanks for your compliments on my pictures, too. I'm trying to do my best with limited talent and, unfortunately, a poor camera. But it's really nice to see people like them!
HI, I'll respond on your talk page. Eddaido (talk) 20:43, 10 October 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello again,
I'm sorry if I made you think I saw a conflict there: I see none. We apparently have different opinions on how to organize pictures categories of cars who share the same chassis and engines, but have different bodyworks: I don't think that's really important. it's only that, to me, the bodywork is part of a car's identity. But I definitely have no problems with anyone not sharing that opinion.
I thought keeping the TE2 Graber pictures in a category that would itself be part of the TE21 category would have been a good compromise, but if you are definitely sure these pictures have to belong directly to the TE21 category, that's fine by me. You can move them following your idea: you're the guy organizing the Alvis car categories, I'm only the guy who came to spot some Alvises while I had my camera.
Thanks for the bit of Alvis history, seriously. But don't worry, I'm not a photographer, just a classic cars enthusiast who likes to share his passion . Oh, and for the Citroën Picasso, look here and there !
Hello, I can't quite figure out what you two decided on but would like to rename those pictures TE21 (rather than "TE2" which must have been a mistake by the owner). I found a number of similar cars online, all badged TE21 or TF21. Please do tell. Also I saw this amazing four-door TE21 by Graber! mr.choppers (talk)-en- 06:28, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wow, just found an old Graber-bodied Alvis Convertible, photographed in 2004 with the same BL-9920 license plate as the Graber TE21 coupé spotted by AkelaNDE! mr.choppers (talk)-en- 06:33, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't see any problem with that, I think a vertical stroke like 1 can be hard to see behind glass. Is renaming pictures something the ordinary (like me) can do? I asked for one to be deleted because I'd uploaded it again under a new name at the specific request of the photographer. I think Graber almost always made (makes?) very beautiful cars and they were always beautifully finished how do we get that photo of the four-door car into WP? Same for the lovely convertible but that must belong to a Swiss-resident Scot trying to minimise his Swiss taxes ;-) best regards, Eddaido (talk) 06:42, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Cool, that's how I felt (simply a missed "1"). I think our only chance of seeing the four-door here is if AkelaNDE spots it while carrying a camera. Or if the original photographer can be convinced to go through the convoluted OTRS procedure; I got a Swiss classic car dealer to do so with this Delahaye. To change names one has to become a filemover. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 07:01, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. That's a really neat little Delahaye. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 07:09, 16 November 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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No, not vandalism, an attempt to get the description corrected. On what basis has the description been created? Eddaido (talk) 20:30, 7 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You have been told multiple times where this description came from. --Denniss (talk) 23:33, 7 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes that is true. However it does not alter the simple fact that it is incorrect!! Eddaido (talk) 23:35, 7 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No. I recognise that the uploader must have collected the description from somewhere and took it on board in good faith. Nevertheless the vehicle in the photos is not a PA-type MG though it may incorporate part or parts of one within itself.
My suggestion would be that when someone uses the details on that brass plate to look up production records they will find an accurate description and (here is the problem) those records will describe a car substantially different from the recent assemblage (the "race car") in the photographs.
To leave these images identified incorrectly as they are only helps to bring Wikimedia and Wikipedia into disrepute. Eddaido (talk) 23:52, 7 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Since all the photos in this Category are of a James Young Bentley, it should be categorized thusly. This keeps the main James Young category from becoming overpopulated and is the preferred practice. As for the MG above, I will be happy to look into it with unbiased eyes. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 02:45, 8 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi Mr Choppers. re Bentleys I see I am going to have to write you my Sock Drawer essay. re MG pictures I cannot see how there can be a dispute, the facts are clear, there is no such thing as that type of MG answering to that description except perhaps one or two made from parts of other cars in the last couple of years. Case closed. As I say I do not see why there is a dispute. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:57, 8 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I can picture why you did this, but I believe that the Commons' style of categorization makes the pictures easier to find. "each image should be placed only in the most specific categories, and those categories should in turn be placed in their most specific categories." As for the MG PA6 Race, the owner seems to either believe that his car is such a beast, or he is out to trick the rest of the world. He calls himself PA6Race on youtube, and I believe that he is also the anonymous IP who uploaded a bunch of nonsense about a PA6 to the German MG PA Wikipedia entry back in 2010. So now I will gently try to make your opponents see this side of the story, we'll see how it goes. It seems to me to be a 1935 PA with a (possibly 1936) N-type six-cylinder engine fitted. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 03:49, 8 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. Sock drawers in the next working week. Eddaido (talk) 04:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
It is not a good idea to have characters such as ½ in a category name. This one should be renamed. Regards, Yann (talk) 16:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't suppose you have time and information with which to identify this? And please? And, indeed, thank you. The fact that It had a badge should help, but somehow even the badge looks suspiciously not quite like an awful lot of badges. Anyhow, the fuel seems to come from Esso. Best wishes Charles01 (talk)
That looks like Staffordshire grass, maybe Weston Park? Am getting out the Austin Bible and will advise. Have a nice rest of Easter, Eddaido (talk) 22:27, 20 April 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes indeed. Formerly the Earl of Bradford's home. Then I think his son tried to run it as a restaurant with all manner of bells and whistles. Now it seems to have been taken over by the quangocrats, but there's still a lot of fine parkland. Austin? Hmmm. Well, it usually (often...) is. As you see, I took a day out today so one or two home duties didn't get done. So I did them a huge tomato salad for supper to try and redress the veg deficit that sets in when teenagers do self catering (well yes, I know there are exceptions). Now it's much too late. Sleep. Best Charles01 (talk) 22:44, 20 April 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes? Heavy Twelve Windsor? c. 1927? And (if on home ground) well suited for the transport of close personal servants, confirmed maiden aunts or Cousin Claire from Jamaica. Otherwise usual transport for country solicitors with a good practice, self-drive on Sundays. Don't know why the logo was changed from time to time except that we do still "update" logos today. Your care and concern will be remembered fondly one day, probably when they're doing the same for your grandchildren. Wish they'd put another good clear label in the windscreen with the licence plate :) but here are some others the same: 1927and another and a drawing dated 2010 and NZ
almost identical, check with this photographer
Any more 'difficult' ones for me? Best, Eddaido (talk) 02:31, 21 April 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Brilliant. Thank you. I borrowed a very upmarket camera for yesterday and the pictures it takes do come with more MBs and the attached lens gives usefully less distortion at max/min zoom. But the pocket camera I tend to use is a whole lot quicker, and for the small wiki sized images .... let us just say a little sunshine goes a long way. That and a photo-friendly colo(u)r scheme on the car. Anyhow, I need to set about renaming this one, but I have a few more to upload first. Best. Charles01 (talk) 12:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC).Reply[reply]
On the "any more?" there's a Humber that I hope you'll check, but I'm cautiously confident that I know what it is - or will do if I can check the engine size and registration year with the DVLA. Anyhow, I haven't uploaded that one just yet.... That sounds like the bleepers in the kitchen. Time to turn Alex's Bratwurst and maybe put on the risotto (M's left over rice 'n veg from two days ago) for my lunch. I do seem to be unhealthily preoccupied with food.
PS. About old cars. View of part of the local car fleet in my youth, these (Sunday tripper, petrol still rationed) owners are from the more prosperous part of the community . Import controls will ensure serious starvation lasting until 1974.
This is the the one about which I did have some doubts. It's clearly a Humber because it has "Humber" written on it. Otherwise I identified it by googling the license plate and finding an auctioneers' summary. It looks quite carefully done as auctioneers' summaries go. Nevertheless, if you have the chance to take a look at the picture I uploaded and correct anything that doesn't quite add up, I would be grateful. Still suffering under a dreadful feverish cold/cough etc...that one of the kids bought home. Hope it goes away soon. The best to you, anyhow. Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:18, 24 April 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I feel sure you're right though for some reason in mid-depression 1930s Rootes Group switched off big display ads so I can't find certain confirmation. I am trying to accumulate some data in that area to make i.d. easier in future from just DVLA records. Anzac Day here, ever heard a country go silent? I exaggerate but not much. Equinoxial colds are the worst, hard to throw off I think but — best of luck. Eddaido (talk) 06:54, 25 April 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Humbers on the left need i.d.
So, here's a challenge for you! Eddaido (talk) 02:24, 26 April 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
As requested I asked the donor to switch the Flickr licence back again. At this point the donor was now being curt with me.
7:38 I ask him to switch the Flickr images again from ARR to CC by SA
8:37 an email from him saying he has done it
8:59 I send him an email saying:
"I finished changing the tags on the images in WP, thought about it for a minute or two, went back to check and they are all four now approved! This is how it usually is, not days later.
All Done! It is now safe for you to switch the licences in Flickr back to All rights reserved.
Thank you for putting up with this latest mucking about.
Will load up my photoshopped versions"
I'm sure you can read the official record from the page history with more faith than I can(!)
10:00 or thereabouts I go to upload the photoshopped versions and I see that the robot has reversed its earlier opinion! — because it must have gone back again at 9:50 and found the Flickr licence reverted? Or has it started a new run by repeating the last of its previous run or something?
I would happily swear in a high court that before 8:59 Flickreviewr had left a note saying that it had done its job and found everything correct. Now we have trouble over just the fourth image. Why has FlickreviewR done this re-run - which would explain the previous sudden rejection after a 3 days delay (when usually its a matter of minutes as it was 18 hours ago). Yrs miserable and frustrated Eddaido (talk) 01:40, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I can't explain exactly what happend but sometimes when FlickreviewR does not find the image size, which happens when images are cropped down from the original Flickr image, or it is a very high resolution, then it tags such images for human review. I reviewed the image, which we volunteer reviewers do when we get around to them, and only found the "All right reserved" licence on Flickr which is why I tagged it for deletion. Perhaps you can ask the deleting admin to review the image history, instead of swearing in court, and see if FlickreviewR did actually approve the original image uploaded (I did not see that), but then tagged it as needing human review. Perhpas this was because you modified the image but did not allow the image to be reviewed before telling the Flickr user to revert his licence. A litte patience might have prevented the problem which can hopefuly be resolved. I suggest that in future it might prove to be better to just upload the original Flickr image and allow FlickreviewR to approve it, and then upload the modified/photoshopped image separately under a slightly different name, tag it as a derivative or extracted work of the original upload, like this {{extracted from | original image name}} with links to the original but still showing the source as the Flickr url. Let me know if I can assist further. Ww2censor (talk) 08:17, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you very much. I've noted your suggestions including the template. I'm off to talk to the admin. Thanks for all your voluntary work! Regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:46, 5 August 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Saw this beautiful car at Lime Rock recently, but it leaves me baffled. The non-Brooklands windscreen in particular. Any suggestions beyond what I already wrote in the caption? It was for sale at US$75,000, so definitely not a real anything. Cheers, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 06:30, 11 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Nice car, your question is too tough for me. I've written and asked rileyrob for guidance -- will advise. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 23:03, 11 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Salut, je vous remercie pour les nombreuses belles images que vous donnez Wikimedia. Je vous écris pour demander si il serait possible pour vous fournir beaucoup plus d'informations quand vous donnez des images de vieilles voitures. Merci
(Google translate from - Hi, thank you for the many beautiful images you give Wikimedia. I write to ask if it would be possible for you to provide much more information when you give images of old cars. Thank you)
Bonjour, j'ajoute les informations disponibles sur les affiches présentant les véhicules. La plupart du temps, il n'y a de mentionné que la marque, le modèle ainsi que l'année. bonne journée.
(google translate) Hello, I add the information on the posters with vehicles. In most cases, there is only mentioned in the make, model and year. have a nice day.--Thesupermat (talk) 12:17, 15 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Why did you reverse these two categories? Surely the former is the parent of the latter? This is the pattern I've followed for all the 'manufacturer buses' categories I've created (which is quite a few), and I'm pretty sure when I did the first one I was following the established convention (manufacturer as the parent, manufacturer by location as a child cat). This is the first time I've seen anyone try to reverse it, so is there something I've missed here? Ultra7 (talk) 16:14, 31 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sorry, I have reverted my edit. Why is no one interested in Maudslay buses? Eddaido (talk) 03:57, 1 November 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. No idea, that museum example was the first I'd heard of the marque. I've not seen or heard of another one before or since. Perhaps it's the only surviving example? Ultra7 (talk) 17:23, 6 November 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This rather awkwardly modified car was photographed in a Film Studio in Changchun, China. It looks British, any clue? Cheers as always, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 04:50, 3 January 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Two things of note, the (postwar) black car's special grille and lamps yet it is otherwise quite complete and, on the heavy-lidded (not the round-eyed) car no windscreen wiper!
I think 1947 was Britain's coldest winter ever so this car probably came with an ice-scraper ;-) But I do think the black car might have been through a cultural revolution unless its a refugee from Hong Kong. Wish they were always so easy!
Thanks for your other message, I thought there was a virtue in sticking to the usual presentation of engine details. Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 06:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
PS maybe there are wipers on the red car but in an odd position for a car with opening screen? Eddaido (talk) 06:41, 3 January 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, I see some wipers in a very low position. Thanks! mr.choppers (talk)-en- 22:33, 3 January 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I know it is a 1.5-lire (not two) because of its spats. Decoration added in the hope of selling just a few more. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:44, 7 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Perhaps I should have explained, I learnt this in 1954. Eddaido (talk) 03:22, 7 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Great. I checked with the Vic registration authority, and it has chassis no RM22170 and engine number RMA12359. I hope that matches a 1.5 RME? mr.choppers (talk)-en- 23:53, 10 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Afraid I've no idea but how did you do that?
It has no running boards and built in sidelights — its a 1.5-litre or the plates have been changed to protect the innocent. Hardly a rare enough car to play those tricks deliberately, rebuild after an accident? Just a rebuild of ? looks all very shiny. Maybe those numbers are OK with a 1.5-litre? You need an on the spot committee of Riley experts (its obviously at a Riley gathering, someone will know). Who have you been checking with?
These cars were made to get rid of unsold stuff after they introduced the new Pathfinder for the 1953 Motor Show. 1953 a truly appalling year for the British motor industry, home (road tax revolt) and export customers (small slump after the burst of the start of the Korean war) went on a go-slow - terminal decline also of Jowett, Daimler as well as Riley etc. The last two "specialist cars" staggered on a few yards as part of bigger organisations. Eddaido (talk) 01:42, 11 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A bit more: fog/driving lights built in to valance, (best of all) vertical footwell ventilator scoop - who would bother to change that? Mind you, few things rot better than a fifties British car from the bottom of the door down. Eddaido (talk) 01:58, 11 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't doubt you in the least, I was just wondering how the original photographer got it wrong. The website is here: [2]. OSX gave me a list of links to Aussie registration sites, they're somewhere on one of my talkpages. Ta, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 22:54, 14 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sun can be very strong in Australia, specially for new arrivals. Thank you for the website. Here's another case of vague photographer / fussy editor here. Eddaido (talk) 23:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hi, thanks for this. Have written to the original uploader and now await reply (which might be almost instantaneous or . . . maybe not). I don't mind uploading it again if a suitable response arrives after the image is deleted. Eddaido (talk) 13:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Another better-informed editor has provided a new licence. Is this satisfactory? Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 01:36, 24 May 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for creating Category:1934 Ford automobiles modified, and all the other similarly named categories. In my opinion these are very useful categories, particularly for documenting 1930s hot rods. However, I think the names of the categories could be improved; I believe that either Category:1934 Ford automobiles (modified) or Category:Modified 1934 Ford automobiles would work better and read more easily. Feel free to disagree, but I think modifying the naming convention in this (or in a similar) way would constitute an improvement. Also, creating a parent category such as Category:Ford automobiles (modified) or Category:Modified Ford automobiles for these categories could be pretty useful as well. I'd be happy to make these edits myself, but I wanted to run them by you first. Thanks again for all your hard work here on Commons!
Thanks for your thanks, Michael. The way I see it customised cars and hot rods just belong under just those categories, the original manufacturer is a minor thing. Aren't they all individual works of art? Samples are all that I would have thought useful. Nevertheless, maybe if I could find a nice enough photo of my own personal transport I could upload it too and join the crowd. My concern is that for most people today the original cars are now near as exotic as, say, a 1905 Locomobile. They need to know what they looked like, or rather if they want to know what they looked like they should be able to find out in Wikipedia / Commons. So I think the right thing needs to be separated out from the (often beautifully) knocked about example. Having said all that and it seems we agree in practice I'm not sure why there might be value in adding parentheses to modified. Another couple of keystrokes is all and I don't think that matters much so if you really like it do it.
If we are lucky enough a donor / uploader will try to find the right category. I just think that adding modified to the end of the ordinary vehicles name is the simplest method and least confusing finding aid. Over the last 24 hours I've come upon several examples of a large number of identical cars classified under two almost identically named categories and yet the same cars. Category creator B didn't know A had been past before, I suppose. Also I've found where images have been categorised individually to a particular category then categorised again in total. I think this must be a simple mistake but it needs someone like you to back me up in case I'm shown to be wrong. Will come back to you on that detailing the cases concerned.
Parent categories would be a really good thing.
To recap, the parentheses seem to be surplus and while the more complex category name is, I wholly agree, a nicer description I do consider it would be much harder to track down (unless you know its there - will Ms or Mr Average Categoriser know its there?). And don't worry about me and Commons, I think I must have an IQ about the junior filing clerk level and I don't find the job too wearing. Let's know what you think about those category names.
Sorry, Eddaido, I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. I completely agree with your creation of "modified" categories. I just thought that the naming convention, "Ford automobiles modified", didn't read particularly well, and that maybe "Ford automobiles (modified)" or (perhaps even better) "Modified Ford automobiles" would work better. The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning toward the latter; I think it sounds more natural, to my ear at least. I'd love to create a parent category, but I think naming it "Modified Ford automobiles" might be better than "Ford automobiles modified". Michael Barera (talk) 02:00, 1 June 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I too like "Modified Ford automobiles" for the parent category and I look forward to seeing it. Haven't forgotten I need to show you those items giving me puzzlement. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:07, 1 June 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Done Alright, Eddaido, I've now created the categories Category:Modified Ford automobiles, Category:Modified Chevrolet automobiles, and Category:Modified automobiles. I really do think the "Modified [] automobiles" naming convention looks better for them. Please feel free to modify these categories (and add new parallel ones) as you see fit. And please don't hesitate to message me with your question(s); I can't promise any results, but I'll always be happy to help as much as I can. I always enjoy conversing with you. All the best! Michael Barera (talk) 02:47, 1 June 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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I regret that I have no German language ability. I changed the category because I do not believe it was in the correct one and the new one is better suited. I do not dispute that it is a Bentley Mark VI chassis. There seems to me to be every probablility that is so. However its bodywork (and more) is clearly unique and special and the images should be classified accordingly. I hope Mr Google does his work properly! Kind regards,
Ich bedauere, dass ich keine deutschen Sprachkenntnisse. Ich habe die Kategorie, weil ich nicht glaube, es war in der richtigen und die neue besser geeignet ist. Ich bestreite nicht, dass es ein Bentley Mark VI-Chassis. Es scheint mir jedes probablility, die so sein. Doch seine Karosserie (und mehr) ist eindeutig einzigartig und besonders, und die Bilder sollten entsprechend eingestuft werden. Ich hoffe, Herr Google macht seine Arbeit richtig! Freundliche Grüße, Eddaido (talk) 22:14, 26 August 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hello, Eddaido. When I created the new category "Armstrong Siddeley automobiles" in order to list the brand Armstrong Siddeley also in the category "Automobiles by brand" (and not just the generic "Vehicles by brand"), I thought it a good idea to order the different sub-categories alpha-numerically by model name. I think that's common standard with all automobile brands. Just compare any sizeable brand from "Alfa Romeo" to "Volvo". I didn't mean to do any harm. Is my edit problametical for you? We'll surely find a way to correct my edit if necessary. Kind regards, --Purzelbier (talk) 12:24, 8 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You're absolutely right - the sort logic escaped me and I shouldn't have changed it whithout contemplation or consult. I just didn't think twice. My knowledge in Armstrong Siddeley isn't deeper than that in Studebaker, Lancia or Borgward. When it comes to historic automobiles, I'm an absolute generalist, not a specialist in one brand. You're critique is absolutely justified. Therefore, I will restore the former sort key immediately. Beg your pardon. --Purzelbier (talk) 08:43, 9 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello Eddaido, I'm contacting you as you created the category "Austin 7 Big Seven". I found out that there also is another category "Austin Big 7" that contains further images of the same model, partially even of the very same specimen. So there obviously is a case of redundance. As your category contained more files and also useful information on the model, I nominated the other category "Austin Big 7" for discussion Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/02/Category:Austin Big 7. Later, I saw that your category has been created considerably later. Furthermore, the original creator of the other category contributed to the discussion, that the Austin Big 7 is a completely separate model in its own right and not a sub-model of the Austin 7. I'd appreciate if you participate in the discussion and give your vote how to clean up the redundance. Kind regards, --Purzelbier (talk) 10:41, 12 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello. I'm just looking at the Austin 12/4 images and decided to contact you, as on the one hand you sorted the category "Austin 12/4 Ascot" as it is and on the other hand you categorized the file "Austin 12-4 Saloon 1933.jpg" as "Austin 12/4 Ascot". As far as I know, "Ascot" is the body name of the 4-door saloon with projecting boot. This body was available on the Light 12/4 as well as on the 12/6 - but as far as I know not on the larger Heavy 12/4. So logically, any "12/4 Ascot" would be a "Light 12/4" - therefore wouldn't it be better to place the category "Austin 12/4 Ascot" as a sub-category of "Austin Light 12/4" as it is just one of several body styles of the latter model series? Furthermore, in my opinion the file "Austin 12-4 Saloon 1933.jpg" doesn't show an Ascot as it doesn't have a projeting boot; I think it must be a Harley saloon. If I'm right the file is categorized wrong and should be in the category "Austin Light 12/4". And last but not least there's the further file "1934 Austin 12 Harley.jpg" which obviously is categorized wrong, too. I'd appreciate if you let my know your opinion. Kind regards --Purzelbier (talk) 11:52, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This is fierce talk! I let all the details lie where they fell. Nobody seems to be clear about 12/4 and Heavy 12 etc etc cars and I just gave up. Sounds like you know much more so please edit as you think fit and I will have a look after it is over. This applies to Wikipedia as well as Commons, please adjust all the articles accordingly. Such a relief to find someone who knows about all this. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 11:58, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wait on. Are you identifying the cars in the photos or are you reading what the photographer has claimed the car is? Photographers, lovely pictures, may not mind too much about the car's i.d. Eddaido (talk) 12:04, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
My endeavour always is to identify the car, albeit my knowledge to do so is confined. Nevertheless, your compliments are encouriging. As I pointed out earlier, I see myself as a generalist in historic automobiles and my aim is to do edits only if I'm really sure about them (but of course I'm not unerring). I'd be pleased if you had a look on my edits on the categories "Light 12/4" and "12/4 Ascot". But there are so much more files that are suspect to me, whether the shown car is identified and categorized correctly - but I'm just not sure enough to go and edit. Look at the remaining first file "Classic Car Day - Trentham - 15 Feb 2009 - Flickr - 111 Emergency (55).jpg" in "Austin 12/4 Ascot" - is this really an Ascot as the description says? Or in other words, do early Ascots really have this sideline design, just like the Harley? Or the two files "R. D. Akers Invalid Car" in the superordinate category "Austin 12" - I can't say for sure, if the shown car is a (late) Heavy 12 or a Light 12, so I won't categorize it.--Purzelbier (talk) 12:34, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sounds to me as if we are of one mind. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 17:54, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Umm, I don't think the split of Austin 16 into 4 or 6 cylinder was necessary. Mixed together it is pretty clear which model is which so long as they are sorted in year -registered order. I know I might seem to be casual about new categories. That's because no-one else expressed any interest at all. Here I am expressing an interest, please let me know before making new Austin categories.
I see you changed the name of the 1940 Austin Sixteen file from the photographer's choice. I have made a nuisance of myself in contact with Austin history gurus and the short answer is that no-one knows for certain just when this model of car was first produced. It has an NSW licence plate. The NSW car registration database has been down for the last twelve hours but I will keep looking so we can look up that registration record. However I suspect this has been done before and it did not clarify things. Will come back when I know more. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 19:14, 16 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Well, I'm thankful for your opinion but I believe the separate categories for the Austin 16 are helpful and reasonable, because in my opinion the two series don't have much in common apart from the name.
Yes, and those very facts make the new categories superfluous. Eddaido (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The post-war 4cyl. 16 isn't the direct successor of the pre-war 6cyl 16 (that's the 18, but who am I telling that...), but not much more than a 12 with modern ohv-engine. Both cars even have completely separate Wikipedia-articles - and only the "pre-war" article was linked in Commons up to my edit. So for a layman, the relation between the post-war and the pre-war 16 wasn't very clear. And that this leads to confusion is proven by the controversial "1940 Austin 18" which you mentioned. The very car is shown on two files - one was already re-categorized by you as an Austin 16 (but not renamed, so the incorrect "1940 Austin 18" was already there and could confuse the beholder), the other file was still categorized as Austin 18. I think, the point is not the year "1940" or "1946" (in editing "1946", I just took over your own statement in the file's history, to be frank), the point is that the original submitter took this post-war 4cyl. "16" for an unrelated and considerably larger pre-war 6cyl "18". Therefore, I always make an effort to correct file titles which to my knowledge are definitely wrong.
To be frank, you seem to have missed the point that 1940 is most probably correct. No records exist to prove it is wrong. The (Victoria) licence plate is no longer registered. Eddaido (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
By the way, I've already created other Austin categories in the past like "Austin A60 pickup" (before that those cars were incorrectly categorized either as A50 or A55) or "Austin J2" (which weren't categorized at all). Furthermore, the whole "Cambridge" range categorization is a bit of a mess: For the A50, the pickup isn't categorized as a Cambridge; for the A55, the pickup is a Cambridge (as is the half-ton van), but not the Australian Utility coupe - and the A60 has no Cambridge at all in the category name and all the saloon-files now lie "un-sub-categorized" beside my new sub-category "A60 pickup". In short terms - the category layout for A50, A55 and A60 is completely inconsistent. What's your opinion on this? Regards--Purzelbier (talk) 21:26, 17 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't think I have an opinion on your last question. As I have said above I am very pleased someone is taking an interest in these things.Eddaido (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hm, I must admit I'm quite perplexed by your reaction.
To your first reply: How can it be superfluous to have different categories for completely different models that only share the same name? This would be like having the Alfa Romeo Giulietta from the 50s/60s and the one from the 70s/80s in one category just because everyone ought to realize that the homonymous cars don't have something in common. When I'm wrong - why are there different categories for the Austin 7 from before WW I and the 7 from the 20s/30s? Everyone can see that these are completely different cars (it's undoubtedly more obvious than with the pre-war and post-war 16) so why not putting them in one pot? And what about the two separate Wikipedia articles for the 16 - how shall the Commons-user know which article refers to which images, when there aren't two corresponding sub-categories?
To your second reply: I'm repeating myself, but it was you that sorted the file formerly known as "1940 Austin 18 Saloon.jpg" as "Austin 16|1946"; and when another editer changed it to "Austin 16|1940" you replied "Are you mad?" (source: file history). I just took over your statement of year in good faith.
To your third reply: Probably I missed the point due to English not being my mother tongue but I'm really puzzled. First you ask me to consult you before creating new Austin categories because you have an interest. But when I try to discuss how to clean up the mess with the Austin Cambridge sub-categories you state that you have no opinion. Shall I just go ahead and rearrange the categories as I think?
Regards, --Purzelbier (talk) 13:18, 19 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Our perplexity is entirely mutual. I remain glad of the interest of another editor. Please may I know the location of your are you mad comment. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 19:42, 19 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ah, I see, sorry about that. Can give no useful explanation. Generally speaking I lose interest in cars made after about 1950 - because I am not interested in them and because I think there are still enough editors about who will remember them and —one must stop somewhere. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 08:58, 23 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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My pleasure. It looks to me exactly like an Austin 12/4 Clifton Tourer of 1928. Using this knowledge I managed to find a photo of a similar car here or maybe the other way round. The man in the backseat seems pleasingly unaware. Good to know you are out there with the camera. Very best wishes, Eddaido (talk) 21:38, 27 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wow, great photos too of the Vauxhall 20-60 and the 14 Light Six and the Morris Commercial and the early Snipe and the Alvis . . . I could go on — Eddaido (talk) 21:38, 27 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Too kind. Thanks. It's not the first time my son has loaned me that camera, but this time (he is very patient...) I am just beginning to remember when he tells me what (at least a few of) the "buttons" do. He says it's nearly ten years old and the modern ones are much better. But still only as good as the photographer's understanding of the knobs I say.... I left my glasses upstairs so I can't really see what I've written. Hope it makes sense. I'm back to bed. Best Charles01 (talk) 05:23, 28 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
(Puzzled local) "That's the top of their camper van you can see near the middle of the river"
Your pictures are always so beautifully clear. I feel that if I just tried hard enough I could read the fine print of the front page of that man's newspaper. Do you use a tripod? I think I am going to have to go out and make some of my own photos and my hand grows less steady all the time. I know some cameras claim to deal with that but otherwise there is not a lot wrong with the currently held 2004 sensibly priced apparatus. Eddaido (talk) 09:58, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
A recent discovery now displayed here. Looks like snowy ski slopes in the background. We have a great deal of trouble with cheerful Chinese self-drive tourists who leave the motorway and choose to drive on their preferred side of the road in what I'll call "the outback" (so different from those nice polite Japanese). The Chinese are also quite adventurous. Eddaido (talk) 10:09, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Funny you should mention tripods. I too notice that as I get older my hand shakes more. My pocket camera has some sort of anti-shake software, though it shows you a red hand surrounded by shake signs when the thing cuts in which is a bit ... undigified. The pix I took on Sunday, however, were with an older posher camera without such sophisticated antishake technology, and my tactic with that is simply to take a lot of pictures of each car and refuse to show you the blurry ones. And hurrah that we no longer have to pay for film.
But the reason it's funny you should mention tripods is that I have indeed ordered (last week) for the first time in my life a sort of tripod - a single extendable (but still, it says in the buyer reviews quoted, "quite heavy") stick - to rest on the ground, but it still hasn't arrived so (1) I wasn't using it on Sunday and (2) I therefore have no idea if it works. The other thing I notice about my pictures is that a lot of the better ones are taken from approximately the level of my stomach, because I feel with cars, as with dogs, they somehow look more "realistic" if you photograph them from their own level. That means photographing from about the level of my stomach or chest, depending on the height of the car, which means leaving a reasonable margin round the edge and then simply pointing the camera without looking through the viewfinder. If you've a screen on the back (I have) you can still check that the car was in the frame directly afterwards, but with a little practice it usually is. And I find my propensity for hand shake is less if I'm standing in a relaxed pose than it becomes if I'm crouching down trying to look at a screen/viewfinder on the level of where I can feel my breakfast/lunch doing what it does. Too much info? Wouldn't be the first time.
Yes, I suppose from your perspective, and mine since we came to live in England, the Japanese drive on the "right" side of the road and the Chinese, as far as I remember, drive on the "wrong" side. But not in Hong Kong. I have never been to either country. I used to have a good colleague from India who had grown up the son of a diplomat, so was familiar with the issues. When I asked him in all innocence whether back in Delhi people drive on the left side or the right side he roared with laughter and answered along the lines, "no". Charles01 (talk) 12:07, 29 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
1. As I may have mentioned before, I long ago gave up trying to categorise pix beyond the most basic level in wiki commons because doing so opens cans of worms which I have neither the necessary expertise (90%) or patience / diplomatic antennae (100%) to deal with. However, you are relatively fearless on such matters.
2. I cannot help noticing that this picture I took outside a supermarket of a German beer truck looks different from most (not all) the other pix in the same category. I sense that Ford failed to sell a lot of these things. However, you did kindly recategorise a picture I took on Sunday of the English equivalent. The relevant article on German wikipedia indicates that there was a first series (of what they call a Ford FK - I have no other source for that identification - yes [I do]) up till 1955 and a second series after 1955. IF you think it looks like a seriously good idea (and have the patience for followup in the event anyone else notices and disagrees....) I wonder how you would feel about separating it between catigeries for Serie 1 and Serie 2 - a bit like I see someone did for Vauxhall Victors not too long ago. ?. Your call. And maybe a slightly ungenerous manifestation of gratitude on my part for all the stuff you've already done in the ugly world of commons cats.
3. Classic car show I'd planned to go to yesterday cancelled due to lousy weather boo hiss. Sun was shining but there was a minor hurricane the preceding night. I guess the precautionary principal rules when everyone is scared shitless of their public liability insurance company.
This may see odd but I have been cheeky enough to have a go at dating the vehicles (has it had the effect you wanted?) but I don't want to create new categories for something I am completely unfamiliar with. Don't know what there may be that I don't know. I have been known to call in your help when confronted by an angry polyglot sure I have made a mistake in identity and I don't want to draw that reaction again. Mind if i leave category creation alone in this instance?
Very sorry about the classic car show and your likely finds there. Spring can't be far away. Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 02:47, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I read the link above and was interested to see that the second series FK tools were shipped to the UK for the Thames NC - I thought it looked familiar! Updating the categories. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 02:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
J'aimerai bien savoir en quoi une berline à capote comme la 2CV est un cabriolet ? Enfin, plutôt : pourquoi une seule et pas TOUTES ???? Mais, non, pas toutes... AUCUNE pour être précis et selon la définition de Wiki.fr : « [...]une automobile ouverte et découvrable grâce à une capote ou un toit escamotable, avec un pare-brise fixe, et des portes sans encadrement supérieur[...] », la 2CV n'en est pas un...
« Dans le doute, abstiens-toi », me disais toujours ma grand-mère. Tu t'autorevertes ou je le fais ?
This is a bit messy isn't it. How do you cope with at least two meanings for limousine? Eddaido (talk) 22:27, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oops... Sorry I thought you spoke French...
So : a 2CV is not a Cabriolet, it's, as seen in Wiki.en, a en:Cabrio coach with fully framed windows on its doors and side glass. Not easy to translate...
Examples : a cabriolet, a cabrio coach. May be we don't have the same definition in French and English...
No, no! The Alvis is not a cabriolet. It is a convertible. Do you not see what I mean? The little Opel you named a cabriocoach is (also) named cabriolimousine isn't it? My French is so bad I can often extract the wrong meaning or intent from a warm discussion and that can be perilous! I understand that Commons has to be used by all languages. Cabriolets as the term was used for cars in English lasted as long as the body style. Those with folding cantrails were absurdly expensive to build with fully lined (mohair for lightness and warmth) leather(?) roof and the heavy cantrails need the additional support given by the hood irons. At that price-level owners expected car side windows to close off properly and that needed the toprail. I believe on the equivalent today they do indeed have folding cantrails but the cantrails are very lightly made of a light material and are not a load-bearing part of the hood's structure. Best wishes, Eddaido (talk) 22:56, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Perhaps I should add that I believe that the small Citroen and Opel had that structure because they were of early unit construction and it was thought they needed that support for rigidity and they were made available because many buyers were still accustomed to (completely) open cars which through their simplicity were always the cheapest (so very different from those with folding cantrails). Eddaido (talk) 23:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I doubt that what you describe as a Coupé-cabriolet would have been so described when made. There are still real limousines being made, your picture is of a stretch limousine, the kind of very ugly thing that now blocks traffic in all our cities. but I agree its driver is walled off from her/his passengers and that makes it just an appalling example of a limousine.
Because a Norwegian gentleman is a European does not mean he must only be called European does it? He is allowed to be Norwegian isn't he and possibly different languages may have different names for him. The distinctive meaning for cabriolet is pretty much lost now but it does not stop it being a useful word to describe something different from a convertible or do I mean a distinctive form of convertible. As a monoglot convertible looks quite French to me but maybe some authority knew better and elected to ignore the precise meaning of cabrioilet? Regards, Eddaido (talk) 23:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Totally non urgent - which is not the same as non important, of course - but IF you were able to identify this and give it a less inane file name. Well, if you are tempted thank you. If not, no harm done. I thought that if I knew the engine size and the registration date I'd be able to figure out what it was for myself. But ... um ... no. Not yet, anyhow.
I hope things go well with you. I've just been to the last old timer show of the summer which is sad. But my Aussie sister in law is in Europe this week and she seems to think it's been winter for months already. Confusing stuff, weather. Best Charles01 (talk) 14:46, 29 August 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You Have been busy. But I regret Schaffen-Dienst is the last of the season. The simply astoundingly high quality of the photography has allowed me to read engine and chassis numbers on the scuttle and I am able to say confidently it is a 1934 Corsica coupé-cabriolet body on a Wolseley Hornet Special chassis. Just joking about the X-ray vision. Its all in the label on the windscreen. It is definitely springing here. Those Aussies can be so unreliable. All well here except all my close relatives are at a family wedding in Herefordshire last weekend, I miss them but they seem to have managed without me!
I'm afraid I have been obliged to knock one of your fine images off its Jaguar Mk V pedestal. Please revert if you insist but I think the new one is a much nicer picture. Over to you on that one. You have been uploading as I type, I may return. Good wishes, Eddaido (talk) 08:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Being a simple soul I'm only 90% sure I figured out where the joke ended. Not being able to look the fellow in the eye is one of the issues with on-line conversations. But I take it you mean these guys. Wikipedia seems to indicate that they were chiefly interested in big posh cars, but I take encouragement from the statement (also from wikipedia), "Almost every Corsica body is unique". Ah well, German wiki says they bodied Wolseleys. So why not a Hornet? Ach, but I should read you more carefully. It never occurred to me that that tiny disc on the screen could be so informative.
I've no objection to a change of image for the Jaguar Mk V. I have criticism of both pix in question, but apart, possibly, from Lothar Spurzem, I'm not sure anyone has uploaded a strikingly better one. And his is of a black car with a certain amount of reflection, another black car beside it, and quite a busy background, so that's not perfect either. Anyhow, I tend to leave image selection to others. I just produce the things.
The coupé cabriolet coachwork is by its very nature very expensive. Aside from the construction of the roof - I think always many layers of mohair wadding because it insulated against cold / heat and could withstand the rigours of climate - there are the doors with wind-up windows etc. That's no ordinary little Wolseley Special. The part I liked about Corsica is that you went along and chatted about your new car with them and in the end they and you made a drawing on the wall which they then used to build the car - no nonsense about designers or draftsmen or things like that and the men who did the real work were so good (so far as I know) they always came out with very handsome cars, often downright beautiful. Thanks too for the revision.
Thank you for the great photographs. Eddaido (talk) 22:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Info Hi! I didn't delete the category, because deleting will break external (non-wiki) use. The category is so old (from 2008), one can assume that other websites are using this category as well. Old category are to be redirected using {{category redirect|NEW-CATEGORY}} Just FYI. Cheers! --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 03:15, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you. I'll switch it back (if you haven't done it already). It is just one of those jobs, changing cars to automobiles (North Americans!) that one does when one trips over them. (Its actually Europeans have asked for this and it suits North Americans - but its such a long word). Ah you have done it already. Many thanks for that. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 03:22, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No problem. I try to catch those categories and redirect them. IF I notice them that is. It's a service we provide to other websites that use our stuff. Car has different meanings, from a passenger compartment on an airship to railway cars. I guess it's a valid request. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 04:25, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
True for some, just not where I come from. I didn't know of "other websites that use our stuff". Where can I find out about this? Eddaido (talk) 04:31, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Many websites fork information from Commons or Wikipedia. [3] is a good page to start to have a peek. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 05:13, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This category needs fixing and splitting. Napiers (either) didn't make both steam and petrol marine engines, they're two different companies. The Napiers involved were cousins or second cousins, but the companies have no shared history. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:05, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you Andy. I'll get into that. It was my understanding that Napier & Son was the original David Napier and his son. This is from the top of my head. One interesting thing is that they seem to have made printing machinery used for "security" printing - bank notes etc, a development of American Hoe patents. I will get into the subjects today. Eddaido (talk) 20:24, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
D Napier History. The publication of a history of the firm of D Napier and Son is being launched today. The book D Napier and Son 1808-1958 traces the story of the company from its first beginnings . . . The work which is published by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson at 35s has been written by C H Wilson and W J Reader. D. Napier History. The Times, Wednesday, Sep 10, 1958; pg. 14; Issue 54252 More to come. Eddaido (talk) 20:59, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Full title in a local catalogue: Men and machines : a history of D. Napier & Son, Engineers, Ltd, 1808-1958 / Charles Wilson & William Reader. Not in my local library but they will get it for me but it may be a few weeks - most of us are asleep in the sun and/or on the beach at the moment. Was hoping to find they raised money from the public at which time (companies) usually provide their history but it seem they didn't ever need help from the Stock Exchange - though they did raise loans. The company with that name was incorporated in 1913 by which time they were focussed on cars and aero engines and, as you say, the majority owners will have to be only descendants of the founder.
In the meantime what should be done about this category? Category:Napier & Son marine engines. In fact I would be very pleased if you would reorganise the categories, I do not have any technical knowledge about this at all. e.g. is a side lever engine a variant of a beam engine or quite different? Eddaido (talk) 22:25, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thank you. I see that. I believe that is not accurate. I will gather together some stuff but briefly the T26G is "open wheel", the T26GS has a wheel-shrouding body. I hope this seems to make sense. I shall return! Thanks and have a nice day, Eddaido (talk) 11:49, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Well, yes, maybe. Isn't it a little strange that the only appearances it makes on the internet are in photographs. I mean there is no authority confirming the supplied id which you in the file name confirm manages to be wrong even in the DVLA records. Will report. Consulting . . .
Hoax or replica? Surely not ... Best Charles01 (talk) 07:43, 22 April 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Disaster. Email took 24 hours to bounce. My reliable informant seems to have died (in Holland) twelve months ago (aged 92!!). I suppose this accounts for his generosity with his many excellent Bentley (and Rolls) photos. Thinking. Eddaido (talk) 07:08, 23 April 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi Pierpao, what was your reason for creating this category? To do this you must know very little about Daimlers. Would you mind if I change it back. Thanks and regards, Eddaido (talk) 09:39, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
QE2 steps from Daimler in well-known to be Italian city
Hello. I do not know daimler vehicles. But if I have to revert my edit I need more than a not very polite criticism. Why are not limousine? Are them sedans? Or what? Thanks.--Pierpao.lo (listening) 10:29, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sorry, it was written when I was more than puzzled at what you had done. Daimler cars were always expensive to very expensive though less so once they became badge-engineered Jaguars. All the big cars were usually limousines but its true you could have them self-drive if you wanted and its true there were 7.1-litre V12 Doctor's coupés etc. Its just downright odd to suddenly shift two models with the same body style as most of the others — part of a continuous flow — out to a separate category like that. Neither were given a model name by (terminally ill) Daimler or Jaguar, just those letters and numbers. I can understand how it appears to a newcomer such as yourself. This may not be sufficient information to placate you. Please let me know what more you would like to know. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:11, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm placated. I do not have any interest in automobiles different than reducing the Commons mess. I do not think they are limousines. I supposed they were. They aren't. Good. But since we have Category:Automobile body styles, with brands subcategories inside, the question is simple :) Which body styles are?--Pierpao.lo (listening) 11:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Daimler limousine - see glass division behind driver - this car belongs to the King of SwedenDaimler saloon no divisionDaimler limousine
Well, here's the WP definition here: Limousine though I have to say the modern usage in USA is so loose it is difficult to follow quite what they think they mean. To me it is simply a vehicle with a (glass) division behind the driver who would usually be an employee, that is to say a chauffeur. The glass maintains the privacy of the passengers. Yes the cars in question above are limousines. What is important is almost every other Daimler except the lowest priced is also a limousine. Do you follow? Just tell me if I am being confusing. Eddaido (talk) 11:57, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The trouble is that you could buy the same car with or without division. It is nothing like so much difference as between an ordinary sedan and a hatchback or a convertible or a station wagon version. Its just that separation of back and front seat passengers. Obviously they are in general only roomy cars, usually with biggish engines.
Can you understand you are asking for something that while it might seem simple to you does not really make sense if you know the rest of the Daimler range. I don't know how better to explain. Do you understand you would have to put almost every other Daimler model in limousines too, whether or not it is actually a limousine? (Its true you could categorise individual images of particular cars - is there value in doing that?) You are creating a subdivision (the category Daimler limousines) which seems right to you but which isn't real unless you put in almost all the other Daimlers.
I find Google Translate excellent. Please write to me in another language if you would prefer to do that. Eddaido (talk) 22:15, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Of course I'll do that but I want to think about it for a day or so. I really do think that stretch limousines are a totally different mode of transport from limousines. Perhaps a separate category should made just for them feeding into (plain) limousines? Or lets be more honest and class them people-carriers. What do you think?
And what do you think the classification should be for this vehicle, the pick-up truck with a permanent hardtop made out of a Lincoln Navigator? Isn't this just another stretch? Best wishes, Eddaido (talk) 08:02, 13 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That sounds to me to be very difficult. I hope it gives you a nice warm feeling to have finished or is there still more to go? I've also done Packard and Rolls-Royce but I have relied on the photographer's captions rather than considering each image as with Daimler and sorting by year of manufacture. I have of course removed obvious errors from Rolls and Packard. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 12:58, 17 May 2017 (UTC) (ps we had an edit clash there!)Reply[reply]
About your questions, I thought for a long time about them but actually I do not know what to say. I'm not a car expert. Moreover, very sincerely, if you need help for pictures digital correction or templates (or italian tax right :)) ot any other kind of matters feel free to ask to me.--Pierpao.lo (listening) 12:53, 17 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Anyway I have almost finished. Only one wiki to go. In Italian wiki we use to discuss everything. First we have a lot o people, good people actualy, not racist and against war and violence bust still fascist and a lot of people comunist and they are all happy to quarrel together continuously about political pages. And a lot of people who try to calm down them, continously too. Second we use to discuss about every single detail or trifle. An american man should say "about every thingummy". Whatherver it means. So, there, you learn very quickly to be resilient. Of course the last wiki is my wiki. I asked 9 days ago. No response. To change an image I have to ask at coordination project and village pump too at least. Apart from that I'm working on stretch limousines.--Pierpao.lo (listening) 19:13, 19 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Maybe WP Italy is not very different from the others! I am sure there will be many future readers of Wikipedia who would thank you for all the work you put in if they knew who you were. Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 23:14, 19 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks a lot. You are very kind. One question please. Laundalets are not limousines? Is it Right? See for instance this edit--Pierpao.lo (listening) 13:39, 24 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I think that is correct. A landau is an open carriage with a roof that folds in two halves, one to the front and one to the back. A landaulette (Italian and English) is half a landau. The back half of the passenger area of the vehicle has a roof which folds down. The French name is landaulet but for us English it is easier to say landaulette. I suppose the idea is to hide away rough things like the driver (as in a limousine) but to be able to be driven along in the open air.
Anyway the openable roof at the back is to my mind the only difference between a landaulette and a limousine, or if you like, a landaulette is a limousine with an opening roof at the very back of the vehicle. (The Maybach 62 S Landaulet is unusual insofar as it packs away the folding roof very tightly into a small tight package). Eddaido (talk) 04:34, 25 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Categories for rare (outdated) automobile body types[edit]
Lancia
Category:Lancia Flaminia 335 Pininfarina Cabriolet Landaulet
I looked at Landaulets and found this handsome vehicle which to my mind has a landaulet section but it is not a cabriolet it just has removable sections in its roof (though maybe they could go in with the spare tyre). Landaulets are rarer than limousines but like limousines they have their own cat. It seems with a few exceptions only individual images are included. The same, I think, for other rare body styles.
Can we not treat limousines in the same way and make stretch limousines a sub-category where editors may place whatever they like that to their mind fits? Real limousines then remain untainted! Eddaido (talk) 01:16, 14 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hmph, I see that's how it is and has been for a while. Lesson for me is to keep up to date. Eddaido (talk) 11:46, 16 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Seriously unurgent. And yet ... when I photographed this I was sure I'd be able to identify it but that way hubris lies and it did. I'm reasonably sure its American from the early 1960s or maybe tail end of the 1950s when the cousins discovered foreward control configurations but before they decided a stumpy nose up front was cheaper to construct and more accessible for the folks at the service stations and anyhow, there's plenty of road space in the USA at least compared to most of Europe or the Pacific rim countries surrounding China.
Don't lose sleep over it. And since the wheels are evidently unoriginal and an artistic Dutchman (I speculate) appears to have drawn a version of sperm on the flank ... is it the Dutch who are obsessed or is it me? Or humanity in general? Probably a digression too far and I apologise. .... Anyhow, unless it's a very rare beast indeed it maybe surplus to wiki-needs. But I still wish I knew what that van was. And I haven't really come across any wikipedia light van experts. That is ... unless you know differently.
Hi Charles, always nice to hear from you. en:Dodge A100 seems to be the answer. There must have been a large business in that territory to turn up two such similar vehicles in the same colours. Mentioning obsessions and thinking of the Dutch approach to these things (the van decorations) when I was very young, a Dutch friend told me his family's story of a great-aunt who was taken rowing on a lake so her swain might propose marriage. He took forever to broach the subject and a rowing boat not providing comfort facilities she held onto things until something inside burst and she was dead within a week. The moral was - for Dutch people - absolutely no holding back on the important basic stuff and I see the door of the notably roomy van as a quite natural extension of this principle. Best, Eddaido (talk) 00:24, 13 August 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Very many thanks. I spent what felt like hours (might have been ten minutes) clicking round GM and Ford but never moved on to Chrysler Corp. Actually it's half a decade more recent than I'd been assuming so I might have missed it even if I had. Anyhow, thanks. And warm congratulations about Eve. As for further musings about Dutch people ... probably better I don't go there. Enjoy Sunday. Except, of course, you're ahead on that game. Well, I hope you have been. Best Charles01 (talk) 04:56, 13 August 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hey boys, for Dutch-registered vehicles I recommend this: ovi.rdw.nl/ - less trustworthy than the DVLA since they seem to take what car owners say at face value, but often enough. Works on Volvo P210s also. Thanks for the anecdote. Cheers, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 06:30, 14 August 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
DVLA is trustworthy for cars purchased new in the UK especially now the data can be communicated electronically from the manufacturers' database. Otherwise, like the Dutch, they just believe what owners tell them. And because the British climate is damp and the city air sulphrous ... anyway, if cars are in good condition from more than 30 years ago it often means they lived their first few decades in Australia or South Africa or the States - the dryer bits. Either way, I guess we're smart enough to spot the more obvious nonsenses - like all those US cars sold when the American soldiers went home for which the bureaucrats simply noted the engine size they were given which was in cubic inches. You get an awful lot of cubic centimeters in a cubic inch and some of those "yank tanks" appear from the resulting data held by DVLA to be extremely underpowered. Thanks again and best wishes Charles01 (talk) 22:06, 14 August 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Pretty clear, I thinkNote "International Harvester"
I am glad to see someone else taking an interest in International trucks, but this category seems confusing and misnamed to boot. They are called AR-series, nothing else to it, and I don't see why we need two categories doing the exact same thing. Best, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 05:11, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Also, the reason IBarncas called one category "R-series pickups" or somesuch was because the R badge was also used on heavier trucks and I was trying to separate the two lines. All per Crismon, the IHC guru, whose giant book has proved invaluable. International Harvester R-Series is for the heavier trucks, and this also allowed all of the lighter-duty vehicles to be in the International Harvester pickup trucks category. As for the D-series, the earlier somewhat cumbersome name was to avoid confusion with the 1960's D-series.
Notice the board: "International AL-130 series"
edit clash
Seen your name around! Thanks for the reaction, everything had seemed dead. They are officially R Line trucks. Did you work for IHC in Australia? Cheers Eddaido (talk)
Who is Crismon? If you can wait a month or two I believe I have answers to everything but it is a monster job. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 05:19, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Is there anything in Wikipedia about IHC Australia? Eddaido (talk) 05:21, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Is it really necessary to begin dropping the "Harvester" name? You've managed to fit the IHC Roadster model F into the "International automobiles" page even though the picture and title include Harvester (or H) repeatedly. I feel like you are creating a lot of work for yourself, and making the organization worse. What determines whether something is an IH or an International vehicle? Is there any reason for dividing IHC's products into two branches?
Two branches?
Why are you calling the various IHC vehicles just International instead of International Harvester? Do you intend for there to be one category of International vehicles and one category of International Harvester vehicles or do you plan on renaming every single entry? I don't see the benefit at all. Both names are equally correct and changing it brings untold stress and confusion in return for no apparent benefit. The naming here should be correct, but the main function of the categories is to make the images findable. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 13:39, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This is about the name only: I have discussed this with Eddaido, then posted "Trucks built by International Harvester (and Navistar) are branded "International". This is true from the 1908 "International Gasoline Auto Buggies" [4] until the present[5]. I think Eddaido uses this as a reason for name changing, and I support him on this. I am from the US and do not know Australian trucks. Sammy D III (talk) 14:35, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The trucks were called AR, see the picture. IH Australia used this naming system for decades, and it also makes it abundantly clear which R line is which. Series or Line is really of no importance, but you're right, "Line" is used almost exclusively by Frederick W. Crismon who wrote a giant tome about IHC trucks (with full support from Navistar corporate archives and technical center). I can provide you scans of pages about the AR line if IHC Australia's own badging isn't enough. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 05:36, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The naming process has been done before by people who know the clashes the casual (WM current)names create. Once I have sorted it all out the Aussie trucks can go back down to AR110 can't they, and scrub the "series". Glad you took a glimpse at Crismon (who I don't know). In my youth I would take our shiny AL110 to the (distant) gate for the newspaper, it Adored petrol. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 05:47, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I don't understand the meaning of this sentence: The naming process has been done before by people who know the clashes the casual (WM current)names create. Could you reword it please? Also, why recategorize the AR trucks if you're just going to have to recategorize them again? mr.choppers (talk)-en- 13:39, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You are also wrecking the category for IH pickups - the R line entries were broken up into pickups and heavier trucks. Read BRD, stop calling the AL trucks the L-line and think a bit first. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 13:44, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You are being very foolish. Please see your own talk page.
Eddaido (talk) 13:49, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
From my talk page (please keep the conversation here):
It is a big job that will take many weeks if not months. Your concerns are noted. A very large volume of images is being handled in bulk. They can Very Easily be bulk moved to lower level categories after the main switches are over. Please think about the problems you are causing. Thanks for all your efforts. Eddaido (talk) 13:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please discuss this calmly
Eddaido (talk) 13:48, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
My concerns are not being noted. You haven't even responded to the majority of my questions. Lots of work went in to organizing the L and R series trucks into light and heavier duty versions; all of this has been undone by you and most certainly cannot be fixed by a bot. Read BRD and take a pause before you undo more work. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 13:51, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please calm down and read what I have written to you on your own talk page in response to your actions. You have had a great deal of notice of my intention, why try to bugger it up now it is going through? Eddaido (talk) 13:55, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You have not responded to any of my questions. Your response says "I know what I'm doing, so bugger off," which is not exactly helpful or illuminating. Why call it an L when its called the AL? What's wrong with you? I started a report here, please stop destroying more things until there is a) some sort of consensus and b) a clarification of what exactly it is you are trying to accomplish. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 14:01, 13 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'll start posting short notes here, you don't have to answer unless you have questions.
In 1907 Auto Wagon in the US we would use pounds. The 1907 info layout is different from the others. That is the first year, they might not of thought of trucks as a separate line yet? They were just one more piece of machinery until sales took off? My guess only.
We would break at 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc., X/5 wouldn't be used.
Yes, that's how the information is provided. I was aiming to make sizes comparable throughout the range. How about using both guides, I mean 800 lbs and two-fifths of a ton. I was sticking with tons because, though I know they are actually different, tons or tonnes are still recognised by everyone. Until you reminded me I had forgotten about short and long tons. Where we agree to stick with tons should there be a note they are short tons and if so what is the standard abbreviation for short? I see there has been a further burst of reverting. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 23:03, 15 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I really hate US/UK English on articles, but I'm not editing an article, sooo...
The US has "tons" that weigh 2,000 pounds. The word "short" is never used. We only have one ton until you get to ships. Converts don't do that, they put in "short", so I convert ton to kg. manually.
The UK had "short" and "long" tons and I don't think they use either anymore. A "tonne" is a metric ton. It is close to but not exactly a US ton. They use "tonne" in the EU too, but maybe that is only in English versions of trucking regulations (they are multi-lingual).
If it is just the three 1907 models do you want to footnote just them somehow? Fifths look wrong to me, but my POV is strange and I'm not editing anything. Sammy D III (talk) 00:30, 16 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You should not anticipate the result of a category discussion![edit]
I understand from your "discussion" with Mr.choppers that you're eager to change all "International Harvester" reference into "International" only. But as long as the discussion about merging or not the International Harvester and the International categories is not closed, can you please leave the pre-1986 vehicles in the corresponding International Harvester categories? Same thing for the documents about vehicles from that period that you could add in Commons. The file "1916 International Model H milk truck.png", for example, should be categorized as "1917 International Harvester truck" as long as the "International Harvester trucks" category exists... Commons is not yours, you should not make such important changes before any consensus has been reached. Thanks in advance. BarnCas (talk) 04:04, 17 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Twenty-four hours back I wrote a long and friendly response to this. However it is my firm preference to dodge smaller issues so I held back and have now scrapped it. My response now is, noted. Eddaido (talk) 06:07, 18 September 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Unfortunately I am not a car affictionado, all I could do is ID stuff based on descriptions visible in the photos. Sooner or later someone will ID it. I'd suggest posting to English Wikipedia's WikiProject Cars, it is very active and I expect some members will jump on this task very quickly. (Do ping me on Eng wiki if you post there, I'll second this idea :D) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul PiotrusTalk 08:56, 22 October 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hehe I understand this well. But surely you are not the only person tagging unidentified vehicles. If it is no longer fun, take a break, mate. And I am pretty sure WikiProject Cars has at least several active people, someone may help if you ask. I really don't know much about the cars, the only thing I can do is to read what is in the description plaque if there is one. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul PiotrusTalk 04:32, 24 October 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Dude, why do you want me to do this? I don't want to and I don't care. If you don't want to and don't care, don't do it, but don't tell others they should do it. We all as much or as little here as we find fun. I currently don't feel like working on those images, I have others to tag. Cars have a ton of fans (compared to some other topics) so I think they will get tagged sooner then some other obscure museum stuff (for example) I feel like working on instead. Again: if you don't want to work on those images, don't. But don't tell me do it. You are not my boss. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul PiotrusTalk 05:06, 24 October 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello Eddaido, do you are interested in more pictures of Delage cars? I think I have some - not all are identified. Regards --Buch-t (talk) 09:34, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, that would be great even if we know nothing about them — but if you can't identify them who can? Eddaido (talk) 10:10, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am not expert for Delage. I need your help. I will search and load the pictures in the next days and weeks. Perhaps 50 pictures. --Buch-t (talk) 10:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks. I wish us every success with the identifications! Eddaido (talk) 20:41, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Why not just load your new images into category:Delage automobiles and then we can work on from there? Eddaido (talk) 23:30, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Now I have loaded 85 pictures. Most of the cars are identified, according to the descriptions in the museums or events.
Thank you very much indeed for giving Wikimedia those 85 pictures. You must be a true enthusiast to have so many in your keeping. Have you noticed it makes things simpler if the first word of the file name is the year of manufacture?
I am very happy to insert the hyphen but I can find no original Delage documentation of that period which shows it. Can you find any? I must say that I simply followed that website but when it had internal conflicts I did make some elections. I notice you've changed the one that concerns you. Can you find the documentation?
We have other things to be discussed. I can't do that right now. Those are 85 very nice photos! regards, Eddaido (talk) 01:21, 26 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, I have made lots of pictures.
I have loaded nearly 3747 pictures. All with the same system: Make, often model, sometimes body, sometimes coachbuilder, year. Have a look at User:Buch-t or Category:User:Buch-t. I cannot change my system.
I have the book about Delage. And also Automobilia Hors Série, Toutes les voitures Francaises for every year 1920 to 1983 (see here). In most cases with hyphen (D8-120), sometimes space (D8 120) or dot (D8.120), rare slash (D8/120), never without anything (D8120).
Perhaps we should make the different categories of Delage D8... to subpages of Delage D8. I am not sure in the moment. Also D6... --Buch-t (talk) 10:55, 26 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If the file name leads off with the year then they are sorted that way. Otherwise to get a good sort when there are many images of a particular model I have to go through and add a special sort key, a slow job. That's why I mentioned it.
About the model names. You can see the problem. I usually try to use the manufacturer's own system, which (so far as I could find any) used dots, as in D.8. I'm afraid Wikipedia does set the style (the styles found by Google) for these things (dots, slashes etc). If we use the manufacturer's own system no-one can attack us for doing that. [6][7][8][9]You'll like this onePostwar[10][11][12]
I would be very much against sub-pages for the D8 variants because it buries those models even deeper in the awful muddle of Wikimedia automobiles (which you and I are right now working to relieve)
Will have a further hunt for original Delage brochures etc as soon as I can but that may be 24 hours away. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 12:31, 26 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I found some French advertising in Hors Série.
For model year 1934, page 32: D8.15 Normal, D8.15 Long, D8.15 Sport
For model year 1936, page 29: Delage. La belle voiture francaise. DI.12 and D6.60 and D6.80 and D8.100
For model year 1937, page 31: La D6-70 Delage, Vainqueur de la Coupe des Dames au rallye du Maroc.
For model year 1938, page 38: La D6.70 a fait ses preuves web --Buch-t (talk) 13:41, 26 November 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for that info. I've done quite a lot more research, thought about Delage's own inconsistencies and now produce for you this suggestion. Would you be comfortable if we ignored all dots and hyphens or slashes replacing them with spaces? So far as I can see the category names would then remain the same except:
Sorry for delay. I am not active on weekdays. Only weekends (Europe time).
I think that according to most of the original French advertisings of Delage the dot is the best choice, the hyphen the second-best choice and the space is only acceptable. Not acceptable are slash and nothing. D6.11, D6.60, D6.70, the following D6.75, D8.15, D8.100, D8.105 and D8.120.
Not sure about D8.120S or D8.120 S (without or with space before the S). Do you find anything?
What is with D6 3L? L for litre, I think. Also with dot or hyphen? 3L or 3-Litre or 3-litre or 3 Litre or 3 litre? --Buch-t (talk) 08:16, 2 December 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No problem. OK its a dot. Only thing I can find about DB.120S is here (last page) where no distinction is made - or did the distinctive name come later? Do you think D6 3 Litre would be best? What would our French friends think? I have put up a current draft on the Category:Delage automobiles discussion page - please amend them to suit you and we'll move on from there. Eddaido (talk) 10:28, 2 December 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Thanks for noticing so quickly that I've been at it again. Since you are at the keyboard, there are a couple that I am uneasily aware I have not made a very complete job of identifying. They ... um ... look like this (plus the Morris you already spotted). Indeed, I maybe plain wrong... If you have a moment to apply your expertise on the ticklish business of identification, I would be >grateful. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 21:06, 1 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wish I'd known you'd put this here. I've tidied up some of the Wolseley links but aren't you perfectly correct with both images? Not wanting to be a nuisance I've been puzzling over possible German translations of en:stage stations or staging posts or whatever and is it right to assume postkutsche includes what we would classify as a stagecoach or is there another German word that fits better? Highest regards, Eddaido (talk) 06:03, 4 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I would think Postkutsche does the business. They were post carriages carrying the passengers and mail from the rail heads to the remoter small towns and villages along the valleys. In Switzerland and Austria, where public transport is integrated into a coherent network, the Postbus service continues to provide the same service, but the buses are bigger. I guess stage coach is indeed the english language equivalent though the times lines are different because the English got a railway network and most of them migrated away from the countryside half a century or more earlier than folks in most of the rest of Europe. And I think in most districts the British rail network was denser - till around 1961 - than it ever became elsewhere in the rural parts of Europe. So "stage coach" feels more old fashioned (and thereby more romantic - or is that just because of the Victorian novels?) than Postkuche. But yes, I think they performed much the same function.
Thanks for auditing/enhancing the "categories" for these pictures. I was desperately keen not to go to bed till I'd finished sorting out the pictures I'd taken at the old timer show that day - nearly didn't happen thanks to the weather. But I should have gone to bed two hours earlier and finished them off in the morning. As indeed I did, when I got back in the morning and saw what I'd done the day before. Ho hum. Best Charles01 (talk) 11:33, 4 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Only about 2 inches clearance under the diff so its a puzzling choice in view of the next car
There are a lot of lovely pictures in the category created for this oldtimer rally in Kolkata in 2016. This one might appeal to you - as a worthy candidate for categorisation, even? I've just added a picture of an Adler from this collection to an entry I appear to have done (well ... translated) a few years back and attempted an "improvement" in the categorisatioon along the way, though I usually avoid involving myself in categorising pictures 'cos folks get so ... passionate about it. One warning - these ones seem to use an awful lot of MB. I'm not sufficiently tech literate to know if one could reduce the number of MB without visibly reducing the quality. Charles01 (talk) 14:51, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Indeed, you are so right, but it is an embarrassment of riches. So many pictures of the same object I have categorised those in my area of interest and left the others to the uploader and anyone else interested enough. Here are some of the set you mention used on this page Daimler Fifteen. This page gives an idea of the sheer volume available. I don't think I've been through the 2017 collection (and 2018 is due), will do it now and come back. Eddaido (talk) 22:13, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Big boulders on the roads there?
Yes, I did find some new things. So many of the subjects have been photographed and categorised in previous years. It was particularly good to find a 1948 Hillman Minx, worth the trawl by itself. Thanks Eddaido (talk) 23:27, 5 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Definitely one for dipping in and out of rather than attempting to surf the lot in one go. Especially given the speed (absence of) at which our world war II telephone wires deliver these big images down the line Charles01 (talk) 10:23, 6 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
What stirring messages—Captain Mainwaring? are you there?— the lines might divulge to future presidential inquisitionists, no stone unturned. I thought Britain was way beyond copper and for all I know beyond fibre , which I don't have but the neighbours tell me its no faster when it matters because everyone else is sorting out Their planned viewing etc. Uploading has to be a labour of love doesn't it. Eddaido (talk) 01:03, 8 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Lima is in Peru bul is also a river in Portugal. There is a museum named "Geraz do Lima Carriage Museum" in Portugal, near Lima River. Thanks Joseolgon (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OOPS very sorry about that! There are beautiful carriages in that museum's images, do you think they are adequately categorised as they are now? Another editor had added buses and I'm not certain that is correct. What is your judgement? Thanks for fixing my mistake, Eddaido (talk) 22:07, 18 April 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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I uploaded a couple of pictures yesterday without being quite sure what they were of. Well ... one is of a Vauxhall and the other is of a Riley, but .... They're not particularly wonderful pictures, but the shapes of the cars looked sufficiently unusual for them to be worth uploading anyway. In case .....
and maybe.
If you have a moment and the urge and, perhaps even more important, access to and knowledge of relevant information, I would be >grateful if you could tell me what these pictures are of.
Greetings Charles01, you have risen early again and I have run out of time! Presently working my way through a few days backlog and getting back into the spirit of things. I need to apologise for delaying this response until after I had an answer (and then acting on it without consulting you for which I'm sorry too) and then getting distracted before coming back here. They are very good photos, I wish more of Commons approached the Charles01 standard. I think the Vauxhall is without doubt a Cadet. Wasn't there a time when DVLA or its predecessor deleted all engine capacity records? I wouldn't worry about the small discrepancy in the engine size.
A Riley is always fun. Thank heavens it is registered with a recorded engine capacity so we can be sure its a one and a half litre. Updated that one (x2 !) as you have noticed. Those Vauxhalls were handsome cars, the Riley saloons a great deal less so and I think they were very lightly built. I used to walk past a Riley of that vintage (still in use) on my way to work and its fabric body was always getting new tears (naughty children?) and bits of timber seemed to be loose. Remarkable so many survived. Good to hear from you, Eddaido (talk) 08:22, 5 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Very many thanks. I never heard of a Vauxhall Cadet so shall look it up. There was certainly an Opel Kadett that appeared a few years later.
I think that with the dvla, errors most frequently occur with cars that are imported having first been registered somewhere other than the UK. Under those circumstances, at least in the past, the data keepers simply wrote down what they were told by the importer/keeper of the car. I don't think in the UK car tax was ever levied according to overall engine capacity - it was just something to do with the diameter (?as far as I recall) of the cylinders. So no incentive to get it right ever, unless you take a pride in your job .... which in Britain some do and some don't .... And of course with every generation you get simple data capture issues when bits are copied in a hurry from scribbled notes or type-scripts from ancient Imperials with chipped letters and fading ribbons.
Thanks for correcting the Riley name. It's only since someone - possibly you - rearranged the commons categories covering Rileys from the 1920s/30s that I realised how many different body shapes existed. Always fun, you write? Well, maybe: maybe not.
Cars seem sometimes to get a slightly parched-skin look in NZ after a few decades, but they nevertheless seem to last for a very long time. At least a lot do. Happy climate.
I think I've made a mistake with that Riley, I think my first choice was more likely to be accurate. Currently working my way through some contemporary info to see if I can get it clear.
DVLA. What mattered was the hp rating not cc and that would have come from a list on the desk beside the (dvla) agent?
Are you thinking of a particular car with a parched look? They used to have different formulations of film for different countries but its long past "film" now and I can still pretty well immediately recognise NZ shots from others in a whole Commons screenful of images. It surely has to be something about the tones of the colours in the country which maybe links back to what you say? Do you have a lighting truck shadowing you on your photography expeditions, so often you seem to have full sunlight. Only joking about the truck but you do seem to find good conditions. Eddaido (talk) 05:44, 6 July 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm afraid splitting this cat into dates is a form of (benign) vandalism (all the files have disappeared from view and are to all intent now invisible) and its been discussed at length in the (Village pump/teahouse), please copy all these images into the main cat "History of Wellington", many thanks in advance. Broichmore (talk) 13:40, 1 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
(edit clash) What on earth are you talking about! Eddaido (talk) 13:43, 1 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OK but What are you talking about! Eddaido (talk) 12:23, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
(no reply) Let me put this another way. Why are you telling Me about this. Eddaido (talk) 12:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please read the link I gave you. Then the mystery will be cleared up for you... Broichmore (talk) 12:33, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
No! I am asking how I am at fault! Eddaido (talk) 12:34, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I'm not saying your at fault, I'm saying that your splitting up of all these files into multiple categories is unhelpful, and pointless. Your the one who has (unwittingly perhaps) hidden multiple files away from view. Broichmore (talk) 12:41, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
The files in Category: History of Wellington. Broichmore (talk) 12:44, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
OK, I'll go have a look and return. Eddaido (talk) 12:45, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Are you talking about Wellington by year? Eddaido (talk) 12:46, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sorry, I can't hang about any longer. Eddaido (talk) 12:49, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, what else? In that folder you have split by year and by decade. Between 1839 and 2003 an average of 2-3 files per folder, oft times 1! Broichmore (talk) 12:59, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
1. What else? There is a lot of other stuff on Commons!
2. Why was it so difficult to tell me this was your problem?
3. All I did was use a template set up long before. The same template is used in a number of other places. If the template is faulty or has recently been made faulty I am sorry about that. It wasn't when I used it which is now some time ago. Perhaps in due course it will be fixed. Eddaido (talk) 22:02, 6 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
There is no such template, and never has been. I agree there is somewhat of a grey area in policy, on the matter. Difussion of categories is touched on and frowned upon, and advised against; but not actually prohibited. I have looked in the cats we are talking about and you have created nearly all of them, a year ago; certainly, all the ones with between 1 to 5 images. See example: Category:1964_in_Wellington This over-diffusion of categories has spread like some destructive virus throughout the project. Have you read the Tea House link (I gave you) on this? If I want to see the 300 or so historical images about Wellington, I now need to open 138 folders and counting, to see them. This is obviously counter productive. Broichmore (talk) 12:21, 7 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am so sorry you feel this way. I am afraid I find it impossible to understand your problem(s) Eddaido (talk) 09:45, 8 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I despair, If I cant persuade you of all people, of the detrimental effects of the over-difussion of cats; or persuade you to read https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2018/08#Overdiffused_categories. Then there is no hope for the project. The people who usually do this kind of thing are not like you , who take the trouble to write articles and actually research them. They are just unwitting filers looking to make up big easy scores for kudos. There might be some use in breaking out detail views and/or interior views, but this diffusing breakdown by year is a liability. Broichmore (talk) 09:40, 9 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hi Hedwig, the best I can do at the moment is a 1952 Cadillac convertible maybe series 62 very like this one except for the panels below each headlight. Those panels might mean something important or maybe not! I am indeed honoured to be asked. I'm going looking for a Cadillac expert
Down this end of Polynesia the greeting is different. Aloha does get used, a lot but slightly differently, and also spelled and pronounced aroha. Here's a little song about it (love, admiration, thanks, kindness). About the video. You must understand it can be very boring in the supermarkets of very small towns<grin>. look on page 22, this makes me quite comfortable it is a 1952 series 62. Mihi mo inaianei, Eddaido (talk) 10:21, 18 October 2018 (UTC) (apologies for lecture and video! and that last bit apparently means 'bye for now) Nice to hear from you.Reply[reply]
I can be a bit rough around the edges sometimes. Nothing to worry about. Anyway, I added two categories (52 Cadillac, C. convertible). I'll have a peek at your videos later. Been sitting in lecture halls for a long time, no problem ;)) --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 22:09, 18 October 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
"the Opel Kadett 1939: the latter's moulds were sent to Russia, as part of Germany's war reparations in favor of the USSR. This was the first Russian car sold in Belgium". Eddaido (talk) 12:02, 5 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Eddaido the marvelous strikes again! :) Thanks a lot.--Pierpao.lo (listening) 14:12, 5 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ah, but you are too kind. Every bit gave and gives me much pleasure. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 20:04, 5 November 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Oh, there are lots of copyright images on that site all with CC-BY. I have added him to the Bad Flickr list. Do you remember if you got any other images from that Flickr site? Ronhjones (Talk) 01:39, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Sorry about this, have marked this file speedy delete and am rushing out. Will check on my return. Thanks for heads up, Eddaido (talk) 01:42, 12 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Do you know any way that one can tell by looking at it whether this is a Silver Cloud I or a Silver Cloud II? Wikipedia says it's the difference between a nice smooth 6-cylinder engine and a US-inspired V8 - less smooth but more ooomph according to the purists who are well represented in the "literature" - which is fine except in this picture the hood/bonnet is resolutely shut.
I was nonplussed to see that someone has used the picture to head up the category page on wiki-commons for the Rolls Royce Phantom V. But then I realised I didn't know what generation of Cloud it was, and one hesitates to impose improvements on learned wiki-comrades (and the other lot) without being fully aware of what one is talking/writing about. (Also there doesn't seem to be any real showstopper shot of a Phantom V till now)
Thanks in anticipation for any thoughts shared. Regards Charles01 (talk) 10:48, 21 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
So I went here and discovered the S2 is ¼ inch shorter and ¼ inch wider. Wouldn't this have to be trim? Or maybe they changed the bumpers or shortened the exhaust pipe for the new engine and increased the swage around the wheel openings? In the same source there is a detailed list of production modifications. Ah, here it is — go to page 22. The door handles were modified late in the run of the 6-cylinder, did that add ¼ inch to the overall width? The only real difference aside from the engine is the car's weight: S1 2032kgs, S2 2108kgs. Tyres and wheels have the same specs, I wonder if the V8 cars have slightly flatter bottoms to their tyres??! The only thing I can suggest is registration date knowing the V8 began delivery in August 1959 - but how many 6-cylinder cars hung about in showrooms? I am defeated! Best, Eddaido (talk) 11:57, 21 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Maybe that takes us in the helpful direction. Thanks. Your talk of width set me wondering about wing mirrors/door mirrors. Are they part of the quoted width or no? Then I looked to see if maybe Cloud I had wing mirrors and Cloud II door mirrors, but looking at the pix on commons I suspect (1) it depended on the local market requirements and / or (2) both I and II are sometimes fitted with wing mirrors originally. So presumably there is scope for door mirrors having been retrofitted in their stead in both cases. Don't think this is going anywhere just now. Best Charles01 (talk) 12:13, 21 December 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Is this the correct bit of car?
Hallo Eddaido and Charles01, imho the car is a Silver Cloud I. Early examples didn't get position lights at the leading edge of the front fenders. I am not sure if that is true for all Cloud I, as there are at least two different styles of this lights. The earlier is round with a white lens, and the younger is oval with an amber and clear lens. At least I guess this is the younger one, as it looks more modern, and a similar style can be found also on the Cloud III. So, even if there are Cloud I and II with such lights, the complete lack of them indicates imho an earlier Cloud I. Although I was told that there are further differences between Cloud I and II in the front fender lines and the horn doors, but I wasn't able to identfy these differences yet. I hope this is useful to you, although your discussion dates back some time. --Chief tin cloud (talk) 20:27, 14 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You're good CTC! You're Very good. But I'm not sure I've found the right part of the car. I have managed to find a photo, I think, but to get it clear, are you referring to the red insert in the top of the chrome bezel of the sidelight? Photo alongside of 1956 car without one. Eddaido (talk) 22:15, 14 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Fine that you can't see me getting slightly reddish. Thank you for the compliment, but in fact I didn't mean the light on the top of the fender but the larger on the leading edge. It looked OK yesterday, when I checked that, but today when I looked it over again, I found that most of the cars don't have it. Anyway, I made a little gallery of the styles I found. I'm sure I saw a Cloud II with the Cloud III style (plus the fender top lampsd!) yesterday, but couldn't find the picture anymore.--Chief tin cloud (talk) 21:11, 15 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I (1956) - no lights on leading edge of fender
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I (1959) - a very late Cloud I without the lights
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I or II (undated) - round, white lights on leading edge of fender
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II (undated) - round, white lights on leading edge of fender
Coachbuilt Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud (undated) - round, white lights on leading edge of fender
Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III (1963) without the light on top; instead amber position/direction light at the leading edge.
Aha, now I understand. You mean the direction indicators and I apologise because that's really what you said. I think the car must have come out about the moment that the semaphore arms on the B pillar were made obsolete. What happened was the direction indicators were the (apparent driving) lights right behind the front bumper mounted (I think) on the apron between bumper and car. Great big things. The very small white lights in the third picture are an anomaly possibly installed to fit the requirement of a particular country? The amber direction indicators were just when R-R felt obliged to fit in with everyone else. I once knew some people who got a new (company) chauffeur and the wife said he was scary because he was previously employed by the owner of a particularly big Rolls-Royce and he expected other cars to give way to him (maybe this was a long time ago). Maybe those enormous flashing indicators were intended to act as a semi-imperial command! Out of the Way! But I think that it might be right about the little red bump in the top of the sidelights because they also help by providing a way to guesstimate where the furthest edge of the car is. Perhaps provided when drivers complained of the difficulty in gauging whether or not you might miss an obstacle when manoeuvring in a confined space. 690 AVB 75, first pic, has these little red inserts. I wonder what Charles01 thinks. Eddaido (talk) 21:30, 15 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Picture 5 has no sidelights on the top and I guess they were moved to the leading edge as part of the designer's scheme - the creased mudguards. The last picture is interesting because in the 1950s Rolls cars usually had cloudy clear glass over red (or in this case amber) lights so that unless the bulb was on there was no clash with the colour of the car's finish, or, maybe they thought it made their cars look more expensive? I'd put down the small lights in the leading edge and the amber colour to the writers of regulations. There was a time when all headlights in France had to be a very nasty yellow. Eddaido (talk) 21:44, 15 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Charles01 is pretty confused.
* Did you notice that the car on the right, with a Dutch license plate, also has the steering wheel on the right? So presumably it wasn't originally registered in the Netherlands. "Fender" is a word I tend to avoid, because I don't think it's commonplace in British-English and when English speakers use it in order to be polite to Americans there is no guarantee that we mean the same thing. But the orange-coloured indicators on the front edge of the ... wing? ... came in, I think, with the twin headlights and denote the Cloud III (or the Bentley SIII in Bentley-speak). Orange-coloured indicators seem to have become mandatory (or at least universal) in the UK in early 1960s.
* The car next to it - one in from the right (nbr 5 from left) - is a special body version so doesn't tell us the difference between a Cloud I and a Cloud II with a standard body. Pretty car, though.
* The round white lights on the front of the front wings of the cars you position at 3rd and 4th in the row might indeed indicate later Cloud II (as opposed to Cloud I or earlier "semaphore equipped" Cloud II). From what I remember of cars one saw in England in/from the late 50s and very early 60s these are likely to be indicators which at that stage were still normally white at the front (US-style). The same may very well have applied in France. The tiny lights on the tops of the front wings I think in England we would have called side-lights. They were a regulatory requirement and I guess if a headlight bulb went a keen eyed observer after dark might nevertheless be able to determine from the side lights that he/she was being pursued by a car rather than a motorbike. (I also heard those side-lights called parking lights.) It might be possible to go through the Cloud and Bentley S pix on commons and pull out the British license plates. From those license plates you can tell when (the owner told the UK licensing authorities) the cars were built (here). From that, by seeing whether the later ones indeed had those round white indicator lamps and the older ones didn't (and bearing in mind the scope for the UK tax authorities getting build years wrong from time to time. Also, the UK tax office tells you the engine size, and (wikipedia says) the Cloud II had the 6,230cc engine whereas the Cloud I had the smaller 6 cylinder unit. Again, there's plenty of scope, half a century later, for people retrofitting bigger engines and there's plenty of scope for engine sizes being wrongly recorded by the authorities. So I don't think we'll find a perfect correlation between anything and anything. But there may well be enough to determine whether (or not) those round white indicators on the front denote a Cloud II / Bentley SII. Or at least a later one. I'm not exactly volunteering, but I guess I might get round to it one day ....
I've a nasty feeling the foregoing may appear a bit muddled. But it accurately reflects where I've got to with this, and you did make the mistake(?) of wondering what I thought. Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 20:25, 16 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Charles01, I might be excused by the fact that I am Swiss and of (kind of!) German language. Maybe, I tend too much to use American terms as "my" field of occupation are early American and French cars. I write from time to time on British cars. too. F.e. I did the pieces about the de:Atalanta Motors and and the de:Marendaz for the German Wikipedia. I agree to your conclusion (no, it is not muddled), and will look further, too.--Chief tin cloud (talk) 20:02, 17 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I have the dinkum oil as they can say here(abouts). There is no external difference. On the dashboard (instrument panel) the last of the Is and all the IIs have a bakelite air vent at each end, by each door. The Is began with a sort of paddle timer/direction indicator lever on the dashboard (instrument panel) and my informant said the IIs had a (now conventional) lever sprouting from the steering column. No Cloud had semaphore arms for signals. All began with the same sidelights (I mean left the factory with . . . ). Mind you, we were so Commonwealth synchronised a UK spec car would be delivered here unchanged. At that time (1955) and decades later if you were a British subject you just walked into our country and chose a place to live. Same with British if not Australian or Canadian sourced car(s) you brought with you, well British anyway, I know, I did it. Cheers, Eddaido (talk) 09:22, 21 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Michael Barera:
Hey, why this war about the category on "Bentley 3-Litre in the ZeitHaus"? It seems to me, the correct category is Bentley 1924. --Io Herodotus (talk) 16:43, 20 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, it is a 1924, and the category on the car itself should be categorized as such, not the individual images. "Bentley 3-Litre in the ZeitHaus" is one car, a 1924 Bentley, so the category should be in the 1924 category, not all the individual images. Perhaps it would make it more clear if we changed the category name to "1924 Bentley 3-Litre in the ZeitHaus"? Michael Barera (talk) 16:48, 20 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Simply because you revert several times; a solution has to be found. Is it not the right place for that ?
If you agree with the answer, just delete this post. --Io Herodotus (talk) 08:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I do not understand. Perhaps you could write in your mother tongue and I can use Google translate? Eddaido (talk) 08:04, 21 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Category: Bentley 3-Litre in the ZeitHaus : Historique des versions
actudiff 20 avril 2019 à 15:56 Michael Barera discussion contributions m 165 octets +38 added Category:1924 Bentley automobiles : HotCat, PHP7
actudiff 19 avril 2019 à 02:58 Eddaido discussion contributions m 127 octets -38 removed Category:1924 Bentley automobiles : HotCat
actudiff 19 avril 2019 à 00:30 Michael Barera discussion contributions m 165 octets +38 added Category:1924 Bentley automobiles : HotCat, PHP7
actudiff 17 avril 2019 à 11:13 Eddaido discussion contributions m 127 octets -38 removed Category:1924 Bentley automobiles : HotCat
actudiff 25 septembre 2018 à 12:04 Io Herodotus discussion contributions m 165 octets +8 removed Category:1924 automobiles; added Category:1924 Bentley automobiles : HotCat
in my mother tongue ok : "prière de ne pas faire de guerre d'édition"
See also "An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page—whether involving the same or different material—within a 24-hour period."
I do have the understanding you believe I have done something wrong. I do not understand what you say. Would you please spell it out. Eddaido (talk) 09:29, 21 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Never mind, Michael Barera understood what I meant and he made the right modification. I stop on that. --Io Herodotus (talk) 12:15, 21 April 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Some idiot robot has recategorised a couple of pictures I uploaded yesterday to what I sm sure is the wrong category. Given that I've got the build year and the engine size included in the file name, you may be a more reliable (and quicker) person than I am to put them in the right category. But only if you have time. And if you did, thank you.
(And if you think I used the wrong lens, the more I look at the picture the more I am inclined to agree. Mea culpa. But everyone else does it too.....)
Fixed. Thank you Charles, that's (of course!) a great photo thank you most kindly and sincerely too for finding the subject. As hen's teeth we say over here. What is this "File information: Structured data"? Do you know? Best, Eddaido (talk) 09:52, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Very many thanks. I see we were in discussion over a similar car a mere eight years ago. Not sure what happened to the intervening time. I've not figured out what the structured data thing is about, no. Maybe if I read more and wrote less (and didn't attend two major classic car shows in a single month - but one takes the opportunities where they arise: one of the two was even pleasingly sunny!) I'd take time to keep up to speed with such things. Presumably wiser folk than we have figured it's a good idea to do whatever it is that it does? Meantime, I just make an attempt to click as and when instructed by the "Upload Wizard". Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 14:18, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
And another thing. I'm not at all sure I got this one right. It maybe needs a new not yet extant category? Totally unurgent, but if you do have any insights to share as and when, that would be helpful. Thanks again. Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:18, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
1937 Minx Magnificent dhc
Charles01 you are teasing me! And in about another half hour I'll be too old to notice, much. Of course its a Minx Magnificent. None of this Wizard stuff. I think it might have recently been beyond recall or thought to have been. The trim at the top of the radiator grille isn't quite right and the semaphore arms have been welded over, the slots anyway. Compare and contrast this later car with a different grille. Thanks for showing it to me. Eddaido (talk) 11:33, 31 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Well, of course if the trim on the radiator grille had been quite right and the flippers hadn't been welded over I'd have known it at once. Not. (And the hood looks a bit recent, but maybe that's just me.) And very many thanks. Best wishes. Charles01 (talk) 13:27, 31 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Are there any other details you can tell me about this model car? Facebook group identified it as a 1941 Studebaker Commander. Can you supply other details?
Ping me or respond my page so I get a notification.Thanks! RAN (talk) 17:29, 29 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Coupe, not sedan, with a few of Studebaker's large range of bolt-on extras
@RAN: A 1941 model seems correct. But, I'm pretty sure it says Champion and not Commander President on the car's nose. You too can count the number of letters in the name. A quick Google produces this picture:
I think it might be a Cadillac (not Ford) model F, Chief Tin Cloud knows these things in a way I don't. I think the Brewster is named and categorised by Mr C completely accurately except for the date of manufacture. I see by the article that the factory's machinery was all sold up in 1937. If we can't find a credible date the only safe solution is to give it no date at all! Regards.
By the way, the apparent solution to my "items buried deep in rabbit burrows" problem is not always reliable and in practice needs modifications to make it useful. I will try to talk to its developer as soon as I can. I'm a natural optimist. Eddaido (talk) 20:54, 17 November 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Volvo
I'll ask Tin Cloud. There were some post-bankruptcy Brewsters: "Brewster went out of business in 1936, and in 1937, John S. Inskip, a former Brewster vice-president of sales, purchased the remains of the company. Inskip’s new company continued to sell automobiles and bodies it built." Here too. Thanks. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 14:21, 21 November 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I just emailed the Early Ford Registry and it is confirmed to be a 1905 Ford Model F. They know the owner, of course. Best, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 15:05, 21 November 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Did they provide an explanation for the strange appearance of the Ford? Its worth recording it on the - is it called metadata? Eddaido (talk) 21:11, 21 November 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That Brewster "Rolls-Royce" must have holidayed in Sweden and left a pup! Eddaido (talk) 01:42, 22 November 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Bonsoir et désolé mais je ne comprends et n'écris correctement que le français. Pour la définition du landau je m'en tiens à celle de Wikipedia France qui n'a pas l'air de beaucoup différer de la version en langue anglaise et qui me semble ne pas être compatible avec l'existence de cinq glaces pour un landau. Mais cela n'est pas bien grave. Cordialement.Finoskov (talk) 23:20, 13 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Merci de m'avoir écrit. Pouvons-nous commencer par prendre chaque cas à tour de rôle en commençant par cinq verres de Landaus. Je vous ai écrit sur cette page de discussion. Merci,(per Google)
Thank you for writing to me. Can we start by taking each case in turn beginning with five-glass-landaus. I have written to you on that talk page. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 10:31, 17 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I encountered some more of Morio's eternal "xx in so-and-so museum" categories and now I see some of the issues you have been wrestling with. I have started a conversation with him about these Deep Categories that hide pictures away, hopefully we can stop the madness. Best, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 15:32, 1 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks Mr C. I have become really puzzled about what is happening between me, Morio, Michael and you. Somewhere in there is poor Buch-t - keeping low to avoid wild swings? If we can persuade Dschwen to get his FastCCI running reliably it will gather up all the atomised subcategories and display them on one page. Right now when it works it is not entirely suitable. How do we persuade Dschwen to come to the party? so I can stop whining and get on with the job Eddaido (talk) 00:19, 2 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
All I want is for photographs to be findable and organized in a logical manner. I am telling you that I see what you were having problems with earlier and I don't think some categories are appropriate. Sometimes an editor gets carried away and starts applying their formula even when it makes no sense (I am sure I have done it myself many a time). As for overcat, it applies when an item is listed in several neighboring categories. Like when someone adds the same photo to Category:Chevrolet CorvetteandCategory:1978 Chevrolet Corvette. On the other hand, this photo, for instance, is in Category:1989 Ford automobiles as well as in Category:First generation Ford Escort US, even though both of those categories are sub-subcategories of Category:Automobiles. That's ok, and I hope you can understand why that is.
I do not understand anything of what you are saying about Dschwen or about atomised subcategories being gathered. Best, mr.choppers (talk)-en- 01:06, 2 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
"is in Category:1989 Ford automobiles as well as in Category:First generation Ford Escort US, even though both of those categories are sub-subcategories of Category:Automobiles. That's ok, and I hope you can understand why that is." Well, I thought it was Not an over category because the category Ford automobiles is set aside from the count. Part of the magic of Michael Barera's system for categorising by year of manufacture or model year (depending) which Category:1989 Ford automobiles belongs to. In fact I don't see any distinction between your examples. Where am I going wrong? I have failed you, you hope for too much! Eddaido (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Dschwen: developed FastCCI which (when running) from the page Category:Alfa Romeo automobiles will bring to your one screen every image categorised in every sub-category beneath it. Imagine what would happen if you used it on Ford automobiles! Have a look at this. Eddaido (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
From what I can see FastCCI is there to allow you to see all pictures in a category, without having to wade through subcategories. It also might be useful in discovering looping and self-contained categories, which wouldn't apply in any of these cases. Anyhow, since you insist (pretend?) not to understand the meaning of overcategorization I have attached a graphic illustration. At the top is a normal category tree, as proposed for Lanchester by Vanden Plas, and beneath is an example of overcategorization. As you can see, they are in no way similar. mr.choppers (talk)-en- 01:43, 4 January 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hello Eddaido, I'm contacting you because of some historic car pics you worked on. All of them either sport Vanden Plas (England) or Van den Plas (Belgium) coachwork and you categorized them one way or the other. Well, in these cases I'm quite convinced (or at least heavily assuming) that the categorization isn't correct and I'd like to discuss this with you:
1.) You put File:Cadillac 353 Vanden Plas Landaulette at Legendy 2018 in Prague.jpg into Category:Vanden Plas Coachwork. But according to coachbuild.com it has a Belgian Van den Plas body. Apparently the very same car is shown on [13] (13th post from above). The body style looks very much like the other period Cadillac bodied by Van den Plas Brussels - among them the fabulous V16 landaulet from the Louwman Museum. And I think there's no reasonable doubt that the latter is Belgian built based on the very detailed information given by the present owner of the second Van den Plas V16 on [14]; furthermore this very V16 landaulet is pictured in "A-Z European Coachbuilders 1919-2000" by James Taylor (Herridge & Sons, 2017) in the section "Van den Plas (B)".
3.) You moved File:1932 Minerva AKS 32 CV sports tourer by Vanden Plas f3q.JPG and File:1932 Minerva AKS 32 CV sports tourer by Vanden Plas side.JPG to Category:Van den Plas Belgium. But this car too is identified as a VdP (England) body on coachbuild.com - see bottom-most post on [17]. Of course a mentioning on coachbuild.com alone is in no way a proof as this forum holds quite a lot of mistakes. But the style of this body is definitely in line with other cars identified as VdP (England) bodied - compare the bottom-most posts on [18] and [19]. Furthermore, this Minerva is of the flexible fabric-covered kind, something that VdP (England) did quite often, but I'm not aware that VdP (Belgium) ever used this principle...
4.) You moved File:1913 Sheffield Simplex(15863030075).jpg to Category:Van den Plas Belgium (but you didn't alter the description that says "made by Van den Plas, England, 1913", by the way...). Again this car (as well as a bunch of other Sheffield Simplex) is stated to be by VdP (England) on coachbuild.com: [20]. The fourth post from top (which of course shows a limousine) clearly states "VAN DEN PLAS (England) LTD", so this proves that VdP (England) did bodies on this marque right after their foundation in 1913. At this time the "official" spelling of the English licensee obviously still was "Van den Plas" like licensor Van den Plas (Brussels) - the contraction to "Vanden Plas" must have come later. Nevertheless this "Van den Plas (England)" definitely is the English coachuilder and not the Belgian. And I think same goes for the car on commons.
What do you think about all this? Cheers --Purzelbier (talk) 11:08, 30 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
All I can say is this is quite dreadful, the well-deserved very public exposure, it has given me a headache, I think. I will get in first and agree I may be willing and, at times, even enthusiastic but I'm seriously under-educated and I should read more carefully before I categorise such things. I am so grateful that there is someone, anyone, who will come along behind me like this and pick up after me. Some of the discrepancies may be because VdP didn't make anything except in Belgium or maybe France before a certain date? That's a question. It is very good to have a knowledgable critic at one's heels. I'm sorry you've been troubled. Humble apologies and - thanks again, Eddaido (talk) 11:24, 30 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for your fast reply and your kind compliments. Afaic, there's absolutely no need for apologies. I really appreciate your dedication to Commons. We're all in here because we're truly interested in this topic. Mistakes do happen everywhere and to everyone of us. In turn, if you spot any error that I have made or will do in the future (which is inevitable), you're very welcome to correct. I think that's the great thing about Wiki, that anyone can throw in his/her knowledge for the benefit of anyone interested. By the way, if you understand German, you might have a look at [21], I just found out that File:MHV Steyr Austria 1929.jpg isn't a Steyr Austria (but probably an Isotta-Fraschini); right now trying to get the facts straight on German Wikipedia...
Shall I do the corrections on the files stated above or do you want to?--Purzelbier (talk) 11:55, 30 April 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks Pb. I remain dazzled and after much consideration I think it might be best if you made the corrections. Is it possible to copy and paste appropriate parts of the narrative above to the discussion page of each file to inform any subsequent discussion?
I don't read German but Google's translate makes foreign languages so easy to understand and I am pleased and impressed to see the the interesting discussion you pointed me to. More power to your elbows. Regards,Eddaido (talk) 05:45, 1 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That's fine, I'll do the corrections, post a summary on the respective discussion page and set a link to the full discussion here. Thanks again for your compliments. All the best, --Purzelbier (talk) 06:01, 1 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Please cancel or reverse this process, the photographer has given the images an acceptable licence. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 10:39, 18 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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I was aware that that licence was not acceptable to Commons. Then recently I accidentally discovered it is now accepted by the upload system so I uploaded some files of particular interest to me.
The Daimler cars were a case of Flickr-washing and it was my bad to not notice that. The Badger-FWD car I've received no reply from the photographer. BUT I see that photographer now has NO creative commons licences on any of his or her images so I guess that's a NO in response to my request to open up the licence on the Badger-FWD cars!
That means they all have to be deleted. <swear word>
My apologies for creating a nuisance, twice. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 22:55, 11 May 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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I am totally confused, which is a familiar sensation. But I am happy to confirm that Charles is the only name I am smart enough to use / remember for whichever wiki it was you guys had in mind. Um Gottes Will usw.
Also I try to avoid wiki-discussions about categories because we all group stuff in our minds differently and people can become very passionate when they come across someone whose memory / retrieval fails to measure up to their own. Arguments can be fun, but one tries to save them for times when they may go some place useful.
I have a slight soft spot for Armstrong Siddeleys because - implausibly - when I was at school we had a respected (and liked) teacher of Latin who drove an Armstrong Siddeley Hurricane. I think not this one, however: his was blue.
Sadly I do not know the places you mention, though I used to visit Garmisch (& Partenkirchen) when I was more mobile, and more recently we lived in Loerrach for a couple of years. Now that IS southern Germany.
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Sorry, saw it happen and thought it must be to do with the 2-stroke, good to know you are still active. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 11:28, 22 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
You send me an email that came across to me as harassment. You seem to be a bit frustrated with getting emails because of watchlist changes. You can solve that by updating your preferences. Sending me emails won't solve that. I will treat any future emails from you as harassment and I will act on them. Multichill (talk) 15:41, 23 September 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hi Eddaido! Good to see you are still active! Hey, I like to know how you identified file:Sunbeam 16 (1933) - 7784101048.jpg as a Sunbeam 18.2? Too me, it looks like 16, but what do I know.... Just asking, before we rename the file. Thanks for your detailed work! --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 03:55, 10 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Me? Active? Tell that to my friends ! Please. Somehow I got sidetracked onto the Sunbeam page and it took me some time to understand that Sixteen was a model name that continued through 1931-33 (sources vary on those dates) but once the depression was under way they increased the size of the engine a little from a rated 16.9 hp to 18.2 hp by increasing the cylinder bore from 67.5 mm to 70 mm (or one-tenth of an inch?). I read about it here and I took it to mean that while any label on the car might say it was a Sixteen its engine had been shall we say "breathed on" and it was really an 18.2 called Sixteen. About there yesterday I thought of you and how you've sat through so many lectures (you are Not alone) and decided I would find something else to do when I should not have, perhaps. When you read further on the Twenty model ceases to be a 20 but uses the 18.2 engine and . . . . I felt tired. Heaps of Aroha, Dai. Eddaido (talk) 04:39, 10 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks! How cool is that! :-) 60mph? Brrr...... Will rename the files accordingly. --Hedwig in Washington(mail?) 09:07, 10 April 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Sorry, no, it is not allowed to upload these photos to Commons. They are licensed only for non-commercial use. For Wikimedia only these licences are accepted: Public Domain Dedication (CCO), Attribution, Attribution Share-Alike.
Maybe ten years ago it was worth writing to the copyright holder and asking them to release the restriction but today they are not so friendly. Also (as you can see) these photos are now almost 20 years old and the photographer probably hasn't even thought of Flickr since then. I can drop them a note and see what happens. Will do that but they need to look at Flickr to get my message.
It's worth a try and let's hope for success. Regards --Buch-t (talk) 10:22, 4 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
James Tworów alias sherlock77 is now on instagram which is a complete mystery to me. He says he is a street photographer so I suppose lives by the photos he takes, against that he seems to enjoy cars so you might like to write to him at Instagram. Will now go further into other photographer. Eddaido (talk) 11:35, 4 December 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Anyway, I put it in a separate category for 2 reasons:
So I will upload the other Alvises in, say, the TE21 category for the first one, and just Alvis Cars for the one I'm not sure of (I sutpidely forgot to take a picture of its identification card) ; you or another Alvis specialist may be able to decide whether it's a TE21, TF21 or other, by the normal coachbuilder or by a custom one.
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Done Alright, Eddaido, I've now created the categories Category:Modified Ford automobiles, Category:Modified Chevrolet automobiles, and Category:Modified automobiles. I really do think the "Modified [] automobiles" naming convention looks better for them. Please feel free to modify these categories (and add new parallel ones) as you see fit. And please don't hesitate to message me with your question(s); I can't promise any results, but I'll always be happy to help as much as I can. I always enjoy conversing with you. All the best! Michael Barera (talk) 02:47, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
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