1916 Town Car at a swedish museum

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Friday, July 20, 2012 - 04:59 pm:

It wasn't planned visiting the Svedino collection in Ugglarp, Sweden today, so I didn't bring a camera - but I took some shots with the cell phone since I remember Don Watson likes to see Town Car photos :-)

Lennart "Svedino" Svedfeldt was a professional conjurer and a pioneer car and aviaton collector in Sweden. The museum was opened in 1961 = the first automotive museum in scandinavia. The cars are generally in good "as found" condition with some unauthentic details accompanied with some misdating/questionable facts in the info texts. http://www.svedinos.se/en/
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This Town Car is presented as a 1914, but the info text tells it was bought in US in the autumn of 1915 and first registred in sweden during the spring of 1916. It has a october 22, 1915 engine (#940003) and was considered as a 1916 model by Ford.
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It looks unmolested except for the brass headlights probably put there by Svedino to make it look more antique and the 1925-27 european drop frame front axle.

There were other T's at the museum - this 1913 looked pretty much intact, the period accessory Livingston radiator didn't detract from it's appearence ;)
1913 touring
Engine # 224xxx = march 11 or 12 1913. Of course it was dated as a 1912 :-)

Other cars? Lots of pre war Volvos, a rare 1939 Tatra type 87 with rear mounted V8 a rare 1920's 6 cyl Anderson and lots of other fun stuff.
Tatra
Behind the Tatra is the remains of an early insurance fraud - an austrian 1911 Gräf und Stift doppelphaeton dumped in a Stockholm harbour during the 20's to collect insurance money, found and lifted some 50 years ago. 40 years in the baltic sea didn't do it any good, the brackish water has made it almost unrestoreable. A notable car sinca the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding such a car in Sarajevo at the time of his assassination on June 28, 1914..


Airplanes? Lots of Swedish post war fighters, + some other planes from 1918 on, didn't have time for more detail study since my family got bored and wanted to move on after 45 minutes..


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Don Watson -Florence,Colorado on Friday, July 20, 2012 - 07:25 pm:

Roger,
Thanks for remembering us and for getting the Serial # now we can up date our Files.
-Don


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Friday, July 20, 2012 - 11:54 pm:

Here's a 1915 town car owned by Jim Finney for comparison purposes:


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