This is unlike anything I have seen.
It looks like a Welch.
I agree it is a Welch.
Are there any surviving today?
I agree, definitely a Welch. It's a 5-6 year old car in the photo, judging by the 1913 New Hampshire license plate. I believe there are three left. And Royce, I'll bet you have seen one of the survivors- it's in OKC.
Probably the most well known surviving Welch is the one that belonged to the late author Ralph Stein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Stein
It's featured in his book "The Treasury of the Automobile" and there is a photo of it on the dust jacket.
Very impressive motor - overhead cam and, if I recall correctly, hemispherical combustion chambers.
I believe there are four of them-Nethercutt Collection, LA County Museum Collection, Henry Ford Museum, and the above pictured car that was owned by Stein for many years.
I saw the one on the cover of the Ralph Stein book about 18 years ago in CO.
Sheesh, this is one of those stories...it was the mid 1970's, and I was interested in buying a 1910 Hupmobile in a collection in north Louisiana, and I ended up buying most of the collection, 10 cars or so.....I'd read Ralph Stein's books, of course, and in one of them, "Runabouts and Roadsters", he discussed such a Hupp. I called him, having done some of the pre-internet net-working to get his number...we discussed that car and a 1906 Autocar that was available to me. I'll never forget, he said "Why don't you consider buying my Welch?"...well, of course I knew the car from the book, what's the asking price...if I remember correctly, it was 30K, a lot of money back then, but I was in a position that I could have done it...but said no. What a car, what an opportunity, oh well, still thankful for what I have now!
The Stein Welch now lives in Oklahoma as part of the Bolton Collection.
The Welch has overhead valves in a hemispheric combustion chamber. Also an overhead cam. Very impressive engine!
They also had mousetrap ignition or make and break with no spark plugs but opened and closed a gap by monkey motion to cause a spark.
Are you sure you're not thinking about the Matheson Frank?
First guess when I saw the photos was Welch, guess what book I was reading and drooling over the cars in it back in the 70's? (Even the Model T made it into that book)