OT - what kind of car is this?

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire (La Florida!) on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 01:04 pm:

Hope this is visible, While helping my grand daughter research the Grand Goulet I found this picture (Built between 1844 and 1851, Les Grands-goulets)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Idaho Falls on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 01:40 pm:

It is likely a French or other European car that many of us are not familiar with. I found this photo but all the text is in French or some other language. It is a neat picture and probably well circulated. Maybe someone will recognize the car.
Thanks
Rich


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire (La Florida!) on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 01:48 pm:

Dauphine I assume is the photographer the rest is "The Alps, the Big Bottlenecks"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Idaho Falls on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 01:52 pm:

Thanks G.R.

https://www.vanillamagazine.it/les-grands-goulets-la-terrificante-strada-dimenti cata-sulle-alpi-francesi/


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Will Brown on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 02:17 pm:

Dauphine is the former name for a province in the Alps of France


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By gary hammond-Forest, Va on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 02:42 pm:

wasn't there a Renault Dauphine?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Lodge - St Louis MO on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 03:05 pm:

Yes, but this is Dauphiné - three syllables. From Wikipedia:

"The Dauphiné; or Dauphiné Viennois, formerly Dauphiny in English, is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme, and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was originally the County of Albon."

From dangerousroads.org:

https://www.dangerousroads.org/europe/france/301-les-grands-goulets-road-france. html


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Andrew Benoit on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 06:45 pm:

Mors Type N?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dick Fischer - Arroyo Grande, CA on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 08:50 pm:

I have no idea of the type car, but do dearly love those front fenders. Driving through town, you could hit a water puddle and splash people on both sides of the street. And maybe wet down all the store windows at the same time.

Dick


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Bond on Sunday, September 02, 2018 - 09:36 pm:

Most certainly a Mors, about 1909 or perhaps even as late as 1910.
Terry


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Gregush Portland Oregon on Monday, September 03, 2018 - 12:12 am:

With that light above the crank, bet it could be a bugger to start!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Idaho Falls on Monday, September 03, 2018 - 09:02 am:

Andrew and Terry are correct. Nice work.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire (La Florida!) on Monday, September 03, 2018 - 09:11 am:

Thanks, now I know. I have learned a few things today, Like when they cut that road the men would be on ropes from above drill the hole for the dynamite light the fuse then swing out of the way before it exploded! they were a lot braver than me.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rich Bingham, Blackfoot, Idaho on Monday, September 03, 2018 - 09:08 pm:

G. R. - interesting note on the construction technique. Looks like it would be a great road to travel in that era ! FWIW, they would have been blasting with black powder. Alfred Nobel didn't receive his patent for dynamite until 1867.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Tuesday, September 04, 2018 - 11:13 am:

GR, same technique the Chinese laborers used while building the Central Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada.


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