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Looking for Tut.

Post by Dollisdad » Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:05 am

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Re: Looking for Tut.

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Re: Looking for Tut.

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Bryant » Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:44 am

Pic #10 any ideas what is on the running board of the Tudor?
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Drkbp » Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:54 am

The second photo has a pair of T touring cars which may
be almost new.
They appear to have Wisconsin 1915 license plates.


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Perry Goble » Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:42 am

Number 11 looks like they are getting ready for a cattle drive . Perry from Texas

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by George House » Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:55 am

Picture #2 shows us another brass T without a hand crank. Wonder why??…Any idea where the first picture was taken ? I see 2 pyramids and a camel 🤔 intriguing body style too. Not a town car…
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by RajoRacer » Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:20 am

I see a hand crank on both George - first one appears to have a "crank holder". #1 sure appears to be an early Towncar.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Norman Kling » Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:46 am

It amazes me how many different pictures you have. However, I know you make after market sheetmetal parts for the Model T's, so you do need many pictures to tell what kind of fenders etc they have. It also amazes me that almost all the people of those days wore such elaborate clothes for everyday occasions like picnics or visits to pyramids etc. Maybe they only wore them when expecting pictures to be taken, but I see some of my ancestors wearing neckties when going on a 10 mile hike in the mountains! Again, it was expensive to take pictures, so they wanted to make a good impression.
These days people have become VERY casual. Even to attend church many are casual.
I always look forward to viewing your pictures.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by TWrenn » Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:09 pm

RajoRacer wrote:
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:20 am
I see a hand crank on both George - first one appears to have a "crank holder". #1 sure appears to be an early Towncar.
Yep. Difficult to discern, but you can see it if you look hard enough. Wonder what car the far right one is, definitely not a T.

I love the Towncar in first pic. Possibly a '12? I see it's RH drive also. Can't fathom being out in the hot desert all gussied up like that, but then that's how things were back in those days!

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Arbs » Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:29 pm

My 10 year old son asked if that was a pokemon hanging off of the car in the last photo.

I'm sure it is.
Where is the OBD2 port on this thing?


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Allan » Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:18 pm

The Cohen Dairy milk truck is special. It looks to be a low radiator model. The fancy plating job on the radiator shell and headlamp rims is a nice touch. Then it has that unique metal cowl made to fit the "bottle" cab. Can anyone recognise what the radiator cap ornament is?

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by TWrenn » Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:32 am

Arbs wrote:
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:29 pm
My 10 year old son asked if that was a pokemon hanging off of the car in the last photo.

I'm sure it is.
Looks like a "chamber pot" to me! These guys look too well-refined to stop and use a tree or a cornfield when nature calls! :lol:


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:00 am

Number five, the milk bottle TT, has the 1921 only green painted visor headlamp lenses.
Nickel plating the radiator shell was unusual on black era model Ts, on TT trucks it is almost unheard of! The license plate looks like it is from outside the USA? Anybody recognize it? Really a neat interesting truck!


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Rich P. Bingham » Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:05 am

I like those seldom-seen green visored lenses. Gives a T a “dreamy” look. I’ve never seen a milk bottle like that - maybe it’s a bulk can ? Collecting from dairy farms on a route ? Would account for needing a TT. I thought the plate looks like the UK or dominions - any road, it’s “OK” :lol:
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Swinz » Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:30 am

The Cohens Dairy TT is a photo which is available to purchase from various websites in a higher resolution than the one on here.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-cohen ... 45859.html

The descriptions are that Cohens full cream Dairy were based in Birmingham England, the registration number starting with "OK" is a Birmingham code, so backs this up. The cab is shaped like a type of milk churn which were used by the railways, the tapered shape and wide base made them more stable and less likely to tip over.


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Norman Kling » Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:56 am

Rick, the license plate starts with OK It might be Oklahoma. Those from that area would probably verify.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Rich P. Bingham » Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:20 am

Thank you for clearing that up, Paul! Much appreciated.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:47 pm

I thought likely British, based in part on the license plate, but the TT is left-hand side driven, which I would expect to be unusual in England.
British Empire, its colonies, and much of Europe, were all more likely to nickel plate the radiator shell than was the USA. For them, the model T was an expensive import, usually bought by people that would willingly pay extra for some nice brightwork on their vehicle.

Thank you Paul S for the additional information!


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Allan » Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:20 pm

Wayne, in England they reverted to LHD on the introduction of the starter/generator on T's It didn't take the Canadians long to get around the problem of getting the steering columd past the generator on RHD cars. It did take the British longer to adopt the modification.

As many of the trucks were base models, often ordered with no starter/generator, none of this would apply in reality.

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:50 pm

Thank you Allan B for the clarification! I had read that before, but forgotten about it.
Again, thank you.


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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:35 pm

I sure like that second photo with the two 1915 touring cars! Both appear to have brass trimmed lamps, so likely both true 1915s. I can't see enough detail of the license plates to pin down a year. And I would really like to know what the car the other side of the two Ts is?
Notice, that the nearest T touring car has beehive Hassler shock absorbers.

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Mark Gregush » Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:40 am

RE No 10: I will go with as suggested below, on reflection, that is what it must be. I was zoning in on the area not the whole car. ;)
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by perry kete » Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:22 am

In picture #11 the truck with the ramp down, if you look in the side oval window you can see a face looking out and feet by the front left wheel. They must be standing in front of the truck in just the right spot to be seen through the windshield and oval window or there is a woman sitting in the truck looking out the window (dress hanging out the door) and someone else standing by the front of the truck.
Nice pin stripe work on the cattle racks too.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by George House » Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:51 am

Nope. The ‘26-‘27 Tudor in picture # 10 doesn’t have a ‘flare’ toward the rear of the splash apron. This flare was discontinued around 1914 when Model Ts were narrower but it was meant for rear radius rod clearance. There is a vertical appearing fastener in that picture securing an unknown object to the RB.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Dan Haynes » Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:09 am

The thing on the running board of the Tudor in #10 appears to be the reflection of the fender in the splash apron and the reflection of the splash apron in the fender.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Bryant » Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:55 am

I kept picturing a spot light. Looks like a bracket there. But who knows. The car appears to have black fenders and maybe a green body. But the light could be playing tricks.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:10 am

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Jonathan.2909 » Fri Dec 20, 2024 12:52 pm

the second picture the first touring car doesn't appear to have a crank, am I missing something?

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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by George House » Fri Dec 20, 2024 1:10 pm

Back in March (see above) I detected that Ford didn’t have a hand crank too… But folks smarter than me chimed in and said it Does have a crank.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by varmint » Fri Dec 20, 2024 1:33 pm

Looks like they both do to me.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by Ron Patterson » Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:14 am

If the persons in the first photo are looking for KingTut he was buried 400 miles to the south in the Valley of the Kings. Tuts mummy now resides downtown in the Cairo Museum of Egyptology
That photo was taken at the pyramids on the Giza plateau West of Cairo.The Mena House hotel is just across the street.
I lived in Cairo for two years (1980/1981) and took my daily jog around those two pyramids.
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Re: Looking for Tut.

Post by hah » Sun Dec 22, 2024 2:06 pm

Tut gut!!!!!

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