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A Lady Version of the Gordon-Watney De Dietrich? (update: or Benz, Mercedes, Turcat Méry? )

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See that happy smile, mrs. Hawke barily can overlook the bonnet of her chaindrive tourer. A few sizes smaller than the 135 HP De Dietrich Gordon Watney as presented earlier this week but still a strong look-a-like. Another project Gordon Watney rebody maybe? We see nearly the same tasty wheeldisc treatment and many other parallels. Wings have a flimsy look, the headlights somewhat small and the cap protruding from the radiator toptank looks like a later addition. The photo was earlier shown in The Automobile, but it never came to a real identification. Maybe the Gordon Watney has stirred up enough old dust to finally identify this car as well? The car was owned by Ernest Hawke - who was a succesful flour miller from Leicestershire. He had a weak spot for chaindrive cars as you will find out with our Monday mystery...

editor: thank gents you for all the wise comments you sent. However what's not clear to us on which make of car you ended. With several remakrs we get the impression that you folks think this is the same car as last Wednesday which it obviously is not...)

(family album Jon Dudley)


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