Quite some French cars had this kind of Rolls-Royce like radiator in the 1920s and several of these were mentioned by the participants in this quiz. But no, it is not a Guilick, it is not a Montagnac (an example of this very obscure make was offered for sale recently in France), it is not a Bignan (not really obscure and with a slightly different radiator), it is not a Ravel, it is not a Jean Gras or a Donnet-Zedel (their radiators didn’t have such sharp edges). If you google “taxi Amsterdam 1926” you would have found the very same car: an Induco. Congratulations to João Pedro Gazineu and Robbie Marenzi for your correct answers. But alas, since both of you are already members of the jury we have no winner this time.
The Induco was built by a small French company in the 1920s. The director was a mr. E. Van der Heyden and this Dutch name may give a clue to the remarkable fact that this car was actually imported into The Netherlands for two years. The Induco was shown at the Amsterdam Salon (‘RAI’) in 1926 by a company called ATAX (the name of a well-known taxi company from Amsterdam) which was located in Arnhem. According to the RAI catalogue one could admire seven cars at the stand: one ‘conduite intérieure’, one ‘transformable’, four examples of a ‘torpedo’ (with two, three and four seats) and one small delivery van. The bodies were either Weymann or ‘tout acier’.
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