Car historian Ivan Taylor writes: "I came across this photo a long while ago and so far have not been able to identify it. I wondered if your experts and readers can help me. It has a most unusual front suspension set up. I wonder if it is front wheel drive with separate electric motors on each wheel, if not what are they? Maybe some form of shock absorbers. The only link I have found is a man called Holverta.
While searching I was directed to a Youtube video "Nuevos Sistemas de Automoviles" (Editor: about a system deployed on an Alfa Romeo and Breda(?) from Milano). Take a look at it. This early 1920's film shows a car being demonstrated over tough up and down country for the army and other dignitaries present. It carries a GB plate XP7652 and looks larger than the one in th photo above. If you look closely it appears that it also may have rear wheel steering and is possibly 4.W.D. (Editor: the tube shaped forms suggest the use of a worm drive). Holverta evidently took out patents on a similar or maybe this car but I have drawn a blank on him, or his patents and car. I wonder why the front wheels are on such an angle, and also what sort of a steering lock it had. The radiator is a different shape also."