Very frequently we publish a mystery and very frequently you lot come up with the correct answer. However, sometimes it takes a bit longer, like the solution to this Café Mystery dating back from January 2005, eleven(!) years ago. Ariejan Bos decided to have a look at all our (un)solved mysteries and after a lot of research he came up with the correct answer to this one. It's none of the makes already mentioned back in 2005, but it's a Royal Star dating from 1907. Royal Star has always had those sloping louvres as can be seen on this picture of a Royal Star with an identical radiator pictured at the stand of Dutch importer van Genderingen at the 1907 RAI-exhibition in Amsterdam.Earlier text (and updates):
Hans Waldeck (member of the Dutch car history club 'Conam') sends this unidentified Café 'taxi' from around 1910. The licence is known to have been on the name of a Mr. N. Peereboom from Oosthuizen, a village just north of Purmerend that was known for its cattle market. It is not known if he was the owner of 'Café de Tuinbouw'. Mr. Waldeck suggests the car can be an Austin, a Pipe or even a Laurin & Clement, but his gut feeling says it is probably none of those.... (photo courtesy Conam; click for more detail)
Edit.: Note the 'backward leaning' louvres and characteristic headlamps with extra inside lenses. What is your opinion? Info*PreWarCar.com
Update I: Wiggo Carlsen from Norway writes that these backleaning louvres are like with the 1911 Olds louvres. However the form of the hood is quite different:
Update II: Triggered by the earlier remarks about the louvres Hans Waldeck found in 'Schweizer Autos' by Ernest Schmid a photo of a Lucerna landaulette 1907/09 with Aster 4 cylinder engine. The car is showing great similarities, also in the bonnetshape.
Update III by Hans Compter:"Pre World War-I German, French and Belgian made cars were quite strongly represented in the Netherlands, especially during the first decade. A Pipe therefor would be a candidate were it not that all those cars' radiators had a small elevation on their centre tops. I don't see that feature on this car. The brass acytelene generator and brass headlights appear to be Riemann. The wide flat radiator and leaning louvres all correspond with a 4 cylinder German Scheibler of about the 1905-1906 period, type 24/30 or 35/40PS. The shortlived Scheibler cars were made in Aachen (Aix-de-la-Chapelle) just across the Dutch southern Limburg border. They were expensive quality cars made between 1900 and 1907. After that a newly formed company continued to make the Mannesmann trucks and buses until the beginning of 1928. The only other car which virtually has the same wide radiator and 12 spoke wheels was the Belgian Fondu but none of my Fondu-cars photos show the leaning louvres. The coachwork on this car looks to be from a coachbuilder and with the former Dutch owner living north of Amsterdam it could very well be a Schutter body (Schutter & van Bakel). (see also Günther Schnuer "Der Automobilbau in Aachen" (1896-1928) (Edition Euregio). I have never seen a Dutch importer's advertisement offering the Swiss Lucerna, only Martinis and Pic Pics."