Hugo Modderman sends this nice period shot. The car obviously is pre WWI . He bets it is a Mercedes Simplex. Yet he wonders why the car has a Dutch 1923 registration. Probably it was imported form Germany into Holland as the family who owned the car lived a long time in Germany. The numbers painted on the radiator may be the first registration.
The car is shown here during a very early spring outing. The trees still without their green and the clothing of an early twenties winter. Funny but the registration K3572 came out in 1925 on the name of a Citroën importer from Middelburg. Why the family drove the car in his name? We can only guess after that. Question marks, question marks... but the most important one is of course what is the type of motorcar we're looking at. Mercedes, yes quite possible. But without the threepointed star there is always room for doubt. 1912 Berliet? Alco? Or?