Sorry it is no Steyer, no Puch and no Alfa Romeo. The famous international rally to which we referred was of course the New-York to Paris of 1908 (see the car). No less than seven competitors produced the Make Protos. When you click the photo you'll that the idea behind quiz 386 was an advert of the Moll company (motorcars & motor-cycles) in Holland.
No less than seven competitors and jurymembers identified the car as a Protos C type. Martin Reichmayr, Moritz, Bernard Correge, Fedor, Hugo Modderman and jury members Ingo Jost, Fritz Hegeman and Ronnie Marenzi. Only jurymember Robbie had the guts to add a single year to this car: 1919 and he must be pretty close as the advert apeared in December 1922. The coachwork is a T4 as mentioned by Hugo Modderman, while at the same time is it intersting to learn that Heinzgerd Schott claims that the body is presumably made by Karl Weinberger from Munich who did many Protos cars. In the end we decided to honour Mr. Moritz who came up withe the right answer, plus the fact that the V-shape radiator is an hommage to Protos designer Ernst Valentin who before Protos also worked for Gobron-Brillié, Nagant, Rex-Simplex and the Berliner Motorwagen Fabrik. Congratulations Moritz. We love to learn!
(quiz idea Gerard Brands)