Re: Can anyone help me id vehicle
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Date: September 24, 2010 05:46PM
This car was originally a 20hp White steamer.
It is either a 1907 Model "H" or a 1908 Model "L" like mine. It is very difficult to tell between these cars as they were identical in many ways. One really needs a side view to identify it more accurately. HTe side view of this car does not help!
A 30hp car would not have the water tank behind the bonnet infront of the dash but underneath the floorboards -as would all the 1909 and 1910 Whites.
The 1906 cars have a narrower condenser rim visable.
It was stated to me that the Coles car was a 30 hp car. I think that they believed that it was. I took some pictures of it in the Caister Castle Museum some years ago and I am sure that it started life as a 20hp 1907 White Model "H" but I believe that it has a 30hp engine fitted - I was denied access to the engine at the time. Anyway the car was quite a mess and needed a total extensive rebuild after some detailed research to check its true identity.