Be silent with a Victor!

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While preparing the article for the Coys Auction at Interclassics & Topmobile held last Saturday, we stumbled onto a page on Coys website which we hadn't seen before. It's their showroom on which they offer several cars that will not be auctioned. On this page we saw a strange High Wheeler, recently brought from the USA to the UK. It's a Victor that was built in 1907 and has chassis number 33759. It's very modern, as it will fit right in with today's trend for electric vehicles. Its six Odyssey PC2250 high capacity traction batteries will run for 65 – 75 miles on one full charge. Does your present day Tesla do any better?

Yet there's also a mystery. The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942 mentions an electric car called the Victor that was registered on April 8, 1907 by S.H. Bunshaw of Lincoln, Nebraska. There's only one reference to this automobile in the Nebraska Secretary of State Motor Vehicles Register, so we cannot be certain that this is the one mentioned in the Catalogue. If it is the 'Nebraska' Victor, then why the high chassis number? Can anyone shed some more light on this? Whatever the outcome, you can be certain of a silent ride in a very unique vehicle!

(Photos courtesy Coys)

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