Another German 'Bathtub' Mystery ( update: 1913-14 Opel)

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Juri Castricum: "Yesterday I visited an acquaintance who showed me this picture and asked which car this is and of which year it would be. This is a family portret, probably taken somewhere in the area of Gouda-Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In the background there's a commercial sign, but nothing we can identify. The car is most likely from German descent looking at the shape of the bodywork, most recognizable at the rear end. It makes sense if it is a German car since the family was in business with Germany at the time."

Editor: The flood of this typically shaped 'bathtub' tourers seems never to come to an end while hardly any - if any - has survived. Probably due to wartime activties and a hungry weapon industry eating all available metal. We'll have to rely on your knowledge about this Mercedes like radiator and specific outspoken louvres. What may be of help is that we found the small three louvres in a 1918 Mercedes Knight...

(Picture courtesy of Juri Castricum)

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