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How's your Japanese? (UPDATE: Yoshitoshi Tokugawa?)
We received a nice batch of photos from Japan from Jos Theuns. All cars show Japanese drivers and passengers. Still there are doubts if this specific photo was made in Japan. The Wright Flyer (?) in combination with the chimneys may not fit in the period landscape. But possibly we are wrong. Mr. Kawasaki opened his first factories long before 1900. And Mr. Okura (yes, the hotel-chap) loved fast cars. Check the well-known photo showing the 1907 Fiat and Mr. Okura. And maybe - we like to stress, maybe - this could be the same car...? First check the car a bit closer (click) and also the heavily retouched close up (click). Now if you know Japanese, the mystery will be solved in seconds we think. Who can tell?
UPDATE by editor: despite our note that these photos presumably are made in Japan, we receive various comments that this is not in Japan, primarily based on the aeroplane. Why not widen your horizon a bit and check Wiki (not wikileaks :-) for the flight of Yoshitoshi Tokugawa with a "Kai-shiki 1 g?ki" on the Tokyo fairgrounds in 1911? Or the fisrt flight with a Henry Farman in 1910!
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Dienstag November 30th, 2010
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Unbekannt
01 Dezember 2010, 10:29
Nigel Hamlin-Wright
01 Dezember 2010, 09:55
Hello,
I don't think it's a Wright model, the undercarriage is not their style; more likely a Curtiss - possibly the A-1 Triad which the Japanese bought in about 1912-ish which would help with the confirmation of the location.
Wonderful picture wherever it was taken.
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I don't think it's a Wright model, the undercarriage is not their style; more likely a Curtiss - possibly the A-1 Triad which the Japanese bought in about 1912-ish which would help with the confirmation of the location.
Wonderful picture wherever it was taken.
Unbekannt
01 Dezember 2010, 03:25
The aircraft looks like a Curtiss Model D ("Curtiss Pusher"). Check the old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. They have a flying 1911 example.
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Unbekannt
01 Dezember 2010, 03:12
The photograph depicts Lincoln Beachey and Barney Oldfield who staged hippodrome races throughout the U.S. Both men were famous in their fields of aviation and auto racing. Beachey and Oldfield staged "The Championship Of The Universe" at least 35 times to the thrill of American crowds in 1914. The car is a 100 hp Fiat and the aircraft a Curtiss. The race photograph is most likely was taken at a fairground track in the U.S. and not Japan. Thanks for the article. William James Hentges
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The photo shows the daredevil aviator Lincoln Beachey flying his V8 Curtiss biplane in one of the many 'Champion of the Universe' exhibition contests he put on with his partner, the legendary cigar-chomping automobilist Berna (Barney) Oldfield, between 1912 and 1914. Beachey's favourite trick was apparently to knock Oldfield's hat off with his landing gear as the pair sped past the hollering grandstands...