My father's grandfather car is a ?
UPDATE VI: HUMBER !!

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Here a mystery photo sent to us by Frank Kat. "I would like to know what kind of car this is. The reason I want to know is that the driver of this Amsterdam cab is the father of my grandfather. His name was Marcus de Jonge who died in 1913. His last occupation was Taxi-driver. I think the company’s name was ARM or ETAM (Amsterdamse Rijtuigen Maatschappij or Eerste Taxicentrale Amsterdam). The picture is from around 1908 – 1910 in Amsterdam, but I don’t know which street. Can you help me in my quest?"
We will try Frank, but we always do this with the help of our knowledgeable visitors. In this case we like to point out the great detailing of the photo. We can read the taxi number. Also we can see the taxi is Free ('Vrij' in Dutch). We even can see Mrs. de Jonge in the window behind the car ! But the give-away in this photo - we think- is the radiator ?. The badge makes us think of Berliet. But please correct us when we are wrong. [email protected]
UPDATE VI by Trygve Krogsæter: "I can confirm the car to be a Humber. The oldest Norwegian car importer, Bertel O. Steen, started with Hunmbers in 1908. They still have one from 1910 in their "museum". The typical Humber radiator is that it is not straight down on the sides, but are "cut" off against the center in bottom, just like this one. The emblem is the sam. The hub caps are very special, excactly like the Norwegian, and at the end, ther very special fender! No doubt, this is a Humber 4 cyl."
UPDATE V by Dale Conlon (NZ):"I agree with Stephen Walker. There is no doubt it is a Humber. Guards, hubs and radiator give it away instantly. A feature of Humber radiators is the nickle shell with painted front panel I would guess at 1910-11 as it doesn't have the single spoke steering wheel of the earlier cars. Their Taxi's were built on 2 & 4 cyl chassis. This is certainly one of the latter."
UPDATE IV by Fons Alkemade (NL):"This car could very well be an Omnia but as far as I know Omnia cabs only drove along in The Hague. It has been written that Omnia may have started as a builder of a Belgian car under licence and that gave me the impression that at least the radiator has a strong resemblance to those of FN cars of the period. In the Dutch automotive literature of around 1910 I have detected the following makes which were used as taxicabs in Amsterdam: Opel, Argyll, Germain, and German electric cars. All these makes don't seem to be related to the car in the picture."
UPDATE III by Stephen Walker (AU) who is not convinced at all about Omnia, he says it is a 1909/1910 Humber 16 HP. Check to compare the 1911 limousine at Humberonia (UK) Even the frontwings give an almost exact match! Could it be so that Omnia bought Humber chassis ...?
UPDATE II by Rutger Booy who agrees with Evan that this must be an Omnia just like the earlier posted Omnia in an earlier taxi mystery. Interesting note is that Rutger Booy lives only 100 meters from where the Omnia factory used to be in Rotterdam.
UPDATE I by Evan Ide, US writes:"The taxi looks as though it may be an Omnia. They were made in the Netherlands and they were widely used as taxis."

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