What you won't find at Pebble beach (update: 1907 Lorraine Dietrich by Schutter & van Bakel)

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UPDATE: thanks to the help of various friends it didn't take too long to ID the automobile. To your editor personally the namegiving of this intricate 'mpv' was the most intersting issue. Knowing that not many of you master the Dutch langusage we wil try to explain the text as published by the newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad with an article about "the Coachwork of the Car" , 6 february 1925:
"A Conduite-Interieur on the basis fo a Lorraine-Dietrich of 1907. Front piece is an old Dorsay shape, rear portion a Landaulet-Limousine. Room for six persons. The rear seat is, in combinations with the strapontins, transformable in two sleepings beds or - better said- sofas. The (spare) tires are carried  in the case on the frontal roof section. On the rear end is room for two suitcases."

One problem still persists: the car depicted above has ten spoke front wheels, in the other picture it has twelve !?! Were the wheels exchanged after a recall by Lorraine Diettich, or by van Schutter & Bakel? 

earlier:
Today is decision time at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. The judges at world's foremost important concours have the nearly impossible task to choose the very best from the very best while at the same time trying to stay far away from the political cobwebs created by collector car bobos and sponsors. A super tough job which is more like tightrope walking.
We thought the car pictured at a pre WWI concours would be nice to show. Especially as despite the flocks of multi million dollar cars at Pebbles neither jury or crowds will not get to see anything even close to this. 

Hugo Modderman who sent the picture adds: "This car was owned by Eddy Stratenus and all ladies are my aunties. The car is chain-driven. But what is the marque?"

editor: maybe even more interesting than the make of car is the 'double-bubble' open-driver twin landaulet limousine coachwork, this probably being a totally inappropriate description, yet as you know, we love to learn.  

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