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Essex Motor Company was introduced in 1918, and absorbed by the Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit in 1922.
Essex offered a cheap car range and was positioned under the more luxury Hudson cars. The 4 cylinder cars were very popular. The later 6 cylinders were at the start not free from technical troubles. This decreased sales numbers.
In 1932 the L6 Essex-Terraplane was launched. In 1933 the Essex brand name disappeared to make place for the Hudson sub-division Terraplane.
In 1926 Studebaker introduced his sub-division Erskine, as an answer to the successful cheap Essex range by Hudson.

Note the empty hook between the bonnet and the right front door: normally the spare wheel is kept here.

2600 cc L6 engine.
Performance: 55 bhp.
Production Essex cars: 1922-1933.
Production Essex this version: 1929.
Old British reg. number (?).

Photo taken from:
The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 to the Present, London, Ebury Press, 1973.
Original photo source: G.N. Georgano.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
(book was a gift from Karel, Dec. 2024).

Halfweg, Febr. 7, 2025.

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Erskine was a sub-division of Studebaker. It was created in 1926 as a sort of reply to Hudson's Essex.
It was built in South Bend, Ind. and originally conceived for the European market. Erskine was positioned under the more luxury Studebekar.
Available were 2 and a 4-door sedan and a 4-door Tourer. Model codes were 50, 51, 52 and 53. I don't know the exact year and model code of this car.
The Erskine was designed by Ray Dietrich (American coachbuilder, 1894-1980).
The first prototypes were presented in 1926. A restyle took place in 1929.
The Erskine was technically a good car but nevertheless not very successful, specially not in the States. Finally Erskine was withdrawn from the market as a independent brand name in May 1930, and the model range was absorbed into Studebaker.

2192 cc L6 petrol engine.
Production Erskine cars: 1926-May 1930.
Production Erskine this version: model year 1928.
Original first reg. number: Dec. 1927.
Old British reg. number (currently not valid).
Last registration: July 10, 1990.

Photo taken from:
The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 to the Present, London, Ebury Press, 1973.
Original photo source: G.N. Georgano.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
(book was a gift from Karel, Dec. 2024).

Halfweg, Febr. 7, 2025.

© 2025 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved

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N 7 B 453 C 0 E Jan 12, 2025 F Jan 12, 2025
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I would like you to join me into the early history of the Russian automobile industry.
Russia knew a few automobile manufacturers in the first quarter of the 20th Century, (thanks Anton VG for the lacking info) but until the 1920s vehicle industry in general was mainly limited to utility and agricultural vehicles, and for transport of goods and raw materials.
Contacts with Ford offered better quality trucks like the GAZ-AA truck (or NAZ-AA as it was called in the first production year). Later also a passenger car was developed, the GAZ-A Sedan (or NAZ-A).

The GAZ M11-73, or just M11, was presented in 1940. It was the direct successor of the GAZ-M1.
After WWII the M11-73 was replaced by the M20 Pobieda, which means Victory.

3485 cc L6 Chrysler engine.
Performance: 76 bhp.
C. 1370 kg.
Production GAZ M-1 series: 1936-1943.
Production GAZ M11-73 series: 1940-1941/1945-1948.
Without reg. number.

Photo taken from:
The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 to the Present, London, Ebury Press, 1973.
Original photo source: NAMI, Moscow.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
(book was a gift from Karel, Dec. 2024).

Halfweg, Jan. 12, 2025.

© 2025 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved

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N 7 B 440 C 0 E Jan 12, 2025 F Jan 12, 2025
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I would like you to join me into the early history of the Russian automobile industry.
Russia knew a few automobile manufacturers in the first quarter of the 20th Century, (thanks Anton VG for the lacking info) but until the 1920s vehicle industry in general was mainly limited to utility and agricultural vehicles, and for transport of goods and raw materials.
Contacts with Ford offered better quality trucks like the GAZ-AA truck (or NAZ-AA as it was called in the first production year). Later also a passenger car was developed, the GAZ-A Sedan (or NAZ-A).

The caption for this photo does indeed read 1938 M11-40, but this is incorrect. This type of grille is from the 1936-1943 M1. A prototype of a M1 4-door Tourer was presented in 1937, and not in 1938.
Finally the GAZ M11 was launched in 1940 as a successor of the M1.

Inspiration for the 5-passenger GAZ-M1 sedan was found in the 1932-1934 Ford Model B. GAZ had a license contract with Ford.
The first M1 sedan prototype was presented in February 1935.
The M-1 was the successor of the 1932-1936 GAZ-A, which was based on the 1927-1931 Ford Model A.
Production ended in 1941, but assemblage could be continued till 1943 with rest parts and components with were still in stock.

3285 cc L4 Ford engine.
Performance: 50 bhp.
C. 1370 kg.
Production GAZ M-1 series: 1936-1943.
Production GAZ M1 Phaeton/Convertible Prototype: 1937.
Old Russian reg. number.

Photo taken from:
The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 to the Present, London, Ebury Press, 1973.
Original photo source: Autocar magazine, UK.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
(book was a gift from Karel, Dec. 2024).

Halfweg, Jan. 12, 2025.

© 2025 Sander Toonen Halfweg | All Rights Reserved

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When Siata Española merged with Motor Ibérica in 1970 the company inherited all Siata patents. Production continued under Siata brand name.
Early 1973 these minivans were put on the Spanish market as Ebro Siata 40, still with chassis and technics of a Seat 600.
Production of Seat 600 ceased in mid 1973, so that Ebro decided to use the Seat 850 platform and engine for their renamed 50S Furgoneta.
In 1974 production of the Seat 850 stopped and Ebro changed to the Seat 133 chassis and technics.
Note the Seat 850 rear lamp units.

Siata Española was a subsidiary of the Italian Siata. In Spain the company concentrated on special and light commercial vehicles on a Seat 600 chassis. This is in contrast to the Italian Siata, which mainly made small luxury cars based on the Fiat 600, and a minivan on a 600 Multipla platform.
Siata Española was active from 1960 to 1973 when it merged with Motor Ibérica.
In 1979 became Nissan Motors partly owner of Motor Ibérica. After 1986 when Nissan Motors bought the majority of the shares the brand names Avia and Ebro disappeared in favour of Nissan Motors Ibérica.

The original Siata 2850 Minivan was presented in 1967. Late 1970 Siata Española sold the Minivan patents to Motor Ibérica. Later production of this Minivan continued under the Avia and Ebro brand names.

843 cc rear engine (from Seat 850/Seat 133).
Production Siata 2850/3000 Special Furgoneta: 1967-1972.
Production Ebro Siata Minivan series: 1973-1979.
Production Ebro Siata 40: 1973.
Production Ebro Siata 50S: 1973-1979.

Photo comes from: Javier Navarro Fortuño, Nuestros Clásicos Industriales 1950-1990, Temporae, Madrid, 2021.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.

Halfweg, March 31, 2024.

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