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1920 Custer Car Cootie Class: Cars, Custom — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2007-03-01 03:03 |
![[Image: wheels1118ma8.7640.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is201/wheels1118ma8.7640.jpg) ![[Image: wheels1120cm4.6461.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is80/wheels1120cm4.6461.jpg) |
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◊ 2007-03-01 03:35 |
Reminds me of the scene in "the gods must be crazy" where they were towing the dead land rover home. /vehicle_13806-Barford.html  |
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◊ 2007-07-23 13:13 |
No idea, really, but it does remind me of this other battery-powered "miniature" car (a 1912-13 Cadillac) built for publicity purposes by Frederick Stanley Benett, who was the London Cadillac importer in tne early part of last century : http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_to2/t12elecc.jpg http://www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_to4/tBennet.jpg |
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◊ 2017-03-19 16:14 |
XE 21 = autumn 1920. |
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◊ 2018-10-15 19:54 |
Aside from the placement of the badge (likely due to the large license plate) this is a Cootie, a juvenile car built by the Custer Specialty Company of Dayton, Ohio. A picture of a very similar car can be seen on page 375 of the Standard Catalogue of American Automobiles. The Cootie was distributed in the US by FAO Schwartz in electric and gasoline versions. The company was founded in 1920 so it would be one of the first cars. But how do we list it? I think this is a case where "Cootie" is the designation, like Chevrolet and Geo. Custer and Cootie are listed as two different makes in the book. Link to "lh6.googleusercontent.com" https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71xDS1ZaBZL._SX736_.jpg -- Last edit: 2018-10-15 19:58:14 |
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◊ 2018-10-15 19:58 |
We have one Custer... --> /vehicle_159869-Custer-Car.html |
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◊ 2018-10-15 20:21 |
I would list as 1920 Custer (Car) Cootie unless someone objects. -- Last edit: 2018-10-15 20:22:53 |
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◊ 2018-10-15 20:23 |
This --> https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71xDS1ZaBZL._SX736_.jpg shows, that Cootie was a nickname. |
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◊ 2018-10-15 20:25 |
Apparently Custer had an unclear connection with British maker Lockwood Motors, who made similar vehicles. However, outside of allcarindex and the German Wiki, you can't find any info. It's possible that Lockwood was simply the importer for Custer in Britain. Custer Car should be one make and not a make and model. -- Last edit: 2018-10-15 20:25:55 |
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◊ 2018-10-15 20:30 |
"According to the Standard Catalog: "Custer Electric – Dayton, Ohio – (1920-42) – L. Luzern Custer purportedly built an experimental electric car in 1898, but it was not until 1920 that he began his Custer Specialty Company in Dayton for the production of electric vehicles. The Custer was built as a Cootie (children's car), Cabbie (miniature railroad). Chair (automotive wheelchair), Carrier (factory truck) and Coupe (two-passenger city car). Of all varieties, the most significant in production was the automotive wheelchair, which was doubtless to Luzern Custer's personal satisfaction because he happened to be an invalid himself. The Cootie was perhaps the second most produced of the Custer vehicles. As for the Coupe, it weighed 550 pounds, was not much longer than it was high (78 inches versus 62), was rather cute, and might have been a marvelous proposition for crowded metropolitan areas except for one thing; its cruising speed was eight miles per hour. The Custer Specialty Company was in business a long time in Dayton (into the 1960s), but no more than a handful (and possibly only one) of the Coupes was ever built."" from: Link to "forums.aaca.org" The Cootie could be the model name in fact... |
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◊ 2018-10-15 21:03 |
As the picture is apparently of a street scene in London, the car may have been badged as a Lockwood, but would almost certainly be an imported vehicle. My 1982 Georgano’s says: - “Lockwood’s Garage, Eastbourne Sussex. The Lockwood was a miniature car advertised by its makers as ‘the smallest car in the world’. It was primarily intended for use by children.” A similar entry appears in A to Z of Cars of the 1920s by Nick Baldwin. Possibly Nick nicked it. I am not intending to challenge your identification, far from it, but a great many cars were imported at that time by agents, renamed, and claimed to be British built. Xenophobia is not a new phenomenon. |
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