This Christmas post card scene of 1910 shows a young lady snug and warm in a glass-enclosed tonneau. Outside, a stooped flower vendor in a white woolly coat offers her roses. The automobile has a right-hand drive and square brass carriage lights and brass horn with rubber bulb. Brass posts support a small roof over the driver's seat, but there is no windshield to divert the cold. The car design is not a figment of the artist's imagination. A similar sketch appears, almost to the last detail, in the Complete Encyclopedia of Motor Cars, 1885-1968 with this description: Four cylinder engine, Borderel Cail, 1907. Made by Societe-Cail, famous locomotive builders, who made one of the first locomotives in northern France, in 1846. Kansas City Star, December 25, 1973.
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