[moralfibre]

The Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi inaugurated the Nehru Science Centre in Bombay on November 11, 1985.Photo shows the Shri Gandhi going round the Vintage Car Exhibition.

Any idea what car this is?

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by moralfibre

Any idea what car this is?

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I think this picture was shared earlier somewhere - the car is the 1903 Humberette of the Mallya collection.

[moralfibre]

Originally Posted by karlosdeville

I think this picture was shared earlier somewhere - the car is the 1903 Humberette of the Mallya collection.

Maybe this car?

Source: http://forum.santabanta.com/showthre...Icons-Of-India

[karlosdeville]

Originally Posted by moralfibre

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Maybe this car?

Source: http://forum.santabanta.com/showthre...Icons-Of-India

Nope, this is his DeDion, also featured earlier in this thread.

[moralfibre]

Maharana Chhatrasinhji driving his Wolseley 6 hp 1903-04 car in Rajpipla. Seated by his side is Governor of Bombay Presidency Charles Cochrane Baillie, Lord Lamington. This photograph was published in The Automotor Journal of 28th October 1905.

Source: Blog Link of Indra Vikram Singh, great-grandson of Maharana Chhatrasinhji of Rajpipla. Do read up the sheer detail in his post.

[moralfibre]

Nawab Sir Salimullah driving his Dechamps

Nawab Sir Salimullah driving his Dechamps Tonneau model 1902 made in Belgium 1904

Source: Link.

EDIT: The car would be "Deschamps"

[Vintage Khan]

Greetings,

A pictorial book is being compiled on the vintage & classic automobiles of the Nizams and their Princes, due for release around Cartier event in Feb 2017, coninciding with the Golden Jubilee of the present Nizam Mukarram Jah's coronation in 1967.

May I request for kind support in the form of information, inputs, photos and records of all things Hyderabad (automobile related - like photos, invoices, period adverts etc). You can share via email or mobile.

Pls PM to assist.

Thanks

[KartikeyaL]

Apologies if this has been shared before

[KartikeyaL]

Sir Arthur Lawley (1860-1932) Governor of Madras (1906-1911) and Lady Lawley alighting out of the car bearing M.N 18 (Madras Nilgiris)

As per wikipedia

Lawley inaugurated the Giffard School block of the Women and Children's Hospital in Egmore in October 1911.

Source


The hospital as it stands today (Google image)

[travancore]

Originally Posted by KartikeyaL

Sir Arthur Lawley (1860-1932) Governor of Madras (1906-1911) and Lady Lawley alighting out of the car bearing M.N 18 (Madras Nilgiris)

As per wikipedia


Source
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Sir Arthur Lawley on a shikar trip to my maternal family estate at Nilambur, Malabar.

The photo is dated 1908, the car is a Daimler (looks much newer then)




And a ferry crossing of the Chali River on the same trip.

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Nehru at Nilambur, 50 years later.....

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vintag...ml#post2808257

[KartikeyaL]

Cross posting

Some early cars can be seen in this circa 1910 picture from Rawalpindi, British India

circa 1910: Spectators at a military parade in Rawalpindi, Punjab province (Photo by Sean Sexton/Getty Images)

[KartikeyaL]

From the Graphic, 1907, illustration of a car versus a tonga in Assam

[KartikeyaL]

Early cars from Madras Presidency

[KartikeyaL]

CTI High School, Barah Pather, Sialkot posted this on their Facebook page

Evangelism by auto in India. Dr. Gordon, at the wheel, Dr. McCounelee and the Rev. Mallu Chand, as they appear when itinerating.

[KartikeyaL]

DD 114 is seen at the Kingsway railway station Delhi, during the coronation Durbar, 1911