Wednesday, November 11, 2020

1912 Russo-Balt S24-30 Series 7 with a four-seat Grand Tourismo body on a No. 14 chassis. (thanks Steve!)

  https://foto-history.livejournal.com/1226753.html

It was built by the Russo-Baltic Waggon Factory in Riga, Latvia (Russian Empire), with the office and another factory being in St. Petersburg.   Also known as Russo-Baltique, the company was founded in 1874 and began building cars in 1909.  They were the most successful pre-revolution  manufacturer.  In 1922 the factory was moved to Moscow where civilian automobile production ended in 1923, while armored car production continued until 1941 when the factory was evacuated to Kazan and began producing aircraft.  The company had also built Igor Sikorsky designed aircraft (they hired him when he was 22) from 1912 to 1917.

4 comments:

  1. The photo shows a German car and it does not look like a Russo-Balt

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  2. Russo-Balt with a Gran Turismo body looked like this https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015084674681&view=1up&seq=68

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    1. when you want to dispute the book that identifies this, quit being "unknown" and get schooled

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    2. In this photo, count Jozef Potocki in a Mercedes 55/60 HP car. http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=aaz&datum=19090704&seite=2&zoom=60

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