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Napier Motor Cars c1908 & 1913

Depicting an open-drive Limousine with coachwork by Audinot et Cie of Neuilly sur Seine and sporting-tourer Comprising a Coachbuilder’s enlarged photograph in profile depicting a fine limousine on chain-drive chassis with open-drive coachwork by Audinot et Cie of Neuilly sur Seine, unmounted, captioned in pencil frontis and verso together with an enlarged copy-negative photograph of a chauffeur-driven sporting-tourer Napier with lady passengers c1918. Largest 30cm x 39cm. Click here for more details and images

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2022-08-05
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