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What retro activity did you get up to today?

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Reply 30020 of 30023, by RandomStranger

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I don't know if it's good for this to be here or not. Only tech adjacent. It's probably better suited topic for Milliways, but at the same time definitely retro activity.

I started scanning the old family photos left after my grandparents. There were some from when my great grandparents moved to the US some time in the 1920s for a couple of years (well great gramps and great granny separated and she moved home).
Could someone identify that piece of retro tech great granny gets out of for me please?

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Reply 30021 of 30023, by matze79

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Could be a Ford Model A

Reply 30022 of 30023, by BitWrangler

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RandomStranger wrote on Today, 09:04:
I don't know if it's good for this to be here or not. Only tech adjacent. It's probably better suited topic for Milliways, but […]
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I don't know if it's good for this to be here or not. Only tech adjacent. It's probably better suited topic for Milliways, but at the same time definitely retro activity.

I started scanning the old family photos left after my grandparents. There were some from when my great grandparents moved to the US some time in the 1920s for a couple of years (well great gramps and great granny separated and she moved home).
Could someone identify that piece of retro tech great granny gets out of for me please?

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I am going to guess at a Durant Motor Corporation, Star Cars (brand/line) Improved Four Coach.

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 30023 of 30023, by RandomStranger

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Both look similar, but I couldn't find the exact same looking model. Anyway, I found 2 Christmas postcards which imply I knew it wrong all my life. One is addressed to Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada, though I have great granny's passport so I know they definitely went through the US to get there. The other has no address, it might have been sent in an envelope. One mentions my grandma's elder sister being home schooled because the school only teaches English, half the post card was written by her. They ended up much further west than I imagined. I believed they were both born here, not in the US or apparently Canada. I wonder what happened with great gramps after they separated. Aldersyde seems to be small community, but this was a century ago.

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