1926 Trapshooting Video

[Bill Murphy]

'25 Franklin sedan had the rounded hood and suicide doors front and back. By '26, the rounded hood was gone. They were air cooled.

[Alligator]

Bill, Thanks! Yes I did ask about Eyler on the Ithaca forum as Walt gave me info that he was the consignee on my Ithaca Victory Grade Knick on 9/14/25. It must have been a backup for something else as it is virtally unfired. I was able to find reference to him and his son in a 1930 Baltimore city directory but nothing else. It came to me from North Carolina supposedly from a grandson of the original owner, who told the dealer I got it from that it had been under a bed or something for years. I don't have, and can't seem to get his name from the dealer, but then we all know how these storys go. Thanks again, Lee!!!

[Alligator]

Re: The car: There isn't any chance it may have been a Fox Automobile is there? The pix of same in Mac's book look kind of like it, but then all the old sedans seem to look alike to me. After all I didn't come along till '38. Lee.

[Bill Murphy]

Tom Kidd's Fox car is pictured, I believe, in the DGJ index in the article on Tom. I don't know if the article is in Volume 1 or Volume 2. I believe the over under in the video is a Merkel or Simpson. I got one kind of a look at the reflection of the extension ribs at about 5:59 or 6:00. However, the reflection could have been the brass of his shell.

[Alligator]

Bill : Agreed on the Merkel/Simpson. I have had in years past, had examples of both of that vintage by dates and proof marks and I think VL&D and Antoine and Detmold were importers for both in that era as perhaps The Shoverling and Daly group. Ineteresting!!!! Lee