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I know you are asking for 1930’s but here is a little support from Norway of a 1915 modell 38. Look at the headlamps – English? or Marchal?

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It was nice to learn that they were restoring the building instead of tearing it Down.

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I visited the plant last fall with some friends – me to right.

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Here is another one.

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It is over a year since Eric Rosenau’s passing. From that moment I have tried to find this photo. Today I had luck. It is from 1990 and I had just installed the engine in the chassis and fired it up for the first time since the Pierce was a wreck. There was something that did not work satisfactory. Accidentally at the same time Eric Rosenau was visiting Norway and Oslo and called me to have a look at my project. He at once found a wrong adjustment in the choke system…! After that the Pierce engine was running smothly.

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To all my friends in PAS.

I want you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Pierce-Arrow Year.

Oivind from Norway.

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A week ago we did have a nice white winter weather. Today is all the snow disappeared, now with 47 F. degree!

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Here is the car!

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Always Nice to visit the Pierce-Arrow tent. Thanks to the PAS entusiasts!

Oivind in Norway.

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Greg,

Thank you for many good advices. I will of course first check out the spring in the lower left corner. Report will be made. I will wait untill the driving season is over!

Oivind.

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Thank you for the advice, Greg!

In fact I have thought about that but I have been a little bit anxious to open it. Could it be that all the parts inside will fall apart? At Hershey I have earlier bought different types of door lock springs so most likely I have the correct one (I hope).

May be I should take that as a winter project?

Here is enclosed a photo of the inside of the door lock.

Oivind

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Hi Ed,

Norway calling… Many years back when I restored my 1930 model B I bought a set of 1933 radiator shutters. I thought I could convert them to my car. In the meanwhile I found a correct set for my car. Nothing is broken but there are some surface rust on a couple of the shutters. If you can use them give me a message by e-mail. I can also mail you more photos (details) if you like! I will visit Hershey in october so I can eventually bring them with me.

Oivind.

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What a coincidence!

Some friends and I had this day a commission of driving some company empoyee from an exhibition to their hotel. At the same time as we were on the move an american lady came running up to my Pierce asking if they could take a picture. Her husband was shooting a couple of photos of his wife along the car. She told her name (which I did not catch…) and told me that her grandfather had worked at the Pierce-Arrow factory as a leader. The traffic was heavy and I felt the pressure to drive away.

The hotel you see on the photo is were your President Barack Obama stayed when he visited Oslo in 2011.

The world is small…!

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Winter race in 1922

Here is more contribution to motorsport. The first race in Sweden was arranged on february 12, 1922 outside Stockholm (the Capitol of Sweden) by the Royal Automobile Club. A vinter competition so to say! Among the 10.000 people who came to watch the race, was King Gustav V, his brother Crownprince Gustav Adolf and Prince Lennart.

29 cars were participating at the 2.6 km (1.62 miles) long track. Start No. 22 was James Hofgaard with his Pierce Arrow from 1919/20, model «51» I believe. The photo shows Hofman in a dramatic curve. No. 23 was also a Pierce-Arrow belonged to Ivar Akerman. As far as I know his car was from 1921. I have not succeded to find the results of the «snow race».

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Thanks to Ed for the photos of the record taking Pierce. I am very interessted in motorsport from the good old days – road rally, rally cross, ice race, hill climbing etc. I also use to tease about Pierce-records with my Bugatti friends…

Here is a photo I found on the net. It shows Ab Jenkins with the V-12 Pierce-Arrow (in Buffalo?). As I understand Ab used a stock car which he picked up at the factory, made som adjustments and drove himself the long distance from Buffalo to the Salt Desert with the intention to go for a speed record.

Could anybody confirm that?

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It must be really nice to own an old family car, once bought by your father or grandfather. My father had in the thirties a great Mercedes-Benz (320?). I tried to track the car but I did never found it. My assumption is that the germans took it when they occupied Norway in 1940 as they did with many cars.

My Pierce was discovered in the beginning of the sixties on a shore in one of the fjords (photo). The discoverer did not take it becourse it was to bad as a project. Fortunately he shot some photos and showed them to a friend of mine. After some years he picked up the Pierce project and sold it to me in 1980. I have now had this car for 33 years. Of course it did take «a couple» of year before I could drive it…

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Roger,

Thank you for the information of the cars sold to Russia. I will try to find out more in this matter.

I will not go into a discussion of the year of the Studebakers. I do not have enough knowledge of that brand. In fact the photo was one of more from the exhibition in Copenhagen in may 1930. Could it be som left overs from 1929?

I started this discussion with the photo of an exhibition. Here is another one – from Paris in 1929. Sorry, you can not see any Pierce-Arrows, only the sign.

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Anthony,

We have had a nice cold winther so far without to much snow, round 10-12 inch. deep. The last 14 days we have had much sunshine. Perfect for skiing and driving. The problem is that they are using to much salt on the roads.

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In February 1925 he was a competitor in an ice race on a lake some 30 miles outside Oslo. On some places the ice was not strong enough and the heavy Pierce went through the ice and was lying on the bottom , some 10 feet deep. Mr. Oppen was saved and not hurt at all – only wet…

Some days later the car was saved (photo) by building a wood crane over the hole in the ice. The Pierce could then be winched up. In the official registration papers of the Pierce there was a note that the car later was sold in Oslo. I have never found out who was the buyer.

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The owner of this 1914 Pierce-Arrow was an active participant of motorsports. He begun with motorcycles. He owned both Henderson and Indian. He acquired the Pierce in 1919 – after the WW-1. So I believe this was a used car – from France?

In 1921 the owner, Herman Oppen, participated in the first road rally in Norway after the war. It had a distance of 580 kilometer (362 miles) and they were driving over the night. In addition to the road rally he also was active in hill climbing competition with the car. The photo is from the start of the rally in 1921.

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In Scandinavia both Danmark and Norway did always have the same system as you have in US – driving on the right side of the road. In Sweden they drove the cars on the left side as they still do in England. In 1967 Sweden switched the side. In those days there was a joke in Norway before the swede switched over: They tested out the right hand system first by trying buses and trucks drive on the right side…

Many manufactorers of cars produced cars with right hand steering in the beginning, as also Pierce-Arrow did. The customer in fact did not have any choice. See the enclosed photo of an old Pierce in Norway.

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