by the license plate, I'd say it is a European car, probably in Austria or Germany; best guess is late 40's, early 50's
Enlarging the image, no wrong hand side steering wheel is to be detected. So, Brit and Ireland can get ruled out. The guy's wearing his trousers up to his manboobs. So, I'd say northern European. The best clues are the plates which could get compared with other European vehicles and the vehicle itself which has its exhaust manifold on the left side. Here's an older Austrian plate. Like the one on that unidentified panel truck or sedan delivery, it also has a letter beginning 5 digits of which the following four are numbers:
I think it's 30's-very early 40 too. I think the "tail light" is in combo with the tag light above the license plate. No directional signals though. My Dad's 35 Ford had one tail light as well.
Now that you mention it there might be a light just above the license plate. I thought the 73-77 Malibu Wagon had some of the worst placed tail lights ever (in the bumper? sheesh) but this looks worse.
In the US at that time, a red running light with a clear lens to illuminate the license plate was required on the left side of the vehicle. Hand signals were required for turns and stopping. We still had to learn them in 1962 when I took driver's ed in high school. I suppose they are still legal to use today, but few would know what they meant. They'd be too busy watching their cell phones.
We had to learn them in 1982 as well. I'm with you - today if you hand signaled a left turn, people would think you were pointing at something; if you signaled a right turn, they'd think you were waving at someone; and if you signaled stop, just that you had your arm hanging out the window.
I still at least use the left-turn hand signal when merging to a highway or freeway, as I have long arms and only an idiot would mistake that for 'pointing something out.' Of course, if some dolt went to use hand signals while on a cell phone, they'd drop it....
I was born in 1991 and I got my license in 2012. Hand signals were still in the Pennsylvania DMV manual then.
Hi! Thanks! It is/was a car from Sweden. And just got the registration card. Ford E 493 C 1952 34 hp 4cyl
wow,that is great that you not only found out what and where it is from, but the actual registration card? How did that work? Would be interested in the process. Cheers
Swedes didn't start driving on the right side of the road, until 1967. When I lived there, yhearing news of persons driving on the wrong side of the road wasn't seldom. My joke for them was always to comment on them playing Swedish Roulette http://realscandinavia.com/this-day-in-history-swedish-traffic-switches-sides-september-3-1967/