Three cabinet card, each showing an early motor car.

As you are no doubt aware, identifying early motor vehicles can be a tricky exercise, given the lack of information availble for many of the early models. In many cases, these were short lived, on account of the speed with which the automobile evolved in a relatively short period of time.

Photographed by O. Gunckel of 7, rue Conscience, Malines [Flemish: Mechelen] in Belgium, province of Antwerp.