I took this photograph at the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1984 which began in very wet conditions.
I no longer have the programme
of this event, but I made a note at the time that it was a 1912 Stoewer Tourer
and one of these cars took part in the 1992 run where the only information
about it in the programme is that it was entered Kevin Bann of Fence, Burnley,
and that it ran in the class for cars from 1905 to 1918 of over 20hp RAC
rating. The Stoewer company was founded by Emil and Bernhard Stoewer in Stettin
(then in Germany) and produced cars from 1899 to 1940. At the end of the Second
World War that part of Germany was occupied by the Russians who closed the
factory down, and in 1945 Stettin became part of Poland and was renamed
Szczecin. I've been unable to find out any more information about this
particular car.
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