Possible 1904 British made Duryea Surrey

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PHOTO:
courtesy David Hales of England and The Horseless Carriage Gazette (Vol.54, No.6, November/December 1992).

David Hales is reasonably sure that the Duryea Surrey above was British made and your site host agrees.

Please note the following in above image:

  1. Extra long wheel base. The additional length was added between front and rear seat.
  2. The tiller appears to be separate from the throttel and clutch. This now gives us four different arrangements of controls on the 3-cylinder Duryeas.
  3. The large step plates are rectangular and are attached to the finders.

UPDATE 08-09-98:
Material (excerpts from letter) courtesy A.J. Gallagher, England

Dear Herman,

You are right, this is a british car. I have an illustration of the same car together with a full description of all the workings.

The illustration I have shows the middle (?) seat folded foward and the rear floor, between the doors, lifted up to show accessibility of mechanism. I have a separate illustration showing steering and control levers and a full write up. The control of the direction is effected by a horizontal lever, which automatically adjusts to the person of the driver, and can be turned up vertically in the center of the car out of the way for ease in entering the vehicle, or turned right over, and steering done from other seat. To turn to the left the bar is pushed forward, to turn to the right it is drawn back. The control of the speed is placed in the same hand which works the tiller, the handle grip being rotative, by means of a Bowden cable connected up with and working the lever which opens and closes the throttle. The Two control levers you can see in your photograph work in the following manner: the one on the right works the high and low gears, and slips the clutch when required, the other operates the reverse gear when moved rearwards, and when pushed forward puts on the double compensated brakes, which are held on by a ratchet.

Gal.