Motor heads

Anyone recognize this "M" on a pressure cap?

 

Terry,

I have been looking but coming up blank. Here is a blog with some links for identifying you might want to check out.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/hood-ornament-identifiaction-guide.html

 

These keep throwing my thoughts off

 

Perhaps a personalized cap for the owner......?

 

I got it - a Maxwell! Gee, I have looked off and on since this was posted with no luck. Then this morning I was going through some of my grandfather's genealogy papers when I remembered my mother saying he had own some Franklin and Maxwell automobile stock that he took quite a beating on with the stock market collaspe in '29. On googling Maxwell came up with the following.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Maxw...t-1914-1915-1916-1917-1918-1919-/181162015050

--- Susan

 

Terry, here is a restored 1915 Maxwell with the same ornament. You have to work through the pictures/slides to about the 14th picture that is a close-up of the cap with the M.

http://www.grautogallery.com/vehicles/2010/1915-Maxwell-Model-25-Touring

I was able to capture the pic of the cap using capture on my iPad. Have inserted the pic below. I wanted to find a pic of the cap actually on a Maxwell for am leery of eBay auction descriptions.

--- Susan

 

Thank you. I thought he was just a secret agent. I always preferred 99.

 

Gee, am I slow today. Terry, I bet I looked at your reply a good couple of minutes before I could figure out secret agent and 99 - Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 of Get Smart. I would not be surprised that in a 100,ooo to 300,000 years someone will open a time capsule and out will fall segments if that series resulting in the 1960s being called 2nd Neanderthal Period.

--- Susan