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Pierce-Arrow limo, with the distinctive headlights attached to the fenders

New-York Tribune. May 24, 1921, page 1, top of col 5, with photo of Harding to the right.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-05-24/ed-...
has a description of the drive to Hoboken and other people in the President's car.

"Colonel Sherrill, military aide to the President, and Colonel F, W. Galbraith, commander of the American Legion, rode in the President's automobile."

LoC has other photos of F.W. Galbraith
- www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016844942/
seems compatible with the gentleman sitting in front of Harding.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Galbraith
"Frederick William Galbraith, Jr. (May 6, 1874 – June 9, 1921) was the second national commander of The American Legion from 1920 to 1921. He was a highly decorated World War I veteran who was instrumental in helping to make the Legion the largest and most powerful war veterans' association in the United States."

Sherrill could be Clarence O. Sherrill, as in
- hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.03779
in uniform behind driver..

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U.S. President William Howard Taft seated at back right of his automobile. He bought this automobile between his election and his innauguration to use as his official car; it was a 1909 White Motor Company Model M 40 horse-power steam 7 passenger touring car. I've read that the car is preserved at the Heritage Plantation Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The chauffer is presumbably Taft's driver George Robinson. Another Bain photo of the automobile, without Taft

That building in the background is the same building pictured in the G.V.L. Meyer photo.

This automobile is a Pierce-Arrow, not a White steamer. They have very different shaped hoods and radiators, and the name "Pierce-Arrow is visible on the rear hub cap of this one.

Technogeo: Yes, you're quite right. Since my earlier comment, I discovered that Taft ordered 2 Whites AND 2 Pierce-Arrows before taking office. hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.03212 shows one of the White steamers; this is one of the Pierce-Arrows. I think the other Pierce-Arrow is shown at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.03213 .

To continue the conversation about the make of the vehicle. The White House Historical Association (whitehousehistory.org) has an image of this vehicle, it is described as a "White House Pierce Arrow 66 A. P. Touring Car" Source: Motor Cars Come to the White House: Taft Administration. White House Historical Association (www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/motor-cars-come-to-th...) Picture 5 of 6.

Possibly on the same trip as www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2969699814/ He would have been Edward VIII, but abdicated to marry Mrs. Simpson, and lived most of his life as the Duke of Windsor.

Very well spotted swang. His Royal Highness is wearing the same checked cap in both photographs, and you will also note Count Zeppelin appears in both photographs wearing a white peaked cap. The Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom published a journal called Flight. (They may still do so.) In the April 5, 1913 issue of Flight on page 394 there appears this tidbit: "The Prince of Wales in Germany. During the visit of the Prince of Wales to Stuttgart last Saturday, it was anticipated that the Zeppelin Z4 would visit the city during her duration trial, but the Royal visitor had to be disappointed.The Prince went on to Friedrichschafen on Sunday and on the following day, under the guidance of Count Zeppelin, made an inspection of the works. It had been hoped that the Prince would have been able to enjoy a trip in the Z4, but this idea had to be abandoned on account of the squally weather." [ ref. www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913 - 0388.html ] Therefore, this photograph was taken on Monday March 31, 1913 outside the Zeppelin works at Friedrichschafen. Additionally, Here is the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichschafen: www.zeppelin-museum.de/ And here is a photograph of Count Zeppelin in his favoured white cap: www.zf.com/corporate/en/company/tradition/company_history... But who is hoding the umbrella and standing in the car beside the Prince of Wales? Turns out that he was Professor Hermann Georg FIEDLER. He was Professor of German at Oxford University and accompanied the Prince on his trip to Germany in 1913. See a photograph of them together on that trip here (at plate no. 43): books.google.com.au/books?id=MCxyoqsvYmYC&pg=PR27&... "The Prince of Wales inthe Easter and summer vacations of 1913 when an Oxford freshman. Hermann Fiedler, who had been Professor of German since 1907, accompanied the Prince on both occasions." [ books.google.com.au/books?id=MCxyoqsvYmYC&pg=PR27&... ]

Great sleuthing, lifeasdaddy!!

einfach wahnsinn! im Bild rechts mit dem weißem Hut ist Ferdinand, Graf von Zeppelin zu sehen.

I don't recognize this car, but can say whoever tagged it as "Model T" is certainly wrong. Ford Model Ts are quite recognizable if you've seen a number of them, and were smaller cheap utilitarian vehicles -- not the sort of thing used for a visiting Prince.