Perhaps Teddy saw it all. UPDATE: 1930 Chrysler

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At first sight there’s nothing really special about this photograph. Just a girl and her dog posing with a 1931 Plymouth. But there’s always a story behind the picture… In the 1930's Mr. Sonneveld, one of the managers of the Van Nelle factory (leonardfrank.com), built himself a house that was going to be an example of modern architecture, just as the factory. Nowadays the house is a museum, dedicated to the Sonneveld family. At first we thought it was Mr. Sonneveld’s wife Gésine posing with their dog, but after careful examination of the photograph we think this isn’t the case. Gésine was born in 1882 and the photograph was taken around 1932/1933. So we think it is not the wife, but the daughter, also named Gésine or Gé for short, with her terrier, named Teddy. But mother Gésine also has her claim to fame because she was the first woman in the Dutch city of Rotterdam to drive her own car, a Packard two-seater. Unfortunately we don’t have a photograph of that car, but local history has it that she had a run into a horse tram. And to a very old age Gésine would always be adamant that the accident was the tram driver’s fault. True or not? Maybe only Teddy saw what really happened. (RB)
UPDATE by both Mark Dawber and Kit Foster both correcting us that the depicted car is a 1930 Chrysler, possibly a type 70.

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