History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Cool car - any idea what it is? I think #1347 is an Auburn.

 

Yes, back to serious business. These folks at the Studebaker garage don't monkey around, that's for sure.

 

Issuing a ticket.....

 

Well, no one can stay too serious for too long. I'm not quite sure what they were trying to do, but it looked like they were having fun. During the heat wave we just had, looking at this helped cool me down. Necktie optional for winter riding?

 

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You maybe right, it does look like one???

 

I was watching a documentary the other day about the Albert Kahn photo Archive the other day. It was really interesting. He was a wealthy banker and philanthropist who commissioned a bunch of photographers to travel all around the world and take archival photos. It was Really impressive! Some of the earliest color photos from the early 1900's!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(banker)

here's a cool WWI shot in france:

 

Workin on the Railroad

MTFCA Photo

 

This photograph, taken between 1905 and 1910, shows the Little River Ralroad company's first railcar. It was designed by Joe Murphy and nicknamed the "Little River Flivver.' (The photo is from the collection of Ora Jones.)

If you look closely, you can see that the car's frame has been supplemented by I-beams and other supports. It is possible that there is a leaf spring directly under the radiator, and it almost looks like a belt drive is going to the rear axle.

Sadly, this clever adaptation eventually perished in a collision with steam locomotive #110, which was a lot more solid.

 

Not much is known about this vehicle, except that it went into service about the same time the "Flivver" was lost, and ran until 1920. (Again this photo is from the collection of Ora Jones.)

The "bus-style" windows seem to raise and lower like those of contemporary passenger cars and trolleys. It looks like a chain drive is going to the rear wheel, but we can't be entirely certain where the engine is. Note the steps and lamps on the rear and the headlight on the front.

This vehicle may be unique among standard gauge railroads, although a number of narrow gauge railroads built similar contraptions.

 

A six-wheel Briscoe

 

A Chrysler Roadster

 

A full-sized Studebaker Bus

 

While gasoline engines wouldn't be pulling real trains for a very long time, they could pull a handful of people over a mountain ridge cheaply and safely. And, as the photo of the D. H. Tipton inspection car to the right shows, when you need to turn them around, most of the early railcars were light enough to be picked up by four or five strong men.

Not to mention that riding them must have been a lot of fun!

 

Royal Northwest Mounted Police.

 

Anyway to make the pics alittle bigger? They're ssooo small on this thread and I love this thread.

 

Neat pic. I think Cannuck will agree...they look like a couple of 1915-16 McLaughlins (of course).

 

Very cool. for what its worth, the railcar was built from a 1912 Model T Ford, making the photo 1912 or newer. The body has removeable front doors a feature of 1912 only T's.

 

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A Scripps-Booth going through an unusual test of some kind, in Norway. Or, has the driver been sampling what's in the strange bottles on the running board?

 

Scroll over the pic and click on it - it should open up and be in larger format for you to view.
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Thanks EG for the correction. It's always good to have a more knowledgable person correct the information that comes from a website put up by the less knowledgable. It's how we all learn.

I saw a "T' railroad inspection car at a show yesterday which made me want to learn more about them.

 

Pierce Arrow track car. Elsewhere on the HAMB, there may actually be a thread devoted to these rigs.

 

Another photo for Cannuck...

 

New Packards on display in Paris, c. 1928. The cars are nice, but I want to know more about the little model partly visible at lower right.

 

Believed to be Johnston-Pierce-Arrow in Philadelphia, circa 1933 Pierce-Stanhope on left

 

Great shot, an old "then and now" photo. I have to wonder if the Stanhope survived the scrap drives in WW2. I know several have survived to the present.