History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Vintage Postcard 1905 Maxwell

 

1906 Buick Model F

 

How popular were Maxwell cars back in the day? seems the name popped up quite a bit in my vintage photo searches.

it could just be I notice it more since I recently bought a plastic Maxwell pull toy from the 50's.

 

Vintage Postcard 1907 Minerva

 

Jack Benny had one. LOL Actually, they were very popular and still are. I just checked the current Horseless Carriage Club Of America Directory and there is a page and a half listed, about 6 columns worth.

 

1908 Chalmers

 

1908 Buick

 

Photo Postcard RARE 1908 Royal Tourist

 

1921 Overland - promotional stunt.

 

Maxwell Motor Cars

 

Courtesy of Don O'Brien on FlickR

Don took this photo in March of 1941 in Perry, Georgia. His typed data on the negative envelope he found in an old filing case says "View of old Maxwell in front of Standard Oil station. Graflex Super Panchro Press, developed DK-50." (He must have been into recording stuff back then.) He took a family trip through the south during spring break that year. His brother, then 12, is in the photo.

 

Where whiskey dents come from...

 

1920 Maxwell Town Car

 

Jim, thanks for ID-ing this NAG car. Though a lot of guys are like you, it still seems to me that eight out of ten cars (pre-1930) go by on here without one word said to accompany the pic. Me, I'm pretty awful at 1920 and back, and I'm not too keen from 1930 on back. So, for my part, I'd surely appreciate it if the posters could either state the make & year, or at least give a WAG of their own. I think it would make the site (thread) far, far more valuable -- a resource, almost.

 

Twin 6
Thanks, I know a lot more now.
Art

 

Wow - thank you SUNROOFCORD - not just for taking the photo 69 years ago, but for sharing it with everyone on the HAMB. A+

 

Well, thanks to Kume in New Zealand, we have a pic of Jack
Benny actually DEMONSTRATING how damn good Maxwells
were! LOL (Yeah, it was a joke.)

 

Okay, okay, here is REALLY Jack Benny's Maxwell. There's
a crank up front, so it couldn't be too much after 1912?

 

Jack's thriftiness shows!

 

Twin posted this . . . and I caught hell on the other thread for even
discussing a pic where a guy was holding his kid while smoking
a cigarette -- in 1955! Where's the justice, I ask??? LOL

 

Hey Twin, did you notice the right hand steering on that Maxwell?

 

This photo is from a stereo view, but the date isn't right for the car. It's a Packard and while they used similar bodies for several years in that era, that type of cowl light was never used in '12 (or '13 for that matter). Back to the recent topic of when cars changed from RHD to LHD. You can flip this image so the car would appear as RHD, but in '13 when Packard introduced LHD on their model 38, the cowl lights were different from what you see here. The car is either a '14 or '15 Packard, but the photos says campaign of 1912. Either the publisher was wrong, or else the campaign lasted a long time!

 

No justice for Jimi, and to think that I posted the photo and you took the heat! That isn't you in this photo is it? The little guy looks like he's clutching a grenade...

 

Here you go.

 

Praga truck - 1935/40:

 

Praga ND - 1938:

 

This is a 1912 Maxwell Model AC (2 cyl)

 

1939 Wanderer pullman:







a 1937 Wanderer Pullman:

 

1927 Praga Picollo:



http://sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz/cml/desky/deska0449.html

 

Laurin and Klements (?) (above) and a Praga