History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

http://www.unf.edu/library/sc/images/earthawhite2652.jpg

 

http://www.thebloxidgetallygraph.com/patcollins.htm

 

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/maxim.html

 

Hiram Maxim and one of his steam engines, c.1884



http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/maxim.html

 

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/maxim.html

 

A Biddle powered by a Rochester Duesenberg (?)

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZxQBAFeFG6ZKVBuAT5U6vg

 

The Lincoln (drum headlights so not later than 1926) on the left is easy to pick but the hearse in the centre is a much less common S&S (Sayers and Scovill) - (with disc wheels maybe 1928-29?). On the right looks like a 1929 Essex coach and behind it maybe a 1928 Hudson (?). I guess taken not earlier than 1929.

 

There is a shot of one of these engines here - http://img.prewarcar.com/prewar/cars/Argonne_1920_Rochester-Duesenberg-engine_600.jpg I am no expert on these things but from the pictures I have seen this looks more like an Argonne than a Biddle. Both were built around the same time and used the same R-D engine. http://www.prewarcar.com/index.php?option=com_content&catid=34&id=3393&view=article&Itemid=100

 

Now that makes it interesting, indeed.

The link MrFire gave says that it's a 1918 Biddle
with a Duesy engine. They offered a Duesenberg
from 1917 on. But I think their mainstay engine
from 1915 to '22 or '23 was a 226-CID Buda four.
The file on that site also says that the pic was
taken at: "1944: Fifth Annual Fall outing," during
which the car won a class award. (Quote: "This car
won the judges' decision as the best Class C auto-
mobile based on the point system.")

 

Could it be that there was actually a direct LINK between the Biddle and the Argonne??? (Note: The Buda four mentioned below is the same displacement as the Buda mentioned in #6646.) Here's a brief quote, directly from Wikipedia:

"The Argonne was an American automobile manufactured by the Jersey City Machine Co. of Jersey City, NJ from 1919 to 1920; only 24 were produced before the company folded. The prototype car was a sports roadster with an aluminum body crafted by the Schutte Body Co. of Lancaster, PA. powered by a four-cylinder Buda engine. A Rochester-Duesenberg power plant could be had. Production models included a roadster on a 118-inch (3,000 mm) wheelbase, and some sources list an open Tourer model on a 132-inch (3,400 mm) wheelbase. The marque featured a sharply-pointed radiator similar to that found on the Austro-Daimler."

 

The only OctaAuto known to have been built was found about a year ago.

 

I believe the only Argonne known to exist is in the Fountainhead Collection in Alaska. Another reason to head North!

 

37, you are right. The Fountainhead in Fairbanks has a FAB collection of about 70 rare cars. They bill themselves as the FARTHEST NORTH major auto museum in the U.S., and rightly so.

But we're gonna have to remove this Argonne/Biddle discussion to a more appropriate thread . . . cause NEW pix of old cars are OT. Just pre-WWII pix here.

Why don't we remove these posts and take it over to the extinction thread? That way, we'll keep this thread pure to what was spec'd back on post 1.

 

http://petiteceinture.org/spip.php?...=1&decal=-5&debut_articles_tag=20&artpage=2-2

 

http://i25.tinypic.com/2lkr6uo.jpg

http://www.genealogie.com/v4/forums...-metiers-etudies-en-page-15-t887169-p143.html

 

http://www.genealogie.com/v4/forums...-metiers-etudies-en-page-15-t887169-p143.html

 

http://www.genealogie.com/v4/forums...-metiers-etudies-en-page-15-t887169-p143.html

 

http://www.genealogie.com/v4/forums...-metiers-etudies-en-page-15-t887169-p143.html

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_5.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_5.htm

 

http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a22000/6a22700/6a22778r.jpg

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_5.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_5.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_5.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_6.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_6.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_8.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_9.htm

 

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.ne...Grande-Guerre/juste-lieu-tard-sujet_920_9.htm