History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

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

 

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

 

Sure looks to be a 31 Chev Coupe. Quite the snappy dresser back then. Of course everybody dressed more formally back then.

 

Thanks for sharing the pic Bob- that has really nice lines!!!

 

Yes, sorry it is a color shot but I thought it would help with the Biddle vs Argonne posts.

 

An interesting shot in that they have completely cleared the road - and presumably replaced any bombed-out sections of the cobbles - but have left the rest of it as is. I guess that all of the clear-up was done by hand - no diggers and bulldozers in 1919. I wonder how long it took before the town was rebuilt.

 

Wonder if the trem "Cobbled up" came about from street repairs like this?

 

MrFire, the panoramic shot you posted has to stop people in their
tracks. It's good to remember the true scope of destruction the
technology of the time could wreak. The first war in which more
civilians than soldiers were killed. The pictures tell a mute but
powerful story, don't they?


What was left of the former Grande Palace in Cambrai by 1918


Cambrai


Church at Montfaucon


Vaux, France

 

Didn't know if this one has been shared or not- I saw it on the MTFCA site and immediately thought of this thread!

 

well i think it came from shoe makers...they were called cobblers,
they would cobble a solution real quick when your shoe got a hole or lost its sole...
but back on topic-
with out a road no way to fix the town..

 

Not picking nits here. Cobble stones were stones and had to be fitted carefully by hand. It was a pretty rough ride, but at least the road surface was manageable in bad weather and for more months of the year. Kind of a craft, really and took lots of time, patience and wooden mallots.

I believe what's in the photo were actually uniform, kiln-fired paving bricks from clay -- manufacturers and workmen alike just called them "pavers." Without going into boring detail, you first worked up your sub-base and laid a bed of sand. Once the pavers were neatly arranged, most water would drain to the sides (a road-building technique successfully advocated in England by Scotsman John McAdam).

This was a significant improvement over cobblestones, corduroy roads, etc., and was only supplanted in the U.S. -- gradually -- in the '20s and '30s when "asphaltic concrete" came into favor because it was faster and cheaper.

 

I think McAdam was responsible for today's standardized stone chip and bitumen surface, once known as macadamizing. Cambered roads too perhaps.

 

http://lexikon.freenet.de/Panhard_&_Levassor

 

http://mini.43.free.fr/3000/de dion poste.jpg

 

http://mini.43.free.fr/divers/de dion 1885.jpg

 

http://oldbike.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/1901-de-dion-tricycle.jpg

 

http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwiki/68/De_Dion_stoomdriewieler.GIF

 

http://www.clic-nature.fr/forum/up_image/bxl_de_dion_bouton.gif

 

http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/264762/1895-02_tricycle.jpg

 

http://www.passionautomobile.com/re...e-2008/tricycle-a-pretrole-de-dion-bouton.jpg

 

http://www.cyclorama.net/images/galleryImages/img144-lrg.jpg

 

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_history/bikes/lg/prospect_park_unicyclists.jpg

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__GU_oynHw2o/SQvLgQ4drtI/AAAAAAAAAmw/b6l_RsNjzVc/s400/hamlin-on-orient.jpg

 

http://www.tc-auctions.com/sale_pics/10-11-13_pre/5.jpg

 

http://1914warrick.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/royalmail.jpg?w=473&h=357

 

That looks like an AC, short of Auto Carrier with rare wire wheels. Later on Carrol Shelby but a Ford small block in one.............and the rest is history.

 

YUP, and most people today don't know his name. What's important is, we use his principles in roadbuilding.

 

That 8hp De Dion triciycle would be a handful - a real 'E-ticket' ride! It would be as fast as anything on the road in 1901.