History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

The Luciani brothers' 'camion a vapor' (I couldn't read the rest of the site) is a British Sentinel - quite an early one as it looks to be on iron tyres which would limit its speed to well under 10mph. http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/sentinel.htm

 

http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/6790/42132.html?1112984310

 

http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Sentinel%20boiler/

 

Later model Sentinals:



http://www.photoart.plus.com/Landships/Sentinel-Waggon-MoM1918.jpg

 

Foden - without rubber



http://www.svvs.org/links5/1911_Foden_Steam_Lorry.jpg

 

http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2008/08/steam-trucks-on-biglorrybloghi.html

 

http://beejaysbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/2009/03/ben-barnes-sons-coach-proprietors.html

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Mann_letterhead.JPG/800px-Mann_letterhead.JPG

 

1938 Maxim 500 gpm pumper had a 1000 gallon water tank



Falmouth's Engine 5 500 gpm / 100 gallon 1938 Pumper

http://www.capecodfd.com/PAGES Special/Maxims2.htm#Top

 

Falmouth Ladder 2 1938 Maxim city service
(Howie Smith collection)

http://www.capecodfd.com/PAGES Special/Maxims5.htm#Top
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http://www.radnorfire.com/historic-apparatus.php

 

http://www.lintonfirerescue.com/history_of_the_linton_fire_depar.htm

 

http://www.lafire.com/stations/FS017/FS017_1927-1980.htm

 

http://www.passioncamions.com/Kenworth-Passion-h20.htm

 

http://users.skynet.be/dasse/page3a.htm

 

http://www.theroyalwindsorwebsite.com/images01/transport/ThorneycroftWindsorWaterssm.jpg

 

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/b/3/3/im/b33088.jpg

 

Russel Motorcars, Canada

 

Selden auto putting up direction signs in 1911.

 

This lower picture was certainly taken a long time ago but I suspect it was post WW2.

 

This one is a Yorkshire Steam Wagon. There is a restored one here in NZ which was, I think, one of the last built - in 1925 - still with styling like the one here. It was built for the Lyttelton Harbour Board and has an interesting three way tipper body.

 

http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/packard8.htm

The car? The lady? The Edmund & Jones'?

 

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/k/l/10caphotolatil075_Bay_OmarFacelli.jpg

 

http://annealtman.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

 

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/09/jaguar-75th-anniversary/?pid=204&viewall=true

 

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Interesting trucks. The wide spread
on the rear tandem axles is somewhat
unusual. 'Wide-spread' - sometimes
referred to in both the U.S. and Canada
as "Canadian spread" tandems were
and are, still common on commercial
trucks in Canada, but not common or
popular in the U.S.

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Actually, the caption indicated it was the founder of the company, T.
Rusell at the wheel, circa 1908.

Western Development Museum/Library&Archives Canada









While other men were building cars for the masses in the early 1900s, low-priced vehicles that almost anyone could afford, Thomas Russell had his eye set on the well-to-do. Though he used slogans like “A high-grade car at a wonderfully-low price” and “Made up to a standard, not down to a price,” his namesake car, the Russell, was hundreds of dollars more than the competition - $450 more than Henry


Read more at Suite101: The Russell Motor Car A Canadian Automobile: Thomas Alexander Russell Built a Car Completely Made in Canada http://www.suite101.com/content/the-russell-motor-car-a-canadian-automobile-a107528#ixzz19PevEGNK​

 

1924 open car with disc wheels. Could be 1925 with old style split windscreen.

Wish I could ID the woman in the photo.

Vintageride