History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

http://www.claytondeerparkhistoricalsociety.com/photo3_3.html

 

http://www.national66.com/66hstry.html

 

Wiscasset Maine 1915

 

http://centralpark.org/index.php/20...-recalls-sleigh-rides-to-mcgowns-pass-tavern/

 

http://www.automobilsport.com/histo...-biography-died-spa-belgium-1939---65541.html

 

Anybody know there was a DeSoto motor car before
the one Walter Chrysler christened??

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1913 DeSoto Six

 

S'wat is it?


A family and friends posing in a rare three-seated touring car,
THANKS to Royal Feltner's fab site.

 

Looks like a 1910-11 Stevens-Duryea six cylinder to me.

 

The de Soto was a product of the Zimmerman company which had built buggies and also made high wheeler cars. It was a family concern and from what I can gather the primary reason for the company going out of business in 1915 was the deaths of two of the family members. The surviving member, John Zimmerman, established a relationship with the Auburn Automobile Company and produced Auburns in his factory under the name Union for one more year - 1916.

 

From Western NY heritage press

 

Buffalo Built Babcock Electric
Showing rectifier installed and vehicle being charged. <!--show only one date (key_date), based on created 1st, pub 2nd, depicted 3rd-->(1909)

 

LGS, the UNION automobile has to be ONE RARE BIRD nowadays! Wow, one year only.

Gary, the 1909 Babcock runabout in #7063 reeks with period charm. What a sweet little car! Hey, in the factory photo, WHAT is the body of water back there? To big to be the Niagra, isn't it?

 

LGS, the sources I checked seem to show that Auburn needed more production factilities and bought out Zimmerman in South Bend about 1911. Apparently, they allowed him to keep building Zimmermans while sharing space. For 1916, Auburn spun off a "new" Union auto as an INDEPENDENT make, built by Zimmerman's staff and using a 22-horse Teetor four-banger. It was priced low (apparently to go "DOWn market) but still higher than Ford T. So the effort was abandoned after one marketing season.

The sources I looked at seem to indicate this was a low-budget effort -- basically, using Auburn parts but a Teetor engine. I'd love to see a PHOTO or artist's rendering of a Union, as I imagine it looked just like a re-badged, short-wheelbase Auburn.

ANYBODY in HAMBland know of a pic or drawing of the Union???

 

Oops, I goofed. Doug's pix NOT taken before WWII, obviously. I'll delete and post appropriately over on the EXTINCT MAKES thread. Sorry!

 

Below, THANKS to American-Automobiles.com, a 1916 Auburn
36-horse Series 6-38 with Rutenber four, similar to the 6-38
with 38-horse Teetor four. Might the Auburn give us a HINT,
since no Unions seem to have survived?

 

http://antiquetractorsforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=6556

 

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/ModernMechanix/2-1932/tractor_from_car.jpg

 

http://scaa.sk.ca/gallery/kids/machinery/en_sources.php

 

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii311/mrfixitat/?action=view&current=linn1930frinkplows.jpg

 

http://ssns.frontiersd.mb.ca/Senior...chive/Thumbs/KeywordPages/C/construction.html

 

http://www.farmersbase.com/page55.html

 

http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii311/mrfixitat/?action=view&current=LinnFrink1928model.jpg

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/HoltTractorFrontviewAnd8inchHowitzer.jpg

 

http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/13/1491638/kansas-oil-for-150-years.html

 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourfolks/cwsnyder.html

 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourfolks/images/tracdemo.jpg

 

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/23/english-ferry-wades-through-ocean-waves/



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