History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

2nd series 8 with Murphy body and non-standard headlamps (Zeiss?). This might be a movie still - I have seen it before, somewhere. Great car.

 

Was today the first official day of fall? It's starting to feel like fall, and bird season starts soon where I am. Here are some hunters (the more successful ones don't have nicknames it seems) long ago. Can't figure out if the one guy snacking might actually have just gnawed off a chunk of Day's Work, and not a brownie.

 

SunRoof, what a fab pic of this fine, talented and socially responsible gentleman at about age 62! Beyond the achievements he's usually remembered for (creating Cadillac & Lincoln, e.g.), I'll always revere him for taking an active role in accelerating Kettering's (and others') development of the electric starter, finally in practice by 1912.

Henry Leland's actions were apparently an act of conscience -- and commitment -- over the tragic death of his contemporary, and personal friend, Byron Carter. Carter was the father of the CarterCar and its innovative CVT transmission -- still in worldwide use today. Carter suffered an horrendous injury to his jawbone while trying to crank-start a car, the old way, leading to his protracted demise after infection set in, back in those pre-antibiotic times.

 

Nice pic, Twin. What's the car? Those shotguns all
appear to be state-of-the-art pumps, at that time
before semi-autos came out. I think this dude's
name was Hannibal something-or-other. LOL

 

I don't know if this was posted yet, but this is a picture of the Charlie Birger gang.
They mostly ran a hooch operation in southern Illinois in the 20s-30s.
I had a cousin tell me recently that one of the men in the pic might well be my grandpa. Unsubstantiated as that may be, I think its a cool-ass picture.






JOE

 

No idea what make, but you've gotta love the trunk and rack setup. Nice pumps - maybe a Winchester model 12 at right, but the others I can't ID. Any eagle eye know what they are?

 

Ty was playing in 1920 but he didn't look that good! not him.

 

Before clay targets, glass ball targets were used during practice by shotgunners.

 

Delia Hydromotor - 1914/1917:

 

1899 Magrelen anphibian, built in Denmark, photographed Richmond, USA - 1904

 

Amphi 2 - USA built - 1909:

 

1913 Garbaccio - Swiss built



More here:

http://homeusers.brutele.be/mithril/GPA 7177 historique.html

 

Minnis Tractor - USA - 1869 (?):

 

LeFevre Tractor - France - 1913

 

" Lieutenant Colonel Philips Johnson created in 1919 the ‘Roadless Traction Limited’. He made many Track Conversions on Ford tractors but, about 1920, studied and built in his Department of Tank Design and experiment the White Staff Observation Car (picture) with tracks and perplexing cable suspension for the U.S. Army."

 

Diplock Pedrial Tractor and trailer - 1913:

 

Best Tractor Manufacturing - 1900:

 

Phoenix and Buckeye Tractor with retractable spikes on wheels - 1916:

 

These trees must be cousins to Wawona...

 

Not positive but the Car Looks like a 1933-1935 Chevrolet.

 

TWIN 6 Is coming here for lunch today.....After lunch we are going out for a test drive in a Mercer Raceabout just like this one the Ralph Depalma is driving. Should be fun......

 

1930's .....

 

Metz Roadster

 

That shaped rear window was used on 1933 and 1934 Chevrolet Master and Standard, 1935 Chevrolet Standard and on 1933-1934 Pontiac. Pontiac used the same body as Chevrolet 1933 and 1934. Can't see the side of the hood. In the movie Hannibal Lector had a 1936 Buick limo in the storage building.

 

JunkYardDog, I'd call that a pretty decent little private arsenal!
Looks like everything from a .410 shotgun, up through pumps
& rifles, all the way to those three full-auto Tommy Guns! (I
don't reckon the fellas at the drug store that developed the film
and printed the photo gave a copy to the authorities???) BTW,
those fellas a gonna scratch the patina!!! LOL

 

One for ALL our simian friends on this thread!

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"Sarong Girl" Dorothy Lamour and
a friend confide about their issues.

 

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Joan Bennett. What's the car?

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Bruce Cabot and Linda Darnell

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Steamy, in a different way. I think this might be a Phoenix steam log hauler (similar to a Lombard).