History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Awesome photos of your ancestors Steve. Thanks for sharing them.

 

I believe this is that rare bird you were looking for. I just hope they post alright (I'm a newbie).

 

I've been a bit slow on this one.

There wasn't any info about the vehicles, just the people who were posing in them.


PS Jimi, I assume the people in the photos were from Ohio. Do you think you could give them a call and ask them about the vehicles?

 

http://www.rovercoaches.com.au/aboutus/history.htm

 

http://manlylocalstudies.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

 

Kansas City Journal-Post (August 8, 1927) ~
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Harry Perrigo, 1116 Bennington Avenue, inventor of a device which, he says, draws electrical energy from the air, yesterday demonstrated the invention before Col. Paul henderson, vice-president of the National Air Transport, Inc., and Lou E. Holland, president of the Chamber of Commerce. The device was used to propel a motor car from which the motor had been removed at a rate of 40 miles an hour.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Mr & Mrs Perrigo are shown in the motor car. Mr Holland stands at the left of the car and Col. Henderson on the right ~[/FONT]







[FONT=Times New Roman,Times]Mr Perrigo at the wheel, explaining the apparatus to Col. Henderson ~[/FONT]



<CENTER>[FONT=Times New Roman,Times][SIZE=+2]Harry E. PERRIGO[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman,Times][SIZE=+2]Etheric Wave Accumulator[/SIZE][/FONT]

http://www.rexresearch.com/perrigo/perrig.htm
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Mr. Thomas of NY painting his car. 1920

http://picwar.blogspot.com/2009/07/old-is-gold.html

 

http://whalescampsandtrails.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html

 

http://www.rattansieducationaltrust.or.ke/Fulfilling a Dream 1.htm

 

First ambulance built in Newcastle, NSW, Australia [c.1920&#8217;s]

First ambulance built in Newcastle, shown outside Gilbert Bros.& Co. Ltd. Trimmers, Painters & Car Renovators.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/5544840674/in/set-72157625839715092

 

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BarVict-c4.html

 

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LGS said: The Standard Catalog says that maybe only a prototype was built of the 1920 Hunter.

Thanks, LGS, gotta be a rare to extinct bird, the Hunter. And a photo or ad drawing would probably be near impossible to find! Most lists I looked at yesterday didn't even list it. And one or two that did had NO background info at all.

I envy those with a copy of the Standard Catalogue!

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LoriJo said: I believe this is that rare bird you were looking for. I just hope they post alright (I'm a newbie).
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Hi, Lori Jo, and welcome to the HAMB! Read your profile; it's great when a couple BOTH work on their hotrods and antiques TOGETHER!

Where in the world did you unearth the photos, stock certs and notes about the 1920 Hunterautomobile??? Rare BIRD? If this is what it appears to be, yup, I'd say: IF you didn't find a Dodo, you HAVE at least found PROOF that it existed!

THANKS for a good FIRST HAMB post! Now, Lemoyne, PA, is that near Harrisburg? I can't wait 'til LGS and MrModelT see this.

 

http://movieclassics3326.blogspot.com/2010/09/star-cars-and-reel-rides.html

 

Soldiers unload sacks of mail from truck at the Ft. Upton (New York) post office station.

http://geographyphotos.allfreeblogs.info/tag/geography/

 

1917 Pierce-Arrow Model 48-B in It's a Gift, Short Movie, 1923

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_143256-Pierce-Arrow-Model-48-B-1917.html

 

1916 Pierce-Arrow Model 48-B in The Crowd, Movie, 1928

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_205435-Pierce-Arrow-Model-48-B-1916.html

 

The first Marmon on an Indiana road

http://www.averymuseum.com/marmon%20biography.htm

 

http://www.collectioncar.com/gazette_detailed.php?id=60

 

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Does anybody know what the cylindrical
shaped object, just above the license plate
is? Also, any ideas as to the year and make
of the car in the pic?

Mart3406
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The object on the front of this car is Spring Starter, a rare accessory starter for early car not equipped with an electric starter. It is mounted in the location of the hand crank and drives off the front of the motor.

The car itself is a 1911 Renault Model CF

 

Tom Moran teacher Hunter Valley 1920's

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/299929346_e4ae67ad71_z.jpg

 

Singer Roadster

http://singer.roadster.free.fr/Scan/Ten 1920.jpg

 

http://www.krisweb.com/krisbigriver/krisdb/html/krisweb/history/hpbig20.jpg

 

http://www.pacificsites.com/~rparker/





























http://www.pacificsites.com/~rparker/

 

Very cool. Great eye to see that feature.

The cylindrical feature lines up perfectly to the crank position on a 1913-ish Renault. My guess is a starter.

Can anyone corroborate the make model and feature?

Vintageride

 

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Wow. Until your reply, I had never
even heard of a 'spring starter'. After
reading your reply though, I did a
quick Google search on the term and
found that at least one company
- Kinetco Spring Starter Co.
( http://springstarter.com) still makes
them and markets them for use on
modern-day gas and diesel marine and
industrial engines!

Mart3406
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P.S. Please Excuse theae two OT attached
pics, but they show and describe one of
these modern-day 'Kinetco' brand spring
starters.
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The object on the front of this car is Spring Starter, a rare accessory starter for early car not equipped with an electric starter. It might be a Bendix unit. It is mounted in the location of the hand crank and drives off the front of the motor.

The car itself is a 1911 Renault Model CF

 

Okay, I will readily admit that I haven't yet read the link Mart supplied (been a long day!).

When I was a kid, we had a Sears mower w. B&S engine WITH a spring starter. Even at 9, I could hand-crank it, then start the mower (one start, unless the plug was old).

Were those EARLY car starters of the same PRINCIPLE??? If so, I'm sensing that the car's ENGINE somehow re-set the spring starter. Am I even close?

Surely, people didn't have to hand crank the thing, as we did the Sears mower???

THANKS in advance! This is an INTERESTING piece of automotive history here! Cool.

 

We all love a good street scene, and this is a duesy, showing what the Library of Congress
calls a low-level view at Washington's 15th and G streets with the U.S. Treasury Building in
the background. This is 1917 -- smack during WWI -- showing horse traffic, autos AND
streetcars! BUSY place! But with no overhead lines, what kind of power are the streetcars
running on?

 

I know EXACTLY where this photo was taken from! There is a very old and very famous restaurant on that corner. It opened in 1857 and was a favorite of many early presidents. Ulysses S. Grant had his own personal table reserved for him. I sat at his table last time I was there.....I don't think he would mind, do you?