History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Rambler, Jackson, & Indian Motorcycle Dealer...513 Lincoln...Clay City. Kansas

 

Jevons Studebaker Cars and Oliver Farm Equipment...Court Street...Clay City, Kansas

 

The Showroom Of the Atwood Automobile Company...Toledo, Ohio 1915

 

Yale Motorcycle ( made In Toledo ) with wicker sidecar in front of the Toledo Jail.

 

A 1935 photo of an Electric Autolite Educational Trailer being pulled by a 1934 Desoto Airflow.

 

Fred J. Edler...Upholsterer in 1919...In his Delivery Vehicle...Have sofa, will travel!

 

Ever wonder what happens to old busses? They go here to The Community Traction Company bus graveyard.

 

T6 & EG..... I found the perfect Monkey Mobile.......Whatayathink???

 

Score! Definitely more fun than a barrel, and maybe even a Bantam. Can we all fit?

 

Another Moon, made in St. Louis.

 

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We are in the dog days of summer.

 

That is one of two Paige racing cars from their team that raced at Pikes Peak late teens-early twenties.....

 

More Doggers....

 

That's at the 1908 Algonquin hillclimb (Chicago). Ford did have a model A back then, but I doubt it's the same A the FAST boys are into!

 

F. W. Jordan and Leo Sterns in a Maxwell, from the town of Dorrance, Russell County, Kan. Nov. 07, 1911

 

Long before the Segway was invented, the postal service had these scooters. LOC photos.

 

I'm not sure Chevrolet made a two-way folding top, but these guys have got one.

 

More postal workers and vehicles...

 

Since Twin 6 has gone postal this afternoon, I will add this fine and high quality NYC Postal Service truck. I think that it maybe an Alco made by the American Locomotive Co. which was one of the best built trucks of the time.

 

More postal trucks.....The first I believe maybe a Kissel, the second photo shows Macks, the third appears to be a 1904 Knox while the forth looks to be an electric. The fifth truck is an unknown make.

 

Clinton Folger delivering mail on South Beach Street, Nantucket. Ayuh. Photo from Nantucket Historical Assn.

"For nearly twenty years, from 1900 to 1918, Nantucket was the only place in the nation that successfully fought encroachment of the automobile within its limits. Opposing politicians on the mainland and large property owners, mostly non-residents, Nantucketers kept the island free of the "gasoline buggy" until the final vote of the town on May 15, 1918. By the narrow margin of forty - 326 to 286 - the automobile was allowed entry. Clinton Folger was the mail carrier for Nantucket. Because cars were forbidden by the town, he towed his car to the state highway for driving to Siasconset."

 

Autocar hauling ice.

 

You talking to me.....????

 

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A very early Simplex on the streets of NYC where they were manufactured....

 

The Blitzen Benz.....

 

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