History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

An early circa 1905 and a touring from about 1910 or 11 both from CA.....

 

A couple of choice Pierce Arrows from the Salt Lake City area...

 

A late teens model 48....

 

Posting all these Pierce Arrow photos has made me hungry....I think I could eat this whole truck load......Time for dinner.....

 

They used a Pierce like this (diff color) for the original movie "Cheaper by the Dozen".

 

I think the conventional headlight option on Pierce-Arrows were called "New York" lights. Could someone confirm that. Add me to the list of conventional headlight fans.

 

Ooh- my mistake! The movie car had the headlights in the fenders- NOT the New York lights- thanks 37kid!

 

This thread is so cool! Please keep the vintage pics coming!
To paraphrase Charles Dicxken's 'Oliver Twistt'- "Please
Sir...I want more"!!!

Mart2306
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By that, do you mean drum lights mounted in yokes in front of the radiator? I know Pierce and Packard offered that as an option about the same time. Probably for Pierce the drums were Bausch & Lomb, and for Packard, C.M. Hall. I'm no fan of the fender jobs either. I recall old timers telling me how easy it was, when driving at night back in the 20's and 30's, to tell the Pierces from all other cars, on account of those wide set lights. Nothing else like it.

 

Nice Pierce in front of Tom Botterill's dealership in Salt Lake City, 1913. This photo and some others recently posted, from Utah State Historical Society.

 

I have been trying to find photos of road trains that operated in Australia prior to WW2. There weren't many.

i was truly surprised to find this photo of an early electric powered Road Train operating in Germany:

 

Sheep transport in New Zealand:

 

Another from USHS, but not a Pierce (Cadillac, perhaps?). Looks like T-Head on top of Jumbo. The derby is a nice touch...

 

A Double decker Leyland:





Rail bus:



Link to a short film clip:
http://aso.gov.au/titles/home-movies/australias-first-double-decker/

 

The first two buses to operate in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1922:

 

1928 photo of 4 x Beans and an AEC Renown:

 

The first train to arrive at Canberra Station in 1914:

 

Deleted - I got carried away and photo was outside pre WW2 timeframe.

 

This photo is borderline. Australia was at war, but the US wasn't. Please delete if not suitable. Thanks:

Bus being used in mock air raid practice in Perth in 1940:

 

Deleted - Was outside time frame of WW2

 

Cooper Bailey & Co circus in the US in 1876. It was shipped to Australia for its first tour soon after this photo:

 

Colin Defries (an Englishman) with his Wright Model A "The Stella" at Victoria Park Racecourse around 1909/10:

 

Brisbane, Queensland, 1898. The Customs House is still the same, having been recently restored. The road is the same, but, the tram tracks went in the 1960's:

 

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Caption -"Early hot-rodder, Bert Fegg,
totally misunderstood when his buddies
suggested he build a 'street car'!"

Nart3406

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Pierce Arrow Factory under construction.

 

T6 I think you are right it does look like a Cadillac, but I think that is EG...... all he has been doing latety is riding around like this and not posting any pixs.....

 

Diesel engined car which is equally at home on the road or on a railway track, was tested for the first time on the Great West Road, near London, England
11-12-1935

 

JUst to show I'm still here. Here's a Marmon, Stearns, and a nearly-new, but slightly used 1913 Overland. Check out the seat covers.

 

We toured Put-In-Bay Island, Ohio last week, but didn't see anything like this.