Yes, yes it is. If I’m not mistaken she did voluntarily. Among the things that she did, apart from mechanical, she also drove an ambulance and tended to wounded patients in a field hospital.
That sure looks like the McMullen roadster when it was metal flake green, the fenders were on it to run A/SR class.
'Man and woman in tractor with sidecar, Alexandra, Vic' - photo by Lindsay Cumming (1894-1979); State Library of Victoria (Oz). This 'outfit' wasn't going anywhere fast - or slow ... there's some wire/cable from a spoke on the tractor's front wheel to the sidecar.
@down-the-road Hello, Wow, the Life Magazine folks have all the fun and best equipment to record those large images for the huge magazine we all used to see on the news/magazine racks. By comparison, our memories serve us as a little kid seeing the larger Life Magazine sitting on the first position on any news rack/magazine display in stores. As we moved down the rack, the little R&C Magazine was a baby in our hands. Ha! https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...one-by-part-2.1154030/page-3879#post-15090162 Look at that Graflex Camera set up. It certainly looks like a 4x5 size that our dad had in his hobby arsenal. The most fun part of the Graflex, other than watching and listening to the bellows open up was the flash attachment. When the flash was hooked up, then the trigger was pulled on the camera, the flash was so bright. The bulb was big. But how does one get it out of the flash unit? A little tab on the flash unit allows fast removal and then it is ready for another bulb to be inserted by hand. But, isn’t the spent flash bulb hot? Yes, extremely hot… we know from experience… yikes! We also found out that if another flash bulb was needed for the next shot, right now, there was a way. The little tab on the flash unit was pushed and out popped the spent bulb hot as a fire. Not only does it come out with a touch of the tab, but it had to be angled down as the force of the flash unit spring shot the bulb out with some force and for us, across the room or photo area. It was like a toy army gun that shot bullets. What fun! That Graflex certainly left a clear and "hot" memory of those old photo days. Jnaki With the larger format film to be processed, that is why we have been impressed with Life Magazine photos all of these years. In this case, larger is better. But, look at that old tripod in the photo. It was probably made by a company in So Cal, called Pagluiso Engineering Company. "The Pagluiso Engineering Company of Glendale , California began designing quality tripods for professionals immediately after WWII and continued producing them into the 1950's. They were well known for their Hollywood Senior and Junior tripods." I have kept that handy black tripod since our dad brought it home one day when we were little kids. The other items in the photo were given to our granddaughter as she was getting into photography at her high school and did not have a film camera set up. Note: The larger aluminum tripod was the surf spot base as it was rust free. That was handy, just incase we forgot to clean off the sharp spike sticking out of the bottom of each leg through the rubber tips, after each photo session at the beach. Our digital age hit us like a brick, so the new photography equipment ready for some sailing photos and surf photos got shoved into the dark closet until it was now in the hands of a teenager in need… YRMV
Johnny Boyd Langhorne 100. Fuel tank split. Fire Truck ran out of water. Boyd was burned pretty well. I was there.
Hey, youse didn’t see nothin understand. I just got in this car and sat behind the wheel, the car did not move and I never drove away. Youse got that? Yeah you numb nuts, don’t say anything about anything.
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