History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

1912 Overland 59T, me thinks.

 

Not an Overland. Is it an Isotta?

 

Bath Iron Works fabrication plant, Brunswick

 

Opening of Carlton Bridge, Bath, Nov. 15, 1927

 

Masonic Parade, Bath, ca. 1925

 

THANK YOU! Googled Mr Hill, he may have been on the American Tobacco Co. board of directors. These photos of the Regal must have the son of Mr. Hill off to riding lessons.

 

It looks like a 1926 Singer 10 with a local body, I've seen a coupe with a similar body.

 

Magnificent 'even again...

 

umm

 

Good goin', eddubya! '26 Singer it is, according to SVV member Simon Bishop. I just wasn't sure if it was U.S. or British.

But the back-story is also really keen. Another
Surrey member, Bruce Welch, had gotten the
pic from his mother who said the registration
number was ME261, and the photo was snapped
on Newport Plateau near Sidney in about '39.

My favorite part of the story, though: She said
that when the gravity-fed fuel tank ran low, the
car would stall going up an incline. Her personal
experience of this was during WWII when petrol
was, of course, rationed. Once, she recounted,
she had to drive backwards up the northern
approach to the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

That story was fun for me, because my dad
still gets a big laugh out of telling about his
dad (my grand-father) driving backwards up
hills with his '28 Model A rumble seat roadster.

 

YellerSpirit: LOVE the steam engine!

T-6, THANKS for the Pike's Peak info. Really
cool, in view of what a BIG role the peak played
in early endurance contests and bragging rights
year-by-year among companies! And the pic of
TR in the Mitchell is great. Any idea at all of the
occasion? It would have been when he was an
ex-officio president, so I think it's interesting.
Though he didn't drive himself, the progressive
prez seemed to have no fear at all in utilizing
autos to get where he wanted to be. Seems
there are a fair number of pix of Teddy in motor
cars. On another thread, someone posted a pic
of him making a speech in South Dakota,
standing in the rear of a RARE Fawick Flyer.

ehdubya, THANKS for keeping the legend of
the 'Magnificent even going!!! LOL And I
like their SOLUTION to the blow-out problem,
too!

 

Originally posted by Chief Wannabe, Ozark, MO, 10/09 on
the thread, "We ALL Love a Dare! OIX of Truly Extinct Makes?

From my old hometown of Sioux Falls, SD - Teddy
Roosevelt in a Fawick Flyer at the Sioux Falls Railroad
Depot. Only 5 built, yet one still survives and is on
display at the Old Courthouse Museum in SooFoo.
I'll try to dig up a recent pic. Believed to be one of if
not the first 4-door car. Fawick was a great inventor
and designed everything from farm machinery
clutches to the first rubber golf grips.

 

SunRoof, keen pic! The young gals here would have been tinkering
with about a '22 Stephens? Continental 224-CID OHV six?

 

I would like to be her Monkey......The press photo is of Monkey Mike a PREWWII movie monkey and an actor. Can anyone identiy her??

 

An early advertising plane......

 

A great set of photos from CA showing two Type I Locomobiles which were made between 1908-10.

The Type I was a big high quality 525 CI double chain drive car that also did quite well in racing.

Note the radiator caps and the guy in the forth photos gesture

 

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To intensify the sense of personal
involvement, the stunt was performed
in the parking lot over cars of people
who'd sneaked in without tickets!


Honest! Would I make something like that up???

 

A press photo showing, Chris N. Noeg, secretary-treasurer, station agent, conductor, engineer, brakeman and section crew of the Glesburg and Great Eastern Railroad, standing beside the train of the railroad. It carries the mail and does a general freight and passenger business, and last year paid a six per cent dividend.

The car is a Model L Lincoln.

 

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Before and after...... RMSC Photos

 

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I can't think of it now although i'll look into the identity of the rider and motorcycle when i find the time but this is a typical pacer machine used by many nations during this period. Big and heavy with V2 and some with 3 cylinder engines, some displacing upwards of 300ci. Have you thought what would happen to both riders if a chain was used? Belts were used for many years.
The bespectacled rider is Englishman Leon Meredith, 7 time Amatuer World Stayers Champion. I have read an article describing him as a Clark Kent character but when he took to the track he transformed into the great comic super hero. He also competed in three Summer Olympic Games. If this is a 1908 photo then it's probably taken at Liepzig, Germany where he captured his 4th World title.

 

Very interesting; thanks. Here's a racer on the beach, where helmets must have been optional.

 

Clyde Pangborn prepares to jump from a speeding car to an airplane in San Diego, CA. Photo from San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

 

Model L ?? Packard w/a Seldon behind it and then another Packard in the parking lot for an early Vanderbilt cup race. What year T6, 1904??

 

...or he was just posing.

Here's another photo of a stayer and his pacer. The further the rider sat the better the draft for the cyclist which ultimately led to higher speeds.