History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Mart3406,

edubya is correct.

The only thing I can add:

I have seen the actual truck. In the 1950's it was often parked outside Barnes Auto in Brisbane and my dad would always point it out. It was "different", even then.

Here's a little bit of info: "The proprietor, Luton White, must have been quite an entrepreneur as well as a mechanical marvel. He built his own tow truck on a Dodge chassis to enable him to haul vehicles back to his workshop. Here are its classic art deco lines, as photographed around 1938." (The photo is the one that has been posted).
http://www.yourbrisbanepastandpresent.com/2010/01/barnes-auto.html

 

Bellvue Hotel, Brisbane:

 

Opening of the Hornibrook Bridge (linking Brisbane and Redcliffe) - 1935:

 

The National Hotel, Brisbane - 1890:



and in 1939:

 

Opening of St Brigids, Brisbane - 1914:

 

It doesn't get much more accurate than the inscription on this photo:

 

Floods of 1893 show buildings near the port of Brisbane were inundated:

 

Regatta Hotel, Toowong, Brisbane - 1940:

 

All right fellow car enthusiasts! let's try this again

This weeks "Mystery Machine" Quiz is a "3-ferr"...as in "3 for the price of one".

This Quiz will have the same ground rules as laid down by the illustrious T-Head: If you think you know the answers, don't shout it out...send it to me in a PM..... DO NOT POST IT. I will announce the first five correct answers in the order that I received them Wednesday morning.

* I want to know:
1) year
2) make
3) model
4) engine type (number of cylinders)

...that way we can have a definitive answer

Here are you "Mystery Machines":

 

Model T frame and front end with an H-D motorcycle inside it for the power train. The photo was submitted on the Ford Barn T racing thread.

Note the snappy looking roadster behind it.

 

A couple of Buicks at the reconstructed Parramatta Rd, Sydney in 1921:

 

Another Buick that was enroute from Sydney to Mt Victoria when it came across a minor obstacle:

 

Looks remarkably like those Canadian beer truck (LaBatt?) pix that pop up on here from time to time. Those may have been REO's. I'm willing to bet they were coach built on a customer supplied chassis. What ever it is... its' got style!

 

I agree--it does remind me of the White Streamliners used by Labatt's. They were constructed before and after the war, so I'll refrain from posting a pic here.

Here's a link to the sole survivor.
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/labatt_white_article.htm

 

MrFire--I'm enjoying the Queensland shots--my brother lives in Brisbane and his in-laws are in Mooloolaba. There's a good chance that most of the Model T's shown are of Canadian origin, this one being '13 or '14 and RHD

 

Pre-WWI, maybe a Christie, the fire apparatus builder???

 

A big 6-cyl. circa 1910-12 Winton being used in Tijuana probably for tours.

 

dude! its a SPYDER! lol

 

Another tour bus but this time a huge one.

 

imagine how that thing musta bounced around lol!! my back hurts just looking at it.

 

I have got to re-post this to the “Let’s talk cyclecars” thread.

Can-Am Spyder indeed. Do you think the builder was aware of the Morgan cyclecars?

-Dave

 

Great-granddaddy of the Wienermobile??? Looks
like a photograph. Anybody know if it still exists?

 

#2652 I lived in Blue Hill from 1974 till 1980. You could easily recreate that scene, the town hasn't changed that much in all these years. Beautiful place.