History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

[MrFire]

A couple from Australia:

Fruit transport in the Illawarra District. Driver - Ted Saunders from Karragullen;



Early Chrysler of Mr Liebow from Western Australia;



another but not the Chrysler on this post card;

[Artfrombama]

"couldn't you see the fence post or were you texting your boyfriend?"

[MrFire]

An early road train in Australia:



a Buick Ambulance from Grafton NSW:



Buick and Hudson from Armidale NSW:



Buick from Goulburn Vic:



Buick and Vauxhall also from Goulburn:

[MrFire]

Big Lizzie:



Exerpt:
"Calder Highway, Red Cliffs. This massive traction engine is the largest ever built in Australia. So large and so slow that it took over two years (1917-1919) to make the journey from Melbourne to the Red Cliffs area. It weighs over 45 tons, is 34 feet long, 11 feet wide and 18 feet high. It was powered by a 60 horse-power single cylinder Blackstone crude oil engine weighing 8 tons. The turning circle was something to marvel at; it took 200 feet radius to turn it around. It towed two massive trailers, each with their own water and oil reserve tanks, and had an overall carrying capacity of 80 tons."

[twin6]

MrFire, welcome aboard and thank you for sharing the great photos. Do you have a larger image of Big Lizzie you could post? I'm sure many would enjoy seeing more of that massive machine! And is the Michael Taylor whose pix you posted in NZ by any chance?

[twin6]

This is an awesome early car, in Mexico City, 1910.

[twin6]

Another cut down T. Are they experimenting with a radical new heater?

[T-Head]

Here is another photo of Big Lizzy I found along with a different one pulling an incredible load of timber.......

[jimi'shemi291]

I just knew it would happen! Thanks to EarlyGuy,
"The Return of the Packard Girls." They're BACK,
with attitude, and NOW they're on the sauce!!!

[T-Head]

A large steam grader loads dirt into a horse-drawn wagon during construction on a Barge Canal.

Two other engines working at land clearing. RMSC Photos.

[T-Head]

[QUOTE=The37Kid;5387102]Wonder what that axle would look like after the two 90HP 6 cylinder engines were installed?

The whole thing was just a scam to swindle investors......

[jimi'shemi291]

HAMBer RustyHood originally posted these cool pix of an oldie set
up for rail bed inspection on another thread, Old Railroad Inspection
Car Photo's, Do you have any? Keen pic, worth a reprise!

[T-Head]

Here are the lovely Packard girls during their swimsuit competition.

[The37Kid]

Still no answer to my question on post #702.[QUOTE=T-Head;5388178]

Originally Posted by The37Kid

Wonder what that axle would look like after the two 90HP 6 cylinder engines were installed?

The whole thing was just a scam to swindle investors......

[jimi'shemi291]

T-Head thanks to adding that it turned out to be a scam. As 37Kid said,
there are too many things about this that aren't mechanically realistic.
Actually it looks like a bizarre movie prop!

[T-Head]

And here are the Packard Girls later on in life as milk maids.......

[T-Head]

Trick motorcyclist Ester Stevens of Newark, New Jersey poses with her Harley-Davidson. She was in Rochester for the annual motorcycle meet. Photo RMSC

[jimi'shemi291]

Leave it to T-Head to milk a gag! LOL



And as for Post 702, my vote goes for: There was manipulation of multiple images to get a pretty fishy-looking publicity photo. If PhotoShop had been available back then, it could have been done way more effectively, IMO. I'm guessing negative matting was done in the dark room, exposing different parts of the neg with two or more source images. But WHY? No clue here!

[T-Head]

Dirt T..........

[twin6]

"Hey dirt-T, you're next!"