Vintage shots from days gone by!

German trucks 1915

 

Starting an airplane engine 1915, keep your arm clear after engaging!

 

1915 London double decker bus

 

Marine's trucks 1915

 

Automobile and motor boat about 1900

 

Italian Motor Cycle Squad, Italian men on motorcycles during World War I 1914

 

Motor Corps, Pittsburg, Pa. November 1918

 

Firemen studying an auto motor 1910

 

American Motor School 1910

 

De Dion motor carriage 1901

 

Ford Motor Company delivery department, just about enough to make me drool!

 

Red Cross 1918
I believe they are giving one of those Nigerian Princes a ride.

 

Motor Corps Minneapolis, Minn. 27 November 1918

 

Competition of motor pumper engines held by the International Association of Fire Engineers, New York City, Sept. 3, 1913. Pumper engines drew water from the Hudson River.

 

Hupp Motor Car Co

 

Crashfarmer: Great photos. Having an explanation of what we are looking at is a big plus.

 

Well, here is something I did not know about. Apparently Catholic Priests used to roam the streets looking for sinners about 1910?

 

A Ford TT dump truck, and ancestor of the Ford dump trucks that I drove. I believe I could have hauled that whole truck with the load in it and been easily legal on weight in one of those dump trucks that I drove.

 

Ford TT Semi! A really BIG truck for 1925! I think that would fit easily in a 53 foot trailer.

 

This is where you buy your Lincoln in 1924

 

Back when racing was real 1922

 

That's awesome....looks like started life as a Pontiac but could have been a one off factory as the body lines fit......perfect for Jay Leno.

 

Photo: Walker Evans

 

Chicago

 

Drive through Polio clinic in LA, 1960

 

Hollywood & Vine, ca. 1963

 

Murfreesboro, TN. 1955

 

New York City ca. 1913

 

Photo: Ruth Orkin