History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackcountryman/favorites/page18/?view=lg

Crossley India Pattern on the North West frontier (India) in the 1930s.

Design

These were refurbished Crossley India Pattern cars.<SUP id=sources>1</SUP> The chassis was replaced by a Chevrolet truck chassis.<SUP id=sources>1</SUP>
It had pressed steel wheels with balloon tires.<SUP id=sources>1</SUP>
The engine was located in front.<SUP id=sources>2</SUP> Behind it was the fighting compartment with a domed turret on top.<SUP id=sources>2</SUP> On top of the turret was an observation dome.<SUP id=sources>2</SUP> Some vehicles had searchlights mounted on top of the turret.<SUP id=sources>2</SUP> Internally the sides were lined with asbestos to help keep the crew insulated from the heat.<SUP id=sources>2</SUP>
Electrify

One odd defensive measure was that the crew could electrify the exterior to help ward off anyone climbing on board.<SUP id=sources>2</SUP>
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http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedkingdom/armoured-car/crossley.asp

 

http://blog.nebraskahistory.org/?m=201009

 

http://www.hagerty.com/lifestyle/hobby_article.aspx?id=68858


http://myvintageads.com/cart/index.php?cPath=22_328

 

http://imodern.com/birth_of_auto_industry.html

 

http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/u289526acme

 

http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisur...milyhistory/canyouhelp/recordofficeimage4.htm

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60668654@N00/5221225274/



http://thevintagetraveler.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/camp-attire-1910s/

http://fuzzylizzie.com/vintageoutingallery.html

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixesandsevens/1226599855/

 

http://dustontheshelves.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

 

Courtesy Southern Oregon Historical Society #15051



Courtesy Southern Oregon Historical Society #15243

http://www.nps.gov/archive/crla/mark5.htm

 

Isn't that just like Anericans? The family goes camping and the CAR gets its own tent.

-Dave

 

Auto stage leaving for Brewster, Okanogan, ca. 1910
Photo by Frank Matsura



Cariboo Inn, Okanogan, 1920s




Bureau Hotel, Okanogan, 1921
Courtesy UW Special Collections

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=9592

 

http://www.viewsofthepast.com/topics/transportation/list-trans-automobiles.htm
























Lots of photos at: http://www.viewsofthepast.com/topics/transportation/list-trans-automobiles.htm

 

http://www.orroroo.com.au/2009/10/cunningham/

 

http://senseof1place.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/

 

1905

 

WOW! A slammed Mack- who'da thunk it?!

 

Ye old service station.........

 

THANKS, to all who've posted those great CAMPING and service-station pix!

Now, what have we here? Austin? Singer? other?

 

Sorry to do this to everybody, again! But I don't recall any "meeting of the minds." I ran across the illustration at BOTTOM, leading me to go back and review the TOP pic everybody talked so long about -- including the MYSTERY of WHY the "B" hubcaps. One poster called Berliet, '06 or '07. One thing NOTICEABLE at bottom is a much shorter hood.

I may not have the definitive answer, but I have a theory. I tend to believe the top car really IS an American Berliet, and the hubcaps were not simply switched by the owner. Given two facts, I lean this way. AlCo is known to have taken a LONG time to produce each car, as they were proud of them and charged a lot (even if they ultimately lost money). And the shorter hood BELOW? No matter, I think. If Berliets and AlCos were so expensive, then isn't it possible that there could be plenty of differences among specimens, even in a given year? Secondly, according to American-Automobile.com, from 1907 on AlCos were shaft-driven.

Just going with these things -- and the gut -- I believe the top car really IS an American Berliet by American Locomotive. Let the gunfire begin! LOL




1906 American Berliet
American Locomotive Co., Providence, RI

 

2 Seater Side Valve Morris Minor, around 1932 / '33

 

THANKS, Chris! I love this place!

 

Jeez! I haven't seen one of those belt coin dispensers since the days when the ice cream man and the paper boy used to use them! As a kid -- speaking of things GONE, like the iceman, the milkman, home doctor visits .... I used to think it would be the BEST Christmas present EVER, if I could have one of the "money machines" (yeah, I was a dumb kid of 6 or 7!) so that I could walk into my fave candy shop, order up a Black Cow, Raisinettes, a Clark Bar, whatever, THEN reach down there and make my money machine just go CHA-CHING! Whistle all the way home -- I mean, around the candy in my mouth! LOL



And lest some er, person jump on Rob Zombie for showing this pic as being COLOR on a pre-WWII thread, well, IT IS PRE-WWII . It was shot about 1939 or 1940 and by a photog employed by the U.S. Farm Security Administration (called Office of War Information during WWII).

 

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Speaking of ALCO, didn't they often build their
money-losing, high-dollar luxury cars, not so
much with the intent of selling them to the
upper-class public for a profit. but rather, often
or primarily even - built them as "gifts" for top
railroad company executives, to "sweeten the
deal" so to speak and act as an incentive to get
them to purchase ALCO locomotives? Nowadays
that would be rightfully considered "bribery",
"corporate malfeasance" and "corruption" and
would be prosecutable as a crime, but back then,
in the days when the railroad robber-barons
were still the kings of Wall Street, it was just
considered a normal part of "doing business".

Mart3406
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Hmmm?? I wonder Mike
...is that really your "grandfather"...or is that
just what you want us to believe??? Are you
part of *yet another*, dangerous and nefarious
'U.S. Government-'Illuminati-NWO' plot, conspiracy
and cover-up, sent here to infiltrate and subvert
the HAMB???? Is that picture - especially with that
strange and highly suspicious. very 'early-1900's
alien-spacecraft-like' looking "fire apparatus"
in the background *actual photographic proof*
that space aliens have been visiting us for much
longer than the government has led us to believe???
Damn! I smell another major cover up and conspiracy
brewing here! Where's the old 'Weekly World News'
supermarket tabloid to investigate this, now that we
really need them??!!

Mart3406 ('Who doesn't really mind the voices
in his head so much anymore, but hates like hell
when they all start arguing and fighting with
each other'!!!)
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LOL!!! My dad STILL lugs one to the toy train meets- doesn't use it (never has, but still brings it... just in case !

 

Suzanne Lenglen (Tennis player) - circa 1924 - and a Panhard.

http://mini.43.free.fr/panhard1.html

 

http://luirig.altervista.org/naturaitaliana/viewpics.php?title=Breynia+disticha

 

1901 Phelps Runabout




1899 Eclipse

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56437706@N04/5229798519/in/photostream/

 

1938 Savio 508C Giardiniera (FIAT based)

http://www.oldwoodies.com/gallery-worldwoodies2.htm