History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Don't know, but if so, you have plenty of company, including me. I need a chain drive car with chains to get outa here, before I say the wrong thing (again).

 

Locomobile c. 1906-07, with chains 'n kids.

 

Thomas, c. 1907. Chain drive, no kids.

 

Bugatti Type 59 : Year of manufacture: 1933–35

• Units built: 8
• Engine: 8-cylinder in-line engine, 2 valve/cylinder, 2 overhead camshafts
• Cubic capacity/bore [cm³/mm]: 3257/72 x 100
• Compressor: yes
• Carburetor: 2 Zenith
• Power [HP at revolutions/min]: 250 at 5500
• Forward gears: 4
• Drive: shaft-driven
• Front wheel suspension: live axle, semi-elliptical springs
• Back wheel suspension: live axle, inverted quarter-elliptical springs
• Brakes: Cable drum brakes
• Wheelbase [meters]: 2.6
• Wheel track [meters]: 1.25
• Tire size: 5.50 x 19
• Weight [kilograms]: approx. 750

 

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Oooh...what a bunch of HOTTIES!!! My kinda' women!!!!

Mart3406
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Customized Cord which still exists

 

A Lady Posing With A Supercharged Cord

 

Nice photo of McLaughlins, Twin6--I'd love one of those RNWMP license plates!

 

He looks a bit awkward without his horse!

 

Why so serious? Lighten up, guys!

 

Another steamy one here in Ontario....

 

Daimler "road train" about 1910:

 

An AEC and 2 x Leylands with Australian built bodies, around 3 ton capacity. Operated in South East Queensland:

 

Wool bales on a Leyland Truck near St George, Queensland in 1938:

(small photo).

 

A car that was being towed after an accident in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1934:

 

A motoring club tow truck from Hay, NSW, in 1940:

 

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Oh God......more HOTTIES! Yo' gotta' stop posting
all this porn!!!

Mart3406
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A thousand apologies ..... did not think before posting. I can, on reflection, understand how a tow truck can be considered porn.

To make up for the above, here's one without a motor vehicle of any kind:



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A close to new looking 1932? Auburn convertible sedan.....

 

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Stanleys of Hobert Goodwin, Concord, NH.

 

Model F Stanley, c. 1905. Bad enough to have an accident, but to have the car hauled home by horse drawn equipment must have been humiliating.

 

Old Packards must have been built of tough stuff, for this one to have been put in use as a tow truck once its days as a luxury car were over.

Can you imagine a 12-year-old Caddy being used as a tow truck these days?

-Dave

 

T6 is on stean and it has been steamy here in New England so here's some more steam. This is a Steam traction Engine that has a water tank right next to it. It is running a Logan thresher by a crossed belt.

 

A once grand and shiny old steam fire pumper living out it's final days working for a contractor.

 

Chassis photos of one of the finest steam cars ever built, Abner Dobles incredibly well designed steam car.

 

And since it's steamy here's a hot one before going swimming......

 

Neat shot of a Doble dash. Very few Dobles were built, but the survival rate on the cars is good. Like Whites, they have flash tube boilers, but use something more akin to a furnace burner. They can steam up from a cold start in 2 minutes or less, and are incredibly quiet.

 

No steam here, no how, no way. Air cooled Franklin and a lady who rivals some of the Packard girls...