History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Nice Oldsmobile delivery truck in Baltimore.

 

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Chain drive Mack, for street cleaning?

 

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Caption -"Alas...Frank and his buddy George
had no way of knowing that the bales of green,
leafy 'agricultural product' that the mysterious
'businessman' in the fancy suit had paid then to
drive across the U.S. border from Mexico were
in any way illegal!"

Mart3406
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One for Cannuck...

 

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Speedster girls and mascot. What did this start out as?

 

Genuine horsepower:

 

Delivery vans - 1900-1902:

 

1903 Renault in New South Wales:

 

1909 Delaunay Bellville in Sydney:

 

Pitt St Sydney - 1910;

 

1900 De Dion Bouton, the first car imported to New South Wales:




This is copy of the documentation (poor quality, but, what can one expect after such a long time):

 

1904 Locomobile Steamer in Braidwood, New South Wales:

 

1910 Thomas Flyer in Sydney:

 

Butcher shop and delivery vehicles in Loxton, South Australia:

 

Thank you MrFire. That 1904 Loco is very unusual, i've never seen a Loco steamer with a steering wheel. Thank you for posting the great photos.

 

Ask The Man Who Ownes One. === Packard motto.

 

Not related to the guy in post #1871 This is my Grandfather behind the wheel of a 1912 REGAL Underslung. He arrived in the USA from Sweden in 1907, and was a chauffeur all his life. Could someone run that plate number? I'd like to know who he worked for at that time, believe it was in Stamford, Ct.

 

Back in the late 1960's there was a flea market vendor that would show up with crates filled with glass plate photo negatives. Most were from the Locomobile factory. I should have bought more, I should have bought $15,000 Bugatti GP cars too, but that is another story.

 

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Caption -"If my calculations are correct, when
this baby hits 88 mph, you're gonna' see some
serious shit!"
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("Back to the future" sound bite:
If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit sound bite )

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some of these photos are REALLY creepy..

 

QCMC's father had one for years, identical -Stanhope body.

 

Cute little girl, resting on a Pope?

 

It is and it's a big one.....the bore is about the size of the width of his head which must be 6"-7". It appears to be about the size of most 66 HP engines which are usually about 825 CI. I do know that it is not a Pierce or Thomas so possibly it is a truck or other type of engine.

Is his double breasted suit the fashion of the time of is he military???

 

Tourists at Gettysburg, 1906.

 

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Still routine transport for many in the early 20th-Century South!
Only 2-wheel-drive, BUT TWO horns for safety!!! No bull, guys.

 

Horse, parked beside the upstart! Though the use of
horses as draft animals drastically declined after auto-
mobile technology improved. BUT, there are more
horses in the U.S. now than at any time in history.
Now, the hay-burners' roles are mainly show and
pleasure riding. (Last 2 pix, THANKS to Royal Feltner,
Amesbury, MA.)

 

Another stripped T and a dog. And some characters, too.