Vintage shots from days gone by!

Mansell Hackett purchased the Argo Motor Company in 1917 and established the Hackett Motor Car Company. Located in Jackson, Michigan, the company produced a line of touring cars and roadsters until 1918, at which time the company was moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan and became the Lorraine Motors Corporation. The exact date of these photographs is unknown, but they provide a revealing look in to the early auto assembly industry. Hackett used proprietary 4-cylinder engines sourced from G.B.& S. (Golden, Belknap & Schwartz Co.), a number of the powerplants being visible in the fourth photo.

 

My best guess would be cooling the hub with water so it can be worked on. The "shield" is probably to keep the brakes dry.

 

My first thought, they're trying to remove a broken wheel but the fender wasn't hurt.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1205400&stc=1&d=1294779854
my dad's first car bought in 1941 for $250 and sold in 1944 for $600. he attended hollywood high school in LA.

 

From the good ol' days when everything was going to be "Atomic"!
Energy too cheap to measure. The USAF built this giant robot to handle nuclear materials, really practical eh?

 

consolidated freightways... this picture is from the late forties. established 1929 ... I drove for them 1985-2002. about two million miles. came across this other snapshot from an earlier post... taken in the '60s. CF city delivery truck on the left

 

That old Freight is a sight for sore eyes. Consolidated Freightways once owned Freightliner......correct?

 

I'm STILL waiting for that flying car and personal robot, that would cater to my every whim, I was promised back around 1958.

 

Me too! Remember that in the future machines would do our work and we'd have so much free time that it would be a problem keeping ourselves occupied? Honest kids, that's the kind of stuff predicted! Undersea and space farms! Atomic everything! Food in pill form! Atomic cars! Flying cars!

 

yes... until cf was forced to sell freightliner to mercedes benz in 1981. white marketed freightliner until the mid 70's.

 

Dragwaye, built by Clive Waye, blown VW engine, ran at a few sprints & then the early days of British Drag racing in the 60s.

 

Quite possibly spraying brake cleaning solvent to clean dirt and brake dust off the parts. Remember when brake cleaner, among other things, had not gone "green" and really worked, Now, when I spray wasp and hornet killer it just pisses them off-when I spray brake (and other) cleaner it just pisses me off

 

Thanks for that link. My mistake, it's not the SR&RL it's the Bridgton & Harrison RR. This is a great pic.



Jury-rigged though it may have been, this B&HR Railbus #3, pictured here at Bridgton Depot, served its purpose well - with the help of some "down-home Yankee ingenuity." The little bus was built with little money and little materials. Faced with an embattled cash problem, the Narrow Gauge crew concocted the self-propelled "contraption" in an early demonstration of the concept of recycling. Using a Chevy Sedan and substituting some light sheet-iron wheels under the front and more wheels under the rear and a "trailer" behind, with its own set of wheels (that had once been used on old boxcars), the rail workers were able to inspect and maintain tracks at a low cost. (One observer noted the only recognizable part was the "Chevrolet radiator!")

 

http://www.gulflandmotel.com.au/normanton.htm

 

Headstone, unknown Confederate soldier, Gray



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In 1862 a grieving Gray family opened a coffin that was supposed to contain the body of their son. Instead they found the body of a stranger, a confederate soldier in uniform.

The gravestone reads, "Stranger, A soldier of the late war died 1862, Erected by the ladies of Gray."

 

Elvis Presley concert tickets, 1977



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Pair of tickets to an Elvis Presley concert scheduled for August 18, 1977, at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland.

The concert was cancelled because Presley died two days earlier.

 

CF built there own trucks and when it came time to sell them had a problem so they "formed" Freightliner Corp.
Mike

 

Can she COOK???? Looks as though
she's cookin' right there! Whoa!

 

Did somebody say flying car? Pie-in-the-sky idea from 1945.


Bel Geddes flying car, 1945

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Industrial designer and visionary Norman Bel Geddes,
1893-1958, paved the design thought path for others
whose names are better remembered today than his own.



[SIZE=-1]Double-decker airliner, Bel Geddes with Otto Koller, 1929[/SIZE]

 

Jeez, and it's a sea plane no less! Gary

 

Norman Bel Geddes is one of my favorite designers, there was probably not a single house in mid century America that didn't have something designed by him in it.

 

Make sure you stop at the decontrol station!
More of the fabulous FUTURE!

 

I've made going through this entire thread a part of my bucket list. I had better straighten up and fly right,so I can be around...

Fascinating stuff,and thanks to all who have contributed.

 

Grandfather I never met worked for Planters...Found these in a box at Dad's house.

 

The one and only Blanche Barrow wife of Buck

 

Here ya go, built a few years ago as a rod, runs a Buick 215 V8.

 

This was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed a few years ago, absolutely fabulous!

 

Would love to find one,
the 215 v8 was american, then brit, now american again?? good engine.
good for 200 hp conservatively,
pretty sure it was used somewhat as input for the 3.8 v6 by buick,
another great engine..