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Mom with the family's 1931 Chevrolet four door sedan, St. Cloud, Minnesota.

The 1903 Stirling Dogcart. Reportedly it could do 35 miles per gallon of petrol. Amazingly enough, 117 years later, we still have a lot of cars on the road that can not do 35 mpg.

The 1906 Swift (U.K.) had a three cylinder engine. Perhaps the doctor could receive vibration massage while he drove to see a patient, or to the office.

The 1905 Cupelle (U.K.) had a seriously large windscreen for its size.

1922 Calcott, built in Coventry, England.

1935 Armstrong Siddeley. Buy a car made in the United Kingdom.

The stunt with a collapsing Model T in this clip is done by Buster Keaton. Will Rogers did a similar stunt with a car that shed its parts as he drove toward the camera. If anyone knows of an explanation of this stunt it may be interesting. It appears that the Model T is coming apart even before it hits the ditch in the road. The sides of the body are falling outward. As the car's front wheels just start into the ditch the wheels are already askew and apparently detached from the axle shafts. As Keaton climbs off of the wreck he right foot touches the ground at the same time the right front fender ghosts into view and lodges against the wheel. The pile of sheet metal suggests there is no engine nor transmission, and the radiator disappeared somehow. The special effects people did a pretty good job back in the day. Watch the driver of the car because there is a stunt man actually "driving" and he is replaced by Keaton. It happens quickly but by focusing on the driver position one can see a man wearing a pork pie hat, while Keaton is wearing a straw hat.

The 1915 Pneumobile had pneumatic cylinders for suspension, no metal springs.

The bookmobile could be on a Meiselbach truck chassis. It resembles this 1908 Meiselbach truck in ad in the Cycle and Automobile Trade Journal, Philadelphia, January 1, 1908, page 267.

I have been a licensed amateur radio operator for 56 years and in that time I have never seen HAM equipment like those women HAMs are using. A female HAM is either a unmarried "YL", or a married "XYL". Perhaps some of my HAM buddies can I.D. the equipment. It is pretty low power equipment judging by the antenna, probably well less than 5 watts. The unit on the ground would radiate a unique pattern while sitting so close to the steel car body.

Yow, I can't unsee this. It makes a '50 Nash potato bug look better.

We lived in a different time that will never be repeated. A barbeque sandwich for 15 cents, curb side service. According to an online inflation calculator, fifteen cents in 1950 equates to $1.60 in 2020. Hard to believe. You can’t get a cheap drive-through restaurant's see-through hamburger for a $1.60.

1918 Buick

1916 Reo

1907 Brush with the wood axle.

1927 International truck

1927 Autocar truck

Casper and Walt, thank you for the information about the Panhard-Levassor. I see this thread as being about learning as well as nice photos. I had not known about snake skin upholstery in cars and possibly women's coats. It is interesting that snake skin was considered a luxury item. During the American Civil War the Confederate military had a shortage of leather (cattle) and they resorted manufacturing saddles and boots from alligator. Imagine that, today's luxury alligator products were then used for boots and saddles. Having lived in Arizona and now in southwestern Colorado, snakes (poisonous) are not viewed as luxury.

Help with this photo will be appreciated. Somehow I have "Picard" attached to this photo, maybe identifying the car as such. I have searched the WWW but can not find a Picard brand name auto. Is the auto in the photo a U.S. or European vehicle? There was a "Pickard" automobile but it went defunct in 1912.

The Automatic Electric delivery vehicle is interesting and is the first I have seen. A photo of a 1921 Automatic Electric clearly shows how small the vehicle was; smaller than a modern golf cart.

The photo of the Saxon-Duplex with the one horsepower spare engine in the body got me to looking in my Saxon file. Floyd Clymer published a 1923 Saxon-Duplex Blackstone touring car in his Motor Scrapbook Number 8, page 186.

Following the mystery of the Birch automobile. The dog in this photo was in the Little Rascal's series. What is the name of the dog?

'31 Studebaker President Roadster. Love the huge headlights.

'31 Cord. The short text carries interesting information about the color scheme. "Of singular distinctiveness is this new Cord, wherein LeGrande combines two shades of capucine for the fenders, moldings and lower body, all set off by flame striping."

'28 Cadillac Brougham and the '31 Cadillac Fleetwood.