Period images to relieve some of the stress

[BobinVirginia]

I’m reminded of a phrase my pops would say, You couldn’t turn that thing around in a forty acre field! Lol

Edited May 2, 2022 by BobinVirginia (see edit history)

[twin6]

[twin6]

I love the look of this top ("hood" to our viewers in the UK).  Not sure about the make of car, I think I once knew based on location of the cowl lamps which clearly are not on the cowl, but am having a brain fade.  Speedwell?

Edited May 2, 2022 by twin6
add Speedwell (see edit history)

[8E45E]

12 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:

This one came up on a facebook page with no info. Fairly obviously New York by the plates which date the photo to 1913. Some brief research found another source which gives the date as 10 July 1913.

 

There seems to be little historical info on New York's early buses. I have no idea what makes these are.  

 

 

 

 

 

The second photo I found on the net. Similar era but no info re the make.

 

 

 

The bus on the right in the top photo is a DeDion.  

 

Craig

[twin6]

More Moxie!

[nzcarnerd]

3 hours ago, 8E45E said:

The bus on the right in the top photo is a DeDion.  

 

Craig

I thought the same but I think they were not the only one to use that radiator design.

 

EDIT - seem it is a De Dion, Someone found an enlargeable copy of the photo - 

 

[nzcarnerd]

On 5/1/2022 at 1:14 AM, twin6 said:

The car with the tall radiator filler, in the centre of the photo behind the balding guy in the light coloured coat might be a Royal Tourist - 

 

[paulrhd29nz]

On 4/28/2022 at 11:52 AM, edinmass said:

 

 

Fill her up.......check the oil. 

 

 

A 27 Essex boat tail. 

[BobinVirginia]

@Walt G

 

Not only is this just fun and interesting to see the pictures, it’s really a valuable tool for learning car makes. There’s been several cars shown here that I had no clue about and someone has educated me. Thanks for starting this Walt! 

[Walt G]

Bob, my pleasure for starting this. I have been very lucky to have had the opportunity over the decades to see a lot of period photographs and images. Heck I was librarian for Austin Clark at his home library for several years and had access to everything he had in his library ( including the 47 four drawer steel filing cabinets with glass plate negatives that were the Mack truck archives) and it is just such a great pleasure/honor to be able to see period images - you are transported back in time by that frozen image. It is such an education just to see the vehicles, buildings, cloths, signs etc. and this is what our host AACA is all about - not just a car club , but the preservation of history.  I am so happy and proud that many people have taken the time to make an effort to share their photographs with us - many are not members of AACA ( come on fellows join!) and many from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

Honestly I thought this thread would last about 3 months - maybe, then fade. I knew of about half dozen friends who I could con - er persuade 😇 to contribute a few photos from their collection to keep it going for a few weeks  and here it is a few years later. It's all good , but we owe it all to AACA and their moderators and the staff at HQ for being so nice to host and give us a place to share.

Walt

[nzcarnerd]

Well disguised but must be identifiable - 4 July 1899. I am surprised they had an automobile club that early.

 

[oldcarfudd]

I'd have thought those big metal-framed plate-glass windows were more recent than 1899.  Is the car a Duryea?

[ply33]

30 minutes ago, oldcarfudd said:

I'd have thought those big metal-framed plate-glass windows were more recent than 1899.  Is the car a Duryea?

Cast iron store front assemblies with large windows were quite the thing in the late 1800s. They were pre-fabricated and could be easily shipped by rail across the country and gave the building/store owner a way to build a modern facade for their store for a reasonable price. Here is one page that talks a bit about that era: https://dahp.wa.gov/local-preservation/main-street-program/cast-iron-storefronts-systems and some photos https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cast+iron+store+front&atb=v220-1&iax=images&ia=images

[nzcarnerd]

Going by the women's clothing the photo is post WW2 but the cars are definitely prewar. A 1931 Chev and a circa 1934 SS1 having a disagreement in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

 

The state of the tyre treads reflect the short life and perhaps limited availability of the correct size tyres at the time.

 

[Walt G]

OK, some one has to say it - that is quite a side mounted spare tire..................includes a complete car..

[wayne sheldon]

Walt G, Now, THAT is funny!

[hook]

8 hours ago, Walt G said:

OK, some one has to say it - that is quite a side mounted spare tire..................includes a complete car..

No, No, No Walt. That's an "overpass"

[oldcarfudd]

Thank you, ply33.  It's always good to learn something new.

[nzcarnerd]

Does the make Vindex mean anything  to anybody?  This ad appeared in the Northern Advocate newspaper in Whangarei, New Zealand, in November 1917. It would appear that maybe Mr Thomas may have imported the cars to sell and run into financial trouble(?). It is possible of course that he may have been called up for military service.

 

As far as I know there are no surviving Cole or Lexington cars in NZ.

 

[nzcarnerd]

Whangarei, New Zealand. Date uncertain but probably very soon after WW1. Timewell and King were butchers.

 

Dodge Brothers truck I presume. When did they get into trucks? Or could this be an early Graham Bothers?

 

[twin6]

Great signage.  Car = Pathfinder?

[LCK81403]

According to photos I have, it does indeed look very similar to a 1913 Pathfinder.

[LCK81403]

Regarding the "Vindex".  A lot of searching the WWW has failed to locate a Vindex automobile.  However, the name Vindex is associated with cast metal toys (automobiles and farm tractors) in the approximate 1920s era.

[JRA]

2 hours ago, LCK81403 said:

Regarding the "Vindex".  A lot of searching the WWW has failed to locate a Vindex automobile.  However, the name Vindex is associated with cast metal toys (automobiles and farm tractors) in the approximate 1920s era.

I only found VINDEC, the export brand of Allright, a German auto manufacturer from 1908 to 1911. 
 

[1937hd45]

On 5/3/2022 at 8:29 PM, ply33 said:

Cast iron store front assemblies with large windows were quite the thing in the late 1800s. They were pre-fabricated and could be easily shipped by rail across the country and gave the building/store owner a way to build a modern facade for their store for a reasonable price. Here is one page that talks a bit about that era: https://dahp.wa.gov/local-preservation/main-street-program/cast-iron-storefronts-systems and some photos https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cast+iron+store+front&atb=v220-1&iax=images&ia=images

We spent a few hours in Virginia City, Nevada this past summer. Shocked to find out it is on the side of a hill, not dead flat as in most Western movies. I'd say 75% of the buildings had cast iron storefronts, tall windows and ceilings.

 

Bob

[ply33]

1 hour ago, 1937hd45 said:

We spent a few hours in Virginia City, Nevada this past summer. Shocked to find out it is on the side of a hill, not dead flat as in most Western movies. I'd say 75% of the buildings had cast iron storefronts, tall windows and ceilings.

 

Bob

Many (most?) old western movie and TV shows were filmed on sets within 50 or so miles of Hollywood and bear little resemblance to much of the west in either landscape or building styles.

[nzcarnerd]

Shared from a facebook page on which one Geoff Hunt shared this image from The Texas Collection. Location Franklin Ave, Waco, Texas.  

 

I think the touring car and the roadster are new Overlands but the limo looks older and probably another brand? Hudson??

 

 

 

In response to that photo Bob Compere commented that his grandfather had a Studebaker dealership right across the street - 

 

 

 

[nzcarnerd]

A group of photos taken at the occasion of the opening of the new dairy factory in Maungaturoto, Northland, New Zealand, on 23 November 1934. Tudor Collins took a  lot of photos in the area during his time.

 

Collins, Tudor Washington – Dictionary of New Zealand Biography – Te Ara

 

Tudor Collins – photographer — National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy (navymuseum.co.nz)

 

The photos highlight that up to that time the NZ car market was dominated by American makes, mainly due to their ruggedness and ability to withstand the poor roads. By the late 1930s government controls meant that the market came to be dominated by British cars. They also highlight that almost no new cars were imported to NZ in the years 1931 to 1933.

 

I think the majority of the cars will be readily identifiable. Makes popular in the US were also popular here.

 

 

 

 

 

[JRA]

1927 Studebaker ??

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in front of the entrance gate of the city slaughterhouse. The old gate still exists.

Edited May 7, 2022 by JRA (see edit history)

[nzcarnerd]

The plane is French  - Latécoère 28 - Wikipedia - whether this one has the Renault or the Hispano engine I don't know. Date is circa 1930.

 

I think the car is a Graham-Paige. 

 

[keiser31]

41 minutes ago, nzcarnerd said:

The plane is French  - Latécoère 28 - Wikipedia - whether this one has the Renault or the Hispano engine I don't know. Date is circa 1930.

 

I think the car is a Graham-Paige. 

 

That car sure has a lot of 1928-29 Ford in it except for the wheels.

Edited May 8, 2022 by keiser31 (see edit history)

[nzcarnerd]

From the Arthur Rothstein legacy Project -

 

Going to Church to Pray for Rain.
Near Grassy Butte, North Dakota. July 1936
Photograph by Arthur Rothstein
It’s difficult to overstate the intensity of the heatwave that gripped much of the US in July and August of 1936. Eleven states including North Dakota experienced their highest-ever temperatures that sizzling summer. Many of these records remain unbroken or were broken only by our frequent twenty-first century heatwaves. 
In the spring of 1936, Arthur Rothstein had documented horrific Dust Bowl conditions in the southern Great Plains. As summer advanced, he drove north into the scorching heat on assignment for the US Resettlement Administration. An official in the agency’s Washington office wrote to him on July 14, “Your decision to go into the drought area is [very good news].”  The letter adds a few supplementary details to his assignment. “[Be] on the lookout for these pictures (1) Livestock needing water. (2) Needy families—people evacuating. (3) Pictures of children. (4) Crops stunted, burned up. (5) Farms closed down.”  Rothstein found those images, plus one more that satisfied a final request. (6) “[Show people] going to or coming from church.” 

 

[nzcarnerd]

More photos from Tudor Collins. In this set a North Auckland Electric Power Board lines crew take a break at the Maungatapu Hotel in Northland, New Zealand. The photo date is probably post WW2 but it not later than 1 July 1946 when a new series of registration plates was issued. Up to 1941 new plates were issued every year but as a steel saving measure the 1941 plates (as seen in these photos) were retained until 1946. It must have seemed a good idea as from then on until the introduction of permanent plates in 1964 new plates were only issued every five years. I think the larger truck is an International.

 

 

 

 

[nzcarnerd]

Scott Shephard's great grandfather (on the right in the photo) in Central Newfoundland. The car is a 1933 Continental Flyer - 

 

[nzcarnerd]

[58L-Y8]

Here's a better look at the 1933 Continental Flyer.

[pre10]

7 hours ago, nzcarnerd said:

Late 1912 or early 1913?

[jukejunkie1015]

At least the flat is at home.

[LCK81403]

Mighty scary looking tire tread.  Is this a Stutz?

[edinmass]

On 5/6/2022 at 5:49 PM, 1937hd45 said:

We spent a few hours in Virginia City, Nevada this past summer. Shocked to find out it is on the side of a hill, not dead flat as in most Western movies. I'd say 75% of the buildings had cast iron storefronts, tall windows and ceilings.

 

Bob

 

Several years ago, driving through the desert on the way up the hill to Virginia City in my 36 Pierce V-12 my side kick said…….I just saw a stove vent topper for a Pierce Arrow Travelodge trailer poking up through some bushes. I said…….pull you head out of your xxx, your high. He bet me lunch……..we turned around, and I lost and bought lunch…..……..it was there, intact and sitting on the lot for 60 years. Took some time, and found the owner in Hawaii. Needless to say……….we brought it home 8 months later. It didn’t make financial sense……but buying a Pierce Arrow sitting on the side of the road out in the open while on tour in a Pierce Arrow was a unique experience. There were wild horses literally running around the place. Another of my stories to put into a book someday.

Edited May 8, 2022 by edinmass (see edit history)