John_Mereness Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Ralph Atkins and his Pierce Arrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 10 minutes ago, John_Mereness said: The registration plate is West Sussex from about 1938-39. The car is a circa 1929 Bentley 4 1/2 litre. Probably the fastest fire engine in England during WW2. From what I have found so far this car may not have survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John_Mereness Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) 1950's photo ? Webster Woodmansee's RR Edited June 11, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Ford Festival at Snellenburg's (sidenote: They all look thrilled to death) Edited June 11, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Mayor George L. Baker and unidentified men with car at Portland City Hall Edited June 11, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) Oregon Historical Society Edited June 11, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John_Mereness Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 (edited) 38 minutes ago, nzcarnerd said: The registration plate is West Sussex from about 1938-39. The car is a circa 1929 Bentley 4 1/2 litre. Probably the fastest fire engine in England during WW2. From what I have found so far this car may not have survived. This image is taken from a book I edited some years ago, 'Motor Mania' by Richard Sutton published by Collins and Brown (1996). The vertical crease is from the book's gutter. The original caption described the car as a 4.5 in use with the City of Chichester Auxiliary Fire Service during World War II.(The image was supplied by Quadrant Picture Library which no longer exists.) The license appears to have survived and is on a Bentley - these cars evolve though. This car - updatedChassis No. 54 Engine No. KM3097 Registration No. CPX 775 "My chassis 54 has been in the Fry family since 1933, and although I've been driving it for 20 years. I've only just bought it (Feb 2019)! Now that I've got all the paperwork, history and photographs, I note that some of the details previously submitted are incorrect. I'm also struggling to see where Clare Hay got some of her details re the first owner - W W Richards, March 1922. I'm certain that the first owner was J H Clay, who competed at Shelsley Walsh in the car in Sept 1922 and '23, and 24'. Edited June 11, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcarfudd Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 Maybe that's what inspired the quote attributed to Ettore Bugatti: "Bentley makes the world's fastest lorries." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 3 hours ago, John_Mereness said: https://mohistory.org/collections/item/N39770 AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITION, PACKARD MOTOR CAR CO. (1904 WORLD'S FAIR). Cool.......”Old Pacific” on the left. You can see it today at The Henry Ford”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 41 minutes ago, oldcarfudd said: Maybe that's what inspired the quote attributed to Ettore Bugatti: "Bentley makes the world's fastest lorries." Having driven all of the Bentlys , and a dozen Bugatti’s, I’ll take the WO’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzcarnerd Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, John_Mereness said: This image is taken from a book I edited some years ago, 'Motor Mania' by Richard Sutton published by Collins and Brown (1996). The vertical crease is from the book's gutter. The original caption described the car as a 4.5 in use with the City of Chichester Auxiliary Fire Service during World War II.(The image was supplied by Quadrant Picture Library which no longer exists.) The license appears to have survived and is on a Bentley - these cars evolve though. This car - updatedChassis No. 54 Engine No. KM3097 Registration No. CPX 775 "My chassis 54 has been in the Fry family since 1933, and although I've been driving it for 20 years. I've only just bought it (Feb 2019)! Now that I've got all the paperwork, history and photographs, I note that some of the details previously submitted are incorrect. I'm also struggling to see where Clare Hay got some of her details re the first owner - W W Richards, March 1922. I'm certain that the first owner was J H Clay, who competed at Shelsley Walsh in the car in Sept 1922 and '23, and 24'. Has to be later than 1922. Maybe that info was for another - 3 litre - car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I'll let Ed identify this "Pierce Arrow". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 AJ......it’s too new for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinmass Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Still runs and drive great.......and all original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukejunkie1015 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 President Harding's July 27, 1923, address at Husky Stadium in Seattle WA, in which he discussed Alaskan oil among other topics, was the last speech of his presidency. He died of pneumonia a few days later in San Francisco. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 1 hour ago, edinmass said: AJ......it’s too new for me. It was a trick question anyways. It's a souped up Lincoln, but the taillights had me thinking Pierce Arrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 4 hours ago, John_Mereness said: AUBURN 851 AMBULANCE Photo of Keith Cox seated the driver's seat of a 1930s era car in front of a business called Dexmann. There is a placard in the front window of the car that also reads Dexmann. The auto is quite long and is a hearse. Dexmann Funeral Home; found from other photos from the Cox Family Collection, that show the same subject from different angles, including the inside back of the hearse. I believe Auburn made their own hearse bodies in 1936. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukejunkie1015 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 In 1929, the Seattle Automobile Dealers Association joined with groups in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York to host a travelling auto show. The group brought more than a million dollars worth of cars to the Hec Edmondson Pavilion at the University of Washington. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ply33 Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 6 hours ago, John_Mereness said: https://mohistory.org/collections/item/P0403-05362-01-8n A wonderfully detailed and sharp photo of a 1934 Plymouth DeLuxe (engineering code PE) with a number of options (dual trumpet horns, bumper guards, passenger side wiper, etc.). License plate brackets front and rear but no license tags so I am assuming this is a brand new car at the time of the photo. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Friederich Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) A Fiat 501 2-door sedan with assymetrically placed doors photograped 1924 in Roslagen, Sweden. Very unusual with disk-wheels on a vintage Fiat, they were reserved for their taxi-cabs. I think the car belonged to Gustaf L. M. Ericsson, son of the Swedish telephone Pioneer. Edited June 12, 2020 by Casper Friederich (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 14 hours ago, nzcarnerd said: Has to be later than 1922. Maybe that info was for another - 3 litre - car. It appears to have lead a challenging early life: http://www.vintagebentleys.org/carpages/tb8628.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, 8E45E said: I believe Auburn made their own hearse bodies in 1936. Craig Central Manufacturing made the 1934-1936 bodies - it was a business under the E.L. Cord umbrella (and Limousine Body Company was also under the umbrella). I have heard Auburn referred to as component built cars, but they owned a fair amount of the component part company's so have never think of it that way. An Ambulance/hearse is basically a stretched sedan. As a sidenote: All of the bodies had steel body sill structure (sort of an "i-beam" affair) and all steel cowl construction too. The Phaeton (their "state of the art car") was all steel body construction car (with some wood for upholstery tacking), while the closed cars and the coupes/convertible coupes had a certain amount of wood construction. Unfortunately, they used "Poplar" for their wood and its longevity proved limited with even slight abuse. Edited June 12, 2020 by John_Mereness (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Friederich Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Philipson's ad for Cord on the back cover of Bonniers Månadsmagasin in 1930. Interesting as the front-wheel drive American is absent from the list of car models in the Royal Swedish Automobileclub's almanach/handbook for that year, eventhough Rolls-Royce and Isotta-Fraschini are listed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericmac Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 14 hours ago, 8E45E said: I believe Auburn made their own hearse bodies in 1936. Craig I have worked on this car. Underneath the upholstery, inside the driver's door is a baggie containing some of the cremains of an unknown person who never wanted to be separated from this car. Out of respect for that person we elected to leave them right there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Mereness Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 25 minutes ago, ericmac said: I have worked on this car. Underneath the upholstery, inside the driver's door is a baggie containing some of the cremains of an unknown person who never wanted to be separated from this car. Out of respect for that person we elected to leave them right there. I recall being over at a friends house while they were moving in and someone pulled an urn out of the fireplace and proclaimed it a cool brass jar, then they opened it up and proclaimed it an ashtray, and then saw there was a little piece of paper and reached in and pulled that out - "oh, .... - and none of us could get a word in edge wise fast enough to stop them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John_Mereness Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 Saw this on Facebook and fellow hand colors, but unfortunately did not record his name. A 1934 Auburn is on the right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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