Eye-catching black and whites

[artdjones]

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[martc]

Bank, 1934.

[martc]

[martc]

Stalcup, a lighting company in Kansas City, and their 'Nightrider' car. The driver went around inspecting all the neon signs and recorded any bulbs that were out. The back of the Nightrider was filled with a generator to light up the car, which had no air conditioning! @LightBulbFun

 

[Remspoor]

[martc]

Romulo Bosch out on a test run in Barcelona in 1913. It has an Anzani triple engine spinning an unprotected (and effectively invisible) 1.8m propeller. It was claimed to do 50mph at 1900 rpm. By replacing the wheels with skids or floats it could be used on water or snow, What could possibly go wrong?

[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

23 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Austin A35 [A30] van or perhaps Countryman [Countryman] in the ditch. A tough shell so it would give some protection in a roll like that.  Pre 'anti-burst' door locks - these Austins had a simple latch mechanism - so the driver's door is opened and deformed. Let's hope whoever was in it got out OK all those years ago.

Interesting that it's a VW van that is the other vehicle - VW still with us and Austin gone decades ago.

Ireland.

[lesapandre]

On 04/10/2024 at 21:37, D.E said:

It's like a 1950s American shiter meet! The three wheeler behind the utility pole is presumably a Davis Divan.

2nd from left is a Rolls Royce. Looks like a US bodied car - chassis were exported to be clothed in the US.

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

2nd from left is a Rolls Royce. Looks like a US bodied car - chassis were exported to be clothed in the US.

There was briefly an RR plant in the US; the depression killed it.

[MiniMinorMk3]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Austin A35 van or perhaps Countryman in the ditch. A tough shell so it would give some protection in a roll like that.  Pre 'anti-burst' door locks - these Austins had a simple latch mechanism - so the driver's door is opened and deformed. Let's hope whoever was in it got out OK all those years ago.

Interesting that it's a VW van that is the other vehicle - VW still with us and Austin gone decades ago.

Ireland.

It's an Austin A30 Countryman. It has the chrome grille and no indicators. Also you can see the chrome strip that was around the side windows. The VW is a pre-1955 model that does not have the extended peak over the windscreen.

22 hours ago, Remspoor said:

 

[lesapandre]

[Remspoor]

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

"Unt ziz iz not vot ve call ze Woollard !"

[MiniMinorMk3]

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[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

[Remspoor]

[MiniMinorMk3]

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[lesapandre]

2 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Interesting picture - the car third right is an Envoy - an export Vauxhall Viva badged Envoy.

[MiniMinorMk3]

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[Madman Of The People]

1 hour ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

Park Avenue Chevrolet-Oldsmobile (and they apparently sold Cadillacs at some point, too) in St. Leonard, (now part of Montreal) Quebec.  Long gone by the look of it.  There's a dealership today called Hamel Chevrolet-Buick-GMC in St. Leonard, which could possibly be the descendant of Park Avenue, but I can't tell for certain.

The white car on the right, behind the Chevrolet Corvairs, is an Envoy Epic, a rebadged Vauxhall Viva HA for the Canadian market.  Envoys were sold by Canadian Chevrolet dealers and Canadian Pontiac dealers also sold the same cars badged as Vauxhalls.  This photo appears to be from 1964, as the trim strip on the front of the Corvair in the foreground is unique to the 1964 models.  1964 was also the year the Envoy Epic was introduced to Canada.

A history of Envoy cars in Canada can be found here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envoy_(automobile)

 

[MrT]

On 05/10/2024 at 12:16, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Now, even I know that in the late forties and fifties American car styles were influenced by contemporary aerospace concepts. However, basing your car on a trainer (the T33 Shooting Star, a derivative of the F80) seems a tad uninspired. Mind you looking at some early 1930's French bombers, they are clearly based on garden sheds, conservatories etc.