Must have been getting some Red Cross training on how to be ambulance drivers. Yale should have gotten training on lettering their ambulance
Found on http://www.shorpy.com/node/16307
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Saturday, March 28, 2015
Yale and Harvard students near the Washington Monument, 1919
Must have been getting some Red Cross training on how to be ambulance drivers. Yale should have gotten training on lettering their ambulance
Found on http://www.shorpy.com/node/16307
Friday, March 27, 2015
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The REO Mountaineer endurance run from New York to San Francisco and back in 1906
Percy Megargel and David Fassett in the Bronx at the end of their 10-month, 11,000-mile trip in a 16-horsepower REO touring car.
Why did they do it? Well, Old Steady and Old Scout had just made an endurance run http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/12/old-scout-and-old-steady-endurance-race.html and Megargel was one of the drivers!
AND Ransom Olds had a reputation to create with the REO, now that he wasn't running Oldsmobile. So he hired the most likely guy to pull it off, and paired him with a respected REO mechanic
Photos found on http://www.zazzle.com/reo_mountaineer_returns_to_new_york_1905_posters-228005652756927057 and info from http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/americanautomobiles10.htm
Mr. Megargel made the trip in the interest of the American Motor League, to gather reliable data with regard to the condition of the roads, the grades to be encountered, streams to be forded, distances from place to place, available stopping places and gasoline supply houses. The trip west was by the Northern route—practically the same as that traversed in the recent race to Portland in the Old Steady; from Portland he went south to San Francisco, and then returned to New York by way of Salt Lake City and Denver.
The Reo Mountaineer, was a regular stock touring car, of 16 rated horsepower. It was fitted with removable front seat, which permitted its occupants to sleep aboard. A 3-inch windlass was built into the front of the frame, to be turned by a 14-inch detachable crank, for the purpose of aid in ascending unusual grades, or drawing the car through the many mud holes so often encountered in the Western roads.
Percy and David declared that, in the Mountaineer, they could accomplish the first round trip journey from New York to San Francisco and back to New York in an automobile. They estimated 112 days to achieve this feat, which actually took ten months to finish.
The car was sucked into the quicksand of a river once, and three weeks later a flood from snow melt revealed the car again... and off they went.
The clippings are original Motor Way and Automobile articles and advertising for the REO, from Google Books. It's an amazing resource for 109 year old magazines!
Two years earlier, there had been three notable transcontinental runs: Jackson and Crocker in the Winton, Whitman and Hammond in the Oldsmobile, and Fetch and Krarup in the Packard, all going from west to east.
For a detailed synopsis of these runs, see Scientific American, Jan 13th 1906, pages 24 and 25 https://books.google.com/books?id=nqMzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=Megargel+Fassett+REO+Mountaineer&source=bl&ots=vB6HpKuwyY&sig=4m1vNxpEWVKsnr0PLnV-hRUevjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cjn1VPH9AsjLoATl5oLoAQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
But an even better write up that Google scanned at an easier size and clarity to read is in "The Strand" magazine, volume 31, pages 513 to 521 and can be seen here: https://books.google.com/books?id=eLQvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA519&lpg=PA519&dq=Megargel+Fassett+REO+Mountaineer&source=bl&ots=4NvFGMCmYX&sig=Q0FhAfmNPn98xFqqIJyzDNawFTM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r0j1VJz8CojooATKnYD4AQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=Megargel%20Fassett%20REO%20Mountaineer&f=false
Percy Megargel wrote up a book of the experience of transcontinental endurance runs in the book, The Car and The Lady
which can be read online at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007667025
Or purchased for around 30 dollars on ABE books, Ebay, or Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Car-Lady-Percy-F-Megargel/dp/1290087792/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1425357564&sr=8-1&keywords=car+and+the+lady+megargel
Monday, March 2, 2015
steam shovels have always been interesting to me, when I was a tyke I liked the book Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, funny how that sorta thing sticks with you
Anyone else remember Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne?
vintage photos from Shorpy.com and the rest from Google books
Saturday, February 28, 2015
1922 kids, cops, business men and a street car in Washington DC
It looks like the business guys are cheering on the kids who seem to be running a baton passing and the cops might be acting as a race escort.
Found on http://www.shorpy.com/node/18028
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Only famous and remarked on because a 1980's band chose the name, the REO Speedwagon
above you can see the logo on the gas tank next to the steering wheel... I have only seen one in person, it was similar to the above http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/05/reo-speedwagon.html
Both images from Shorpy.com which has had a remarkable lot of vehicle photos recently
Bottom image from 1922 http://www.shorpy.com/node/18307
a terrific photo of the grand opening of a Goodyear Tire location... and some details of that shot have some cool things
cool photo huh!
but when you look close at the cluster of cars, you can see the impeccably dressed gas pump attendents, in white with hats.... and the 4 pumps per island. See the delivery truck? Baffle Bar? Pepper Tree? Huh.... no wonder it's not around now a days
and the miniature blimps, and off to the far left the big tread demonstration vehicle.
They must have been selling a lot of gas, as the fuel tanker is right on site to make sure they didn't go dry.
Monday, February 23, 2015
What we now think of as buses had humble beginnings
Just behind that grouchy looking businessman is the sign that says it's his bus.
It's a Studebaker too, and you've probably been reading long enough to know how long Studebaker was making wagons, then cars, as I've covered that a couple times.
Found on http://www.shorpy.com/ where a hell of a lot of history is there for the learning, and I know for a fact that the 1895-1915 era of Washington DC and New York photos can show you an incredible amount of taxi, bus, and tour bus history
Selfie photos, nothing new... here is one from 1905
Found on the only other website I know of that digs photography, and trains... http://www.shorpy.com/
A Peerless watering down the roads to help stop some flu epidemic (if I recall the notes correctly)
the two things you might be thinking are
Where the hell did find these? Well, if you want to see some real history and not the censored blather in your history books, go look through Shorpy.com http://www.shorpy.com/ the only site I know of that you can get an education from just browsing through and reading the captions... it's just old photos, and so many readers and fans add details in the comments of the photos, you really ought to check those too on photos you're most interested in.
The other thing you might be thinking is .. Peerless made tanker trucks?
Shorpy.com, long esteemed source of really old photos, has much more vehicle content now, than the last time I had time to admire the photography there... take a look at this Jordan on a fresh buldozed road
Shorpy never used to have such a cool set of photos from an old promo photo shoot.. this is very cool!
http://www.shorpy.com/
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