Showing posts with label Shorpy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shorpy. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What do you make of this? 1910 Memphis Tennessee street photo caught a Model T Town Car... rare. Steve dug into the research for the ID and numbers

clipped from a much bigger photo http://www.shorpy.com/node/9647?size=_original1909-1910 Ford towncar compared to landaulet - the only difference is that the landaulet ($1,100) does not have a covered drivers compartment and the towncar ($1,200) does.  1909 -  236 produced; 284 sold .  1910 -  377 produced; 304 soldThe grids in the sidewalk on the top of the photo are glass blocks in the sidewalk

Monday, July 11, 2011

Pere Marquette Railroad parlor car No. 25, 1905

http://www.shorpy.com/node/9955?size=_originalassigned to the western shores of the lower peninsula of Michigan between Ludington and Frankfort. vacation service on trains No. 1 and 5, and Nos. 9 and 10, the Resort Special.  for 1905 of the Great Central route stopped at Little Manistee River (Fishing Camp) when signaled, an indication of casual operation in good old summer days. The car was

Draper the tire salemans Dodge, with Trublpruf solid rubber cross drilled tires, never will go flat

Below photo is from the front window display of his business http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/trublpruf-tires-by-lambert.htmlhttp://www.shorpy.com/node/9969Tires were flat so often, that this solution was considered a great idea, and cars didn't driver very fast, since roads were in such terrible condition, and there were very few miles of paved road in the entire country of the US

Sunday, July 10, 2011

1910 Salem Massachusetts train station

this is just a small part of http://www.shorpy.com/node/9975?size=_original and the building is the same as the below photo