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Showing posts with label Selden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Selden. Show all posts
Thursday, August 4, 2011
a variety of interesting things found while browsing through the library online photos
0 comments Posted by st at 8:26 PM
George B. Selden in his first automobile, patented 1895... but marked 1877 because that was the year he made it. 
a photo of the first automobile
1886 Benz
1903 Olds Pirate, a one cylinder special race car that held a record for the one mile speed record
1907 sports racer
1906 Stanley
Suposed to be the first limo in America
J. M. Quinby & Company; Builders of aluminum automobile bodies 1909
Mercer
I noticed the odd sign above the storefront "Automobile Jobbers"
1944 east 138th street ... and that truck bed in the bottom of the photo looks handmade, and put into the rumble seat area... was the neat trick to shift a car classification during fuel rationing during WW2 from car to commercial truck and then it could get more gas more often if I recall correctly.. and this is a 1944 photo
Electric car about 1905, on the charger in the garage
the caption on the side says "Brooklyn Auto Graveyard"
The Czar leaving the racecourse at Krasnoe Selo, in his 40 horse-power Delaunay Belleville in 1909
Above racing at Indy
Above and below, racing at Ormand Beach
Barney Oldfield in the advertising
the trophys from the 1908 Prince Henry tour
1922 advertisement
the caption to the above drawing seems to be "When Greek meets Greek" and I don't understand it
this advertisement was captioned "his Herreshoff car"
The Pullman car Palmyra
Tenth Avenue and 29th Street, Manhattan. December 23, 1935
found while searching around at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Corbin 4 Passenger baby tonneau
Corbin 4 passenger roadster
Notice in the above description the roadster is said to have a "mechanician's" seat. What the hell? I've learned a new word! According to Wikipedia a mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, It is also the term by which makers of mechanical automata use in reference to their profession.
found among hundreds of great old car catalogs at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:454055&slabel=Automobiles%253A%2520Manufacturers%2520catalogues%252E&sScope=images&sLevel=1
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