The King of Flexibility
Category: Transportation
Whatever it takes to get to point A to point B… by air, rail, road or sea
Limousine Side Car, 1930
A Limousine Side Car. The Latest in motorcycle luxuries, exhibited in London, has an inclosed body with sliding roof and windows, leather upholstery, and dashboard conveniences. At the rear is a luggage compartment which locks. (New Ideas and Inventions, Popular Science Monthly, April, 1930)
Imperial Airways, 1930s
Imperial passengers in 1934 could get from London to Singapore at a cost of £180 ($230.00). Included in the price was hotel accommodations, food, and nearly everything else but alcohol. The 8,458 mile trek took 8 days, making stops in Paris, Brindisi, Athens, Alexandria, Cairo, Gaza, Baghdad, Basra, Kuwait, Bahrain, Sharjah, Gwadar, Karachi, Jodhpur, Delhi, Cawnpore, Allabad, Calcutta, Akgats, Rangoon, Bangkok and Alor Star. Continue reading “Imperial Airways, 1930s”
A Two Cigarette Job, 1939
The repair job was so difficult it required two cigarettes to calm his nerves!
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Car-‘phone, 1934
Soviet Glider Boat, 1937
Greyhound Bus Station, 1937
Greyhound Bus Station, NYC, Penn Station sits in the background
Oldsmobile 6 & 8, 1937
Bumblebee Craft, 1933
The bumblebee craft was the product of a Belgian inventor. It was a flying machine with an immense air-sack at the rear, looking like the segmented abdomen of an insect. In landing, the machine was supposed to drop backward to the ground, striking on this air-bag, the segments of which would telescope together to break the fall!
Zeppelin over Estonia, 1930
First Zeppelin appearance over Tallinn, Estonia, 1930
