1939 Advertisement for the upcoming 1940 model of the Willys Speedway
Category: Transportation
Whatever it takes to get to point A to point B… by air, rail, road or sea
301.129 mph
75 years ago, Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the 300 mph mark for the first time while driving the Blue Bird V at Daytona Beach. Florida.
The Blue Bird V, was powered by a 2,300 hp supercharged Rolls-Royce R V12. The 301.129 mph record held until November 1937 when British driver George Eyston driving Thunderbolt, achieving 312 mph.
The current record is 763.035 mph
1936 Luxtorpeda
Luxtorpeda (luxury torpedo) at Zakopane station, Poland, 1936
A Luxtorpeda consisted of a single, first-class only railcar
Motorcycle Drawn Chariot
Chariot of 1938 Ben Hur Drawn by Four Motorcycles
For the Ben Hur of the motor age, no four-horse team would do. Instead, the charioteer – stunting in a sports festival sponsored by a Potsdam regiment in Germany – rides on a rubber-tired chariot drawn by four motorcycles. “Reigns” in the driver’s hands lead to the handlebars of all four “bikes.” which are harnessed together by three horizontal bars. The harness recalls certain farm tractors which are controlled by reigns
Fly British Around the World
1938 Qantas Empire Airways advertising poster
Nothing Suggestive Going on Here…
A 1938 Chrysler Royal convertible being serviced in this Standard Oil promotional shot.
1951 GM LeSabre & 1938 Buick Y-Job
1951 GM LeSabre Concept (top) and 1938 Buick Y-Job.(GM Media Archive)
Motor-Cycle Fire Engine, 1938
The Incomparable Imperial
Details from various Imperial Crown advertisements from 1966.
Picture a walnut paneled office with leather upholstered chairs, copy transmitter-reciever, dictating machine, two telephones, conference table, typewriter, reading lamp, air conditioner, television set – and a 440 cu. in. V8 under it.
(ad copy for the Imperial Crown Coupe Mobile Director concept, which was for the car show circuit in 1966.)
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Deluge of Freak Aeroplanes
IF THE publishers of the Patent Office Gazette ever conclude to add a comic supplement to their weekly edition, we can supply them with all the material without their having to hunt in other divisions.” So spoke an official in the aeroplane and airship section of the examining division of the patent office at Washington, when asked as to the character of inventions now being offered for patent in this line.
“Before Wright startled the country with his flight of more than one hour over here at Fort Myer a couple of years ago,” continued the official, “there were not many applications of this kind filed. Since that time, however, they have steadily increased, until now we are getting them In at the rate of more than 150 a week. They are now far ahead of all other kinds of invention In number filed, and, I may add, in freakishness.
“The large majority offered are not allowed, and of these the public can know nothing. But these rejected ones have by no means a monopoly as examples of an unique form of lunacy. Continue reading “Deluge of Freak Aeroplanes”