1935 Cadillac Fleetwood Town Cabriolet & actress Marlene Dietrich, outside her dressing room at Paramount Studios.
Category: Transportation
Whatever it takes to get to point A to point B… by air, rail, road or sea
Social Distancing in 2022?
Article in December 1962 issue of Domenica Del Corriere.which is strangely relevant today.
“Will cities be like this? Here’s how the problem of traffic in cities could be lightened, if not completely solved: tiny single-seater cars that occupy a small area.”
Why Settle for Two When You Can Have Five!
An early off-road vehicle with five axles and ten wheels being tested in 1936
1949 Fageol Supersonic
Hindenburg, Before and After.
Hindenburg under construction, 1935
Hindenburg disaster May 6, 1937
Next Stop, China!
“My friends though I was crazy,” confesses Árpád Kirner, daring Hungarian scientist,” when I made known my intention to explore the crater of an active volcano – to descend its enormous pit, where explosions rapidly follow one another.” And where explosions come a thousand times faster – in your automobile engine – not even steel clothes and asbestos underwear help to give you a look-in. Otherwise what a sight for your eyes! You could witness what happens today after your Mileage Merchant makes the quick change to your correct Summer grade of Germ Processed oil that gives your engine OIL-PLATING…
Northrop YB-35
The Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 were experimental heavy bomber aircraft developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Army Air Forces during and shortly after World War II. The airplane used the radical and potentially very efficient flying wing design, in which the tail section and fuselage are eliminated and all payload is carried in a thick wing. (Wikipedia)
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Cop Spotter
Anita Page is shown utilizing her combination “cop spotter” and make up mirror. She claimed it “saved tickets as well as shiny noses.” She is sitting in her 1929 Isotta Fraschini Roadster. (March 19, 1929)
1937 Labatt Beer Truck
Famous auto designer Count Aleis de Sakhnoffsky designed an imaginative and remarkably large line of beer trucks for Labatt breweries in Canada. Canadian beermakers used coachwork trucks as rolling ads, because they weren’t allowed to advertise their products in print. (Hemmings Motor News)
1932 Auburn Speedster
Jean Harlow at the National Air Races of 1933 (Mines Field, Los Angeles), sitting upon her 1932 Auburn Speedster