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  1. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    Nifty second life for a Ford.
  2. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    A Bugatti Type 35, no less.
  3. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    Thanks to: https://sivustot.kaleva.fi/aine/2016/12/27/mika-tarina-suomen-vanhimman-autoliikkeen/
  4. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    Just a Tudor, but certainly a commercial application.
  5. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    Here's another image from the H.A.M.B. site. Any thoughts on what's going on here?
  6. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    1930 Goodyear Airship Services “AA” at the Florence Avenue plant, Los Angeles. In keeping with Goodyear’s promotion of blimps as “yachts of the skies,” “Pilgrim” and “Volunteer” were named after America’s Cup contenders. “Pilgrim” was Goodyear’s first civilian blimp. Launched in 1925 and...
  7. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    In keeping with a picture being worth 1,000 words... here's 2,000 words' worth. I couldn't resist melding the old and new images of the Davenport Hotel. Despite differences in lenses, angles, etc., etc., I'm pleased with the results. Living in a home that's been continuously occupied since...
  8. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    Oh, oh! In the 1915 image the gentleman standing on the ramp behind and downslope from the "T" sedan has failed to tuck his necktie into his shirt between the 3rd and 4th buttons, as I was taught to do by my 7th grade shop teacher... in case of tie clip failure. All the more reason to wear a...
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    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    Always great to find another print reference to a color depicted in a black and white photo. Of course, the reporter did not have access to the judging standards, else he would have chosen among "Niagara Blue Light, Arabian Sand Dark, Dawn Gray Dark, Gunmetal Blue, or Niagara Blue Dark." How...
  10. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    Looking at that 1915 image I can't help but notice that there's a rear seat passenger as well as a driver in the "T" sedan! Did he lose a bet? The winch cable is evident. Absent a cable, I wonder if the "T" could have climbed that ramp... in reverse, of course. Going down would be another...
  11. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    The Beardmore building, which housed a number of businesses in addition to the Beardmore family hardware store, is in Priest River, about 50 miles NW of Spokane. The Beardmores also had holdings in logging and sawmills in the region, so they had the riggers, haulage equipment and timber ramps...
  12. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    Spokane Chronicle, December 2, 1927. Front page.
  13. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    The Spokane Daily Chronicle had a front page picture of the New Ford interior on Saturday, December 3, 1927, and a large ad on Monday. December 5th. Still looking for news articles about the debut.
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    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    No prize but a big "thanks" for a job well done. I searched for hotel postcards from every state north of North Carolina from Maine west to Iowa.... but I fell asleep before I got to Washington State! Isn't that a great picture, and wasn't the search fun? Now, my pro genealogist wife would...
  15. John Butts in CT

    December, 1927 Introduction Mystery

    The attached image appeared recently on the HAMB historic photos thread. I believe it's a shot of a 1928 Tudor being removed from a hotel ballroom after the "New Ford's" introduction gala. I say "after" because the Tudor is not under wraps. The men's clothing and the radiator cover on the...
  16. John Butts in CT

    Model A commercial vehicles picture thread!!

    They seem to agree that whitewalls should be white on both sides. Cheaper that way.
  17. John Butts in CT

    Model "A" Fords Capture Fred "Killer" Burke

    Thanks very much! Lots of Model A detail if you watch closely.
  18. John Butts in CT

    Old Ford Pictures - social group

    In the rear view it looks like the plate is in DEEP shadow from the trunk. The last digit is even obscured. I've always understood that 1928 California plates were a deep royal blue with orange letters, so the rear plate looks fine to me. As for the front view, I'm puzzled. Any reason that...
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