1913 Wagenhals electric
Steve (most astounding researcher I've ever had the delightful priveledge to meet) was writing up about a call for bids for a contract to supply the Post Office with delivery vehicles, http://www.shorpy.com/node/12927#comment-136306 and one of the companies that respoonded was Wagenhals of Detroit, which made this electric, and a gas powered version.
The Post Office also ordered 21 Wagenhals Motor Car Company three-wheeled vehicles that had 800 pounds capacity. Powered by a 20 hp water-cooled four-cylinder engine, they cost $625 each (visually similar to the less expensive electric version below). Located in Detroit, the Wagenhals Motor Car Company would reorganize just a month later as simply the Wagenhals Motor Company. Both the Whites and the Wagenhals had to be delivered to Cleveland, Ohio within sixty days.
A year later the Post Office was advertising for bids for spare parts for these vehicles, which included: "Transmission and cup grease, horn bulbs, cylinder and heavy oil, blow out and tube patches, pressure gauges, cushion and pneumatic tires, inner tubes, tire tape, valve parts and tools, vulcanizing rubber, etc."
The winner of the bid had to supply each individual post office named in the contract, and the parts just couldn't be dumped in front—the bid proposal stipulated that "All the supplies must be delivered at and within the doors of the post offices."
The bid proposal noted that the Wagenhals had been dispersed as follows:
Columbia, S. C, 1 Wagenhals; Columbus, O., 2 Wagenhals; Detroit, 2 Wagenhals; Memphis, 3 Wagenhals; Nashville, 3 Wagenhals; Norfolk, Va., 2 Wagenhals; Richmond, Va., 2 Wagenhals.
More examples of Steve's incredible detective work are on his blog http://serviside.blogspot.com/
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brass era,
electric car,
informative,
postal delivery,
trivia,
unusual,
vintage
railroad station Magnolia Massachusetts
I don't know where I got the photo from
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brass era,
horse carriage,
vintage
the truth is often stranger than fiction, and forgotten in months after its out of the news.. here is something I've never learned of or heard of, the airmail transcontinental route markers
A couple months ago I learned about the elevated bicycling wood road from Pasadena to Los Angeles, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/07/forgotten-history-of-what-might-have.html and today Randy sent me an email about these large concrete markers that the airmail pilots used to stay on course from New York to San Fransisco, before electronic stuff like radar and radio direction finding, when all a pilot had was a compass and a map... and those weren't so great to use while airborne.
So these concrete arrows were made, painted yellow for daylight visibility, and lit with enormous light towers at night
the two maps below indicate the airfields used for refueling and food stops, not the arrows.
and Conde Nast Traveler http://www.cntraveler.com/daily-traveler/2013/06/transcontinental-air-mail-route-maphead-ken-jennings
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airplane,
historical,
history,
informative,
unusual,
vintage
BMW's "Cargo Donkey" is an obscure vehicle from a prominent car maker
found on http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/category/ovrigt-kul-pa-hjulmedarlarvfotter-med-mera.html
the F76 was made from 1932 to 1934
The oldest garage in Glenwood... the bikes are cool!
look how torn up the road is, must have predated the roads being laid out with beds
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antiques,
garage,
Indian,
Motorcycle,
Motorcycles,
vintage
the oldest railroad station / depot in the USA, (1830) in Ellicott City Maryland
the oldest surviving railroad station in America, and was the original terminus of the first 13 miles of commercial railroad in the country. The site features the Main Depot building, constructed in 1830-31; the freight house, designed by E. Francis Baldwin and built in 1885; a replica of the first horse-drawn passenger rail car, the Pioneer; and a 1927 "I-5" Caboose. Housed in the freight house is a 40-foot HO-gauge model train layout showing the original thirteen miles of commercial rail track stretching from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills
for more info: http://www.borail.org/Ellicott-City-Station.aspx
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antiques,
informative,
museum,
trains,
vintage
"the old tools know what they're doing" The most remarkable car restoration story, a 1911 Argyll and the tools that first made it 102 years ago are reunited
simply put, the Argyll car company employed Alex's grandfather as a coach builder, and he had to bring his own tools to work. The car you see in the rest of this gallery is a 1911 Argyll, and that means it's being restored by the grandson of it's first coachbuilder.
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from just one of drawers of tools (in the background) that Alex's family has passed down from his grandfather, and there you have the tools and the car reunited, in the hands of the grandson. Remarkable!
When we were discussing his grandfathers tools, he talked about a conversation he'd had with someone, who asked about using the old tools versus new ones, and his reply? " The old tools know what they're doing"
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and unfortunately, the body didn't make it through the years in very much more than a pile of driftwood
This is the same Alex that needs a Frontenac SR overhead cam and a 1909 Phoenix rear axle for a 2 cylinder 8/10hp
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/alex-and-sandy-need-help-finding.html
