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The Burney R-100 Rear-Engined Streamline was designed and built in England by Sir Charles Dennison Burney who earlier engineered the R-100 airship. Next turning to automobiles, he came up with this interesting Streamline design based on a modified Alvis chassis. Only about a dozen R-100’s were built at Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK between 1929 to ’31,…
Today we return to the “Images from the River Rouge” series with another set of interesting pictures by photographers who were employed by the Ford Motor Company. The lead image taken in July of 1935 contains four workers on the fuel tank assembly line. The two men wearing hoods used to lessen their exposure to the…
Today’s featured image taken on August 6, 1921 contains a view of a section of the three and one half mile long Boulevard of the Allies that runs eastward from the downtown “Golden Triangle” section of Pittsburgh, PA, to the Oakland neighborhoods located about two and one half miles east of the City and it…
This interesting photograph dating to November of 1947 of a rooftop parking lot or parking garage in an unknown location certainly contains some interesting period architectural elements and lighting fixtures. In addition, the image also shows the small number of new automobiles that were on the road two years after the end of World War…
The Spitz family established this used auto parts operation in 1939 and it has been in continuous operation ever since then. Spitz Auto Parts is located at 12570 Lincoln Highway in Irwin, PA, (Route 30) and has been serving travelers and local customers on the famous highway for eight decades at this site twenty-seven miles…
We are sorry to only be hitting on two out of eight cylinders after competing in last weekend’s VSCCA Mt Equinox Hill Climb, although this image from the Farm Security Agency at the Library of Congress Digital Collections that passed across our digital desk this morning is still of interest. The photo was taken in…
The left-hand side of today’s feature image dated November 10, 1937, contains a view of Horvitz Motor Sales which was located at 5555 Penn Ave. in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The right-hand side of the photo contains a Gulf Oil Company filling station on property owned by W. L. Mellon and to…
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