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Today’s feature image contains a traveling machinist from Motor Parts and Equipment Inc., with a late-1930s Chevrolet panel truck outfitted with engine reconditioning equipment. This promotional photo was taken on November 3, 1948, at Jim Harmon’s Mobil service station located in Tacoma, Washington. In the 1930s to early-1960s a number of larger automotive machine shops…
We return to the Ford Flathead V-8 Engine Rebuilder photos today to finish up this series with Part IV and take a look at two machines used for testing rebuilt carburetors and engines at Titus Manufacturing Company, located in Tacoma, Washington. In Part I the lead image contains a Ford tractor and trailer Titus used for delivering engines in Washington and…
Today’s feature is Part II of a photo essay covering the Titus Manufacturing Company, an authorized Ford engine rebuilder located in Tacoma, Washington. The business opened during World War II to rebuild Ford engines and keep cars, trucks, and other vehicles equipped with them used for military or other necessary needs in operation. At that time three workers rebuilt…
The last feature on the “Georgia Peach” was in early January of this year, so an update on the restoration is in order. The rebuild of the engine transmission, and overdrive began in March the engine, transmission, and overdrive were removed and disassembled for rebuilding, but that is getting a bit ahead of today’s story. The…
The New Year has arrived which makes for the perfect time to clean off the desk so to speak and bring you up to speed with what has been accomplished on the “Georgia Peach” Volvo 122s project over the last six months. Due to the 1914 Simplex project taking much longer than expected, not as…
Just a short post here today due to the fact that the last two days have been very busy finishing up the Simplex project chassis before the body is placed back on to it today. After test running the 600-c.i.d. T-head engine, it was then used to check the operation of the clutch, transmission, differential,…
The Jam Handy series of films produced for Chevrolet in the thirties have proven popular with readers, so today, the subject being covered is automobile brakes. The 1936 film “Hydraulics” provides an excellent demonstration showing how a system operates, and how it is applied to an automobile. The second film, “Facts on Friction” produced in…
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