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The Puyallup Motor Company was located at 202 Pioneer Avenue East and Second Street in Puyallup, Washington. The City is located ten miles southeast of Tacoma, the home of a number of automotive business’ we have covered recently. According to the book “Puyallup a Pioneer Paradise,” the Motor Company celebrated its grand opening in October of 1946….
Newton Corner is one of several villages located around the suburban City of Newton, Massachusetts. The community is sited about seven miles west of the City of Boston, south of the City of Watertown, and the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). Today’s feature image dated is March 7, 1946 by the source, and contains the Pearl Court…
The photo containing 1955 Ford Thunder Birds parked in a shipping holding area near the Ford River Rouge Plant in last Friday’s Kodachrome Car Photos Series garnered quite a bit of attention. Over the weekend, contributor Benjamin Ames sent in today’s appealing lead image of a child-size 1955 or ’56 T-Bird go-kart. In addition the photo contains…
Today’s feature image taken for the “Detroit News” is dated May 21, 1956, and contains a shutdown of one-half of the Edsel Ford Expressway near the Trumbull exit. Two cars have blocked off the highway behind a tie-up and the line of traffic is waiting behind a motorcycle police officer on a Harley-Davidson V-twin. The first section…
Number One-Hundred and Sixty-One of the Kodachrome Car Photo Series begins this week with an image of a holding area near a Ford Motor Company assembly plant. Note the plastic covers on the Thunderbird’s not equipped with hardtops to keep them clean until reaching the dealer. Can anyone identify the location? As is the usual practice in…
Coverage of this unique postwar Kenworth W-1 “Deck and a Half” Bus began here back in 2014 after finding the lead photo courtesy of pauldorpat of this Washington Motor Coach System unit. The 2015 Update with more information is included below along with today’s new update. 2015 Update: “As many as 25 of these postwar W-1 Kenworth buses were constructed…
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…
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