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The Seattle Times covered famous silent screen actor Wallace Reid’s visit to the city during the third week of July 1919. He is pictured above with an attractive Stutz Bearcat on the sidewalk in front of the newspaper’s building at 4th. Avenue and Olive Way. In an article in the paper covering his stay, he was referred…
William B. Fageol and his brother Frank R. Fageol started the Fageol Motors Company during 1916 in Oakland, California. The first vehicle was the amazing 1917 130 h.p. Fageol Supercar that was an unfortunate causality of World War I. Later on the Company focused on the impressive Fageol Safety Coach and a line of Fageol trucks all of which you…
This is the second in a series of interesting photos showing vehicles used for snow removal between the years of 1916 and 1956. After researching the subject it was found that keeping the streets and roads open was a major problem for towns, cities and states up until around the mid-1920s. At that point, heavy-duty…
* Updated * Thanks to Ariejan Bos and Donald Ellis: The photos of the first car were taken in Berlin, Germany; an article in the German magazine Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung covering the car above references the earlier Czerny body, but a body maker is not mentioned; Walfisch-BlitzBlank sold toothpaste, mouthwash and shampoo. The top car is advertising the Company’s…
This past November as the snowy onslaught of the winter of 2014-2015 began we posted a photo of a very similar bus stuck in the snow in upstate New York. This photo was taken in Washington State of another snow-bound bus on its way to Spokane in 1929. In the last post, Gene Herman identified…
While enjoying a nice old-fashioned New England snowfall yesterday, the thought came to mind about what might have been the first commercially available motorized piece of snow removal equipment. The earliest is likely to be one used for clearing railroad tracks and the oldest patent we could find for a Railroad Track Cleaner was dated as first…
In 1912 French coachbuilder, Jean-Henri Labourdette created an exciting new automobile body style when he built his first Skiff-Torpedo coachwork on a 20 h.p. Panhard & Levassor chassis that was comissioned by Chevalier René de Knyff. It was constructed with the same basic methods used for a wooden boat. Oak was selected for the framing,…
Streamliners have been covered extensively on The Old Motor in the past and the oldest enclosed version so far has been a 1914 Alfa Romeo Aerodinamica with coachwork by Carrozzeria Castagna. Thanks to Paul Jaray, an earlier one has been uncovered that was constructed by Karl Czerny & Co. in Vienna, Austria in 1913. The uncommon Ganz gefchoffen is covered in a 1913 issue of the…
This early 1920s photo courtesy of Fred Carlton shows two armed representatives of the Anti-Automobile Thief Association of America in a Stutz Touring Car in Dallas, Texas; it gets the message across that they meant business. If rifle did not, its newspaper advertising campaign would as it stated: If you have a hankering for a sentence…
The Gilmore Oil Company will be a familiar name to longtime readers as we have done a few posts containing images related to the Company and its products. This 1931 promotional photo taken in the Los Angeles area shows two vehicles: a tanker on a truck chassis built by the White Motor Company and an…
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