Mercury Woodie Station Wagon Car Images, 1950

Although Ford Motor Company’s new 1949 station wagons provided both fashion and utility, competitors were hard at work on new features of their own. The all-steel Plymouth Suburban, while only a six-seater, had a folding rear seat that converted in just seconds to a flat load area. General Motors had embraced the all metal idiom but hedged their bets; GM wagons were available in metal with Di-Noc decoration, or real wood, albeit more an accent than real structure.
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Killinger Freund art deco bike

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Porsche 356A Convertible,1959

1958 Porsche 356A Speedster

1952 Porsche 356 Glazer Cabriolet

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Ferrari Factory Transporter by Fiat, 1959

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Saidpur Rail Station, Bangladesh

Syedpur is best known for its railway workshop. In 1870, the Assam-Bengal railway set up its largest workshop in Syedpur and many Biharis or Urdu-speakers came to work there. The city has many schools and colleges both for boys and girls. Before 1971, more than two-thirds of the population was Urdu-speaking.

During war of 1971 and after, much of Syedpur was destroyed. The railway workshop which once employed more than 12,000 workers now has about 2,500 employees and is on the verge of extinction. Syedpur is the only place where some Urdu is still taught in certain schools but its wealthier Bihari population have left for Pakistan.

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Found a site with loaded of Hawaiian charter buses photo, I think you must liked it.

Here link of founded site.
http://norcalbusfans.jalbum.net/NorCal%20Bus%20Fans%20Photo%20Archives/Hawaii/index.html

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On the road NewYork to Paris 1908

It is time for me to update the heading "Dieselpunk", all the more so now - very significant, although non-round date in the history of motoring. July 30, 1908 finished the winner of the first round the world rally, "New-York - Paris". American driver George Schuster became the first person to drive the vehicle through all of North America and the entire Eurasian continent. Behind the wheel he held in the general account 26 days, not counting the time to sleep, as well as - crossing time on the boat Pacific Ocean with stops in Alaska. However, four days before Schuster in Paris finished the German racer Hans Koeppen, but the victory was not given, as it was found that part of the route he has done on the railway platform. 
In total, the race involved six crews - three French, one American, one German and one Italian. All three Frenchman due to breakdowns out of the race, as the Italian somehow reached Paris towards the end of September, when a race has already started to forget.

Rally Results symbolized the loss of the status of France's leading automobile nation in the world and its transition to the United States. American car, "Thomas Flyer" company "Thomas Motors" showed the highest of all the participants of the speed and reliability. However, the company then lasted only 10 years, went bankrupt and is now about it, few people remember in 1918. And it's not just about her. None of the companies that submitted to the competition their best products, has not lived even before the mid-twentieth century.   
To this we can add that the rally in 1908 inspired Americans Blake Edwards and Arthur Ross to write the script blockbuster comedy "The Great Race", which is, I think, many watched as a child. 


The future winner of the round the world rally, "Thomas Flyer" before the start at Times Square in New York on 29 February 1908 leap. On the wings of the machine stacked boards to place under the wheel while driving on the viscous ground and furnaces. 


The line of the races on the launch pad. In the foreground of the French "De Dion-Bouton." 


German "Protos". Despite the fact that for a trip by train its driver was fined for 15 days, he is still ranked second as the third bidder behind the leaders for nearly two months. 


Another Frenchman, a long-forgotten brand "Sizer-Nodin." 


The third French participant - the company car "motor-block". The photo was taken in Detroit after passing the first stage of the competition. 


Shortly after the start of the race participants found the snow. 


The Italian "Brixen Zyust" on snow-covered road somewhere in the United States the center. 


It was planned that part of the route will pass through Alaska, and then, after crossing through the Bering Strait - Chukotka and Yakutia. "Thomas Flyer" first to reach the Pacific Ocean, had to ship to Alaska, but on the spot it was found out that the road ahead is not at all the planned route and absolutely impassable for cars. Soon the car again loaded on a ship and sent to Japan, and then - in Manchuria. But before that happened, it had to ride local avtolyubitelnitsy. 


The most severe and difficult stage of the race was riding on the Russian off-road, which did not survive all the French participants.The picture shows the American crew and Russian military help to get out of the mud traps German "Protos". Looking at this photo, you can understand why the most popular men's shoes in our country until recent times were high leather boots. 


"Thomas Flyer" somewhere near Omsk. According to the memoirs of George Schuster, on some days traveled to Russia distances are measured not in kilometers and meters. 




However, the car broke down, finished the race has been preserved in the form in which he reached the finish line. 


But the "Protos" is not preserved in German car museum is its layout. Also, did not survive and the other participants of the race.

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Steam Powered Rail 1804

212 years ago on 21 February 1804 was an outstanding event, which marked the beginning of an era of steampunk. In South Wales, for the first time set off the first train to steam-powered. A small train of five trolleys loaded with ten tons of coal, powered by a steam engine constructed by Richard Trevithick "Penydarren" (Penydarren) - the world's first locomotive, suitable for practical use.Previously, such compositions hauled horses. Although locomotive Trevithick demonstrated its efficiency, its design was very imperfect and in many respects - not rational. Specifically, the furnace was located very uncomfortable and coal it could only load in the parking lot. In addition, for some reason, Trevithick put enormous flywheel and used a cumbersome, complicated and unnecessary, in principle, a gear transmission, due to which it resembled a locomotive rolling on the rails clockwork. Transmission "eat" a significant portion of the power single-cylinder steam engine and the rattle at work.



"Penydarren" operated for long. The angled L-shaped rails along which he was driving, were not designed for its weight, so soon one of the corners underneath the locomotive overturned and burst. Restore it did not. The owner of the railroad back to the horse-drawn. The car, ahead of his time, was sent to be scrapped, and Trevithick took up designing a better engine, built in 1808 and received a funny name "Catch Me If You Can" (Catch Me Who funding of CA). But that's another story. 
On the intro - the first section of the engine and a portrait of its creator. 



Drawing locomotive "Penydarren." 



Modern drawing "Penydarren". The trolleys are depicted people, but the locomotive was used for the transport of coal between the towns and Penydarren Aberkenon by rail road length of 16 kilometers. 



Another semi-fantastic painting of a steam locomotive Trevithick met at the two-level interchange with a much later locomotive.Actually encounter they could not, because the locomotives, like traveling across the bridge, there were only 30 years after the "Penydarren". 

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Farm machinery samples coming to auction

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