Saturday, July 25, 2015

selling 1964 Cobras in high school year book ads.... this has to be the only time you've ever seen these



It's blowing my mind that http://annualmobiles.blogspot.com/ has hit on the unique source of car dealership photos no one else even suspected existed

firemen pulling hand pumper at 1910 parade in New Rochelle, New York


http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A176605

In the comments Racecar80 realized the mistake I made in my haste to post a lot last night, this is a hand pumper, the bars above the machine fold down and were pushed by hand, and this type of machine was in use in communities that couldn't afford the upgrade to a steam pump