Thursday, January 01, 2026

I think this is the first time I've seen one of these towing dollys mounted on the back of the towing vehicle of some service station

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/583/
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  1. Marc B8:13 PM

    The truck on the right says "Auto repairing from A to Y". I guess there was a car that started with the letter Y, but no Z.

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    1. Jesse9:28 PM

      you bring up a very good point. The Zil is a Russian, and the Zust was in the 1908 Round the World race... but a car that starts with Y? Yugos and Yenkos wouldn't be invented for decades to come.
      But there was the Yale, brass era. and the forklift company Yale that in 1920 introduced the forerunner of it's forklift and warehouse material handling equipment, a battery-powered forklift truck. Yale was a division of the lock company

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    2. Jesse9:35 PM

      https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:1900s_cars&pagefrom=Peugeot+Type+28#mw-pages in the brass era, there wasn't an X Y or Z according to the limited info on Wikpedia.

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  2. Marc B6:00 PM

    Wikipedia has a list of defunct US car manufacturers. It includes Yale (one in Saginaw, MI and another in Toledo, OH) and Yellow (1915-1930), and Zehr (1912-1915), Zent (1900-1902, 1904-1906), Zentmobile (1903), Zimmerman (1908-1915) and Zip (1913-1914).

    None of the Z names have a link for further information. They probably never sold many cars.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_manufacturers_of_the_United_States

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    1. Jesse9:45 PM

      thanks! I didn't look it up the right way to get the right list.
      I looked to see if I had ever posted a Zent or Zehr or Zimmmerman, but nope

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