Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Argentina. Show all posts
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Look at the freaking size of these Argentine freight wagons! Grain exports were once one of the driving forces of the Argentine economy, right up until the great depression
The Great Depression, caused by the international financial crisis, led to a fall in the price of primary goods - between 1928 and 1932, the prices of Argentina's main exports fell by 60%, and the volume of Argentine exports decreased by almost 12%. Thus, faced with the global crisis, the Argentine agro-export model was losing its viability in the medium and long term.
At that time, Argentina was one of the ten most developed economies in the world, and its achievements in developing the country had turned Argentina into the richest and most developed country in Latin America.
The main producers of agricultural exports in Argentina were large landowners, latifundists, who controlled gigantic land masses - farms with an area of over 1 thousand hectares owned no less than 80% of the land, and the 500 largest latifundists owned 30 million hectares! In total, of the approximately 1 million people employed in agriculture, about 650 thousand people were hired workers.
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
1938 Ford Hunting Car was found in a remote part of Argentina, built on a truck chassis instead of the usual car chassis
Monday, October 09, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
there are always new fun things to learn of, and Matias just sent me the link to the 1967 Ford Falcon Angostado of Argentina
Matias commented:
Instead of chopping the roof in Argentina they just took a strip of body down the center. If you look the pics you will see a bar in the center of the windshield to hide the place where they cut the glass in half. Later cars had one piece windshields. The narrowed Falcons were an attempt to reduce the car's frontal section. They couldn't chop the roof like Moody did because the rule book said that the windshield had to keep the original car's angle and that the doors had to be the original height. Unfortunately for the people that wrote the rules they forgot to mention the roof in the rulebook... so the builders just took a section down the center of the car
Monday, August 28, 2023
Saturday, July 22, 2023
the Huayra came to Goodwood, from Argentina. I've never seen this car before, it was built in 1969, designed by Heriberto Pronello for the official Ford Sports-Prototype team.
In 2005, it was found in Córdoba, and Pronello himself supervised and collaborated with Zeziola in the restoration of the Huayra.
Monday, January 16, 2023
Thursday, February 10, 2022
In January 1962, Ford Argentina launched the first Falcon assembled in the local market. Its launch was a milestone in the history of motorsports and Argentine advertising. (thanks Gaucho Man!)
The company presented the car in Plaza Italia (Buenos Aires), building a giant structure to represent its slogan: “A piece of precision”.
It was a gigantic micrometer with a life-size Falcon inside it that rotated 360º
Later this model of car will become an icon of illegal repression due to the use made by the task forces of the Argentine dictatorship at the time of kidnapping and disappearing citizens.
Saturday, December 12, 2020
AgustÃn Aguaviva's v8 Ford rear engined midget was a revolutionary design, so small that in order to sit in the Midget's seat, he had to remove the steering wheel. An engineering feat because at this time, only the Union cars were designed as rear-engined race cars
Monday, June 01, 2020
"Fellowship of the Bellows" (for More Air Force) to collect "funds through fun" for assisting the (WW2) war effort, by paying for airplanes to fight the Germans, was conceived at in a bar, in Oct 1940 (Thank you Steve!)
The RAF was chosen as the beneficiary because at that time the 4 volunteers from Argentina had enrolled in the RAF; with losses already having been suffered, it was an emotive matter in the local community.
Within a short time they publicized the concept and called an open meeting at the English Club in Buenos Aires
The meeting appointed them as a committee of "Servants", and the "Fellowship of the Bellows" (for More Air Force) took off. The "Servants" consisted of the High Wind (what he says blows), who gathered round him: Secretaries – the Whirlwinds (always in a flap); Cashier – Receiver of Windfalls; Treasurer – Keeper of the Windbag; and a Lady Member – The Windlass (very easy on the air).
The concept spread and from the start employed British humour and advertising copy-writing skills, with plays on words. The pressing need at that time was for MORE AIR FORCE, so clearly BELLOWS were needed to increase the AIR FORCE; thousands of BELLOWS to RAISE THE WIND. The funds raised were sent to the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
how to make the salute for greeting "fellow bellows" (upward spiral motion of first finger of right hand depicting an eddy of wind);
a chart on the back page for monitoring one's own progress towards promotion.
The Fellows were encouraged to continue to contribute because after 1,000 planes had been certified by the Air Ministry and paid for, the Fellow was promoted from PUFF (Soplito) to GUST (Rafaga) and given another distinctive badge.
And so the quest for funds through fun went on:
with 2,500 planes down and paid for, the GUST became a GALE
(Vendaval); 5,000 planes created a HURRICANE (Huracán),
6,500 a TORNADO (Tornado) and
8,000 a TYPHOON (Tifón).
With each promotion, a further distinctive badge was issued. 10,000 planes downed and paid for entitled Fellows to obtain the honour: THE ORDER OF THE BELLOWS and were given their wings; wings were added to a special badge depicting a bellows. It was a further masterstroke that the incentive of promotion encouraged continuing monthly payments.
The first Bellows plane took to the air labelled BELLOW ARGENTINA No. 1 in March 1941 after only 4½ months. Plane after plane was added, and in July 1942, 263 Squadron took delivery of 20 Westland Whirlwind fighters and the squadron adopted the nickname "Fellowship of the Bellows".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_of_the_Bellows
http://www.rafharrowbeer.co.uk/bellows_of_brazil.htm
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795125,00.html
https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/names-on-a-plane/
On 30 December 1940 Time magazine published an article entitled "Whiffs, Puffs and Snuffs" about to the Fellowship.
Friday, April 24, 2020
1254 bikes, an art piece by Ai Weiwei, at PROA in La Boca
http://pensandolabronca.blogspot.com/2017/11/recorriendo-la-boca-barracas.html
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/culture/ai-weiwei-injects-activist-art-to-induce-social-change.phtml
https://fadmagazine.com/2018/01/25/234581/ai-weiwei-inoculation-exhibition-proa-argentina-gonzalo-viramonte-designboom-06/
Pensando La Bronco, a blog that is doing one amazing job of documenting what's left of the vast railroads of Argentina.
abandoned pivot bridge too
The writer of the blog points out that the corrupt greedy politicians bankrupted the country, and the moment no one paid the bills, the train system just stopped.
Also, politicians are always greedy, always corrupt, and never take public transportation, there fore - have zero interest in seeing it well run, or even run at all.
http://pensandolabronca.blogspot.com/2020/03/carga-transporte-economia.html
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