Showing posts with label street sweepers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street sweepers. Show all posts
Friday, January 09, 2026

I've posted a lot of early street sweepers, but never one with this many chains. Made by Elgin

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https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/355/
Friday, December 26, 2025

tough looking street sweepers!

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The Austin-Western Road Machinery Co.’s 1938 “motor pick-up sweepers” were the height of sweeping technology at the time. They boasted large...
Friday, May 16, 2025

the London to Brighton Historic Commercial Vehicle Run

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  a Lacre street sweeper!  A 1920 3 wheeler
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Thursday, October 05, 2023

Finally, some real hero news from New York, and no, it sure as f**k was not anything to do with NYPD, it was UPS and Spider-Man! Street sweeper rolled backwards down a street smashed cars, UPS driver saw it happening and drove into the truck to stop it. Spider-Man quick jumped in to direct traffic

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https://www.tiktok.com/@whatisnewyorkofficial/video/7286151608151444767 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx_BKVYr2ZM/
Saturday, December 03, 2022

best use of googly eyes, a street cleaning leaf vacuum machine

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

some kind of interesting early street sweeper

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/2216000102000133/posts/3335346416732157
Saturday, May 28, 2022

1956 street sweeper

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https://photobygibson.com/archive/collections/archive/City-of-Hudson-1955---1959/
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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

I had forgotten that Alex Tremulis designed a street sweeper... huh! I had forgotten until Dennis mentioned it, and I went to look it up. Thanks Dennis!

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https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2011/12/07/mobile-alabama-1940s The one I posted yesterday didn't have the Austin Western lettering on ...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

In December 1943, Richmond Mayor Gordon Ambler broke in the city’s new street sweeper, which had been on order for months.

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Wartime restrictions on manufacturing slowed production and delivery of the motorized sweeper, which city officials said was needed in light...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

LA begins using nation's first hybrid-electric street sweepers, and nicknamed them Angus and Malcolm

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The plug-in hybrid Broom Bears, as they’re called, are the first in the nation to run on compressed natural gas and battery-electric power. ...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2021

interesting small street sweeper in Philly in the mid 50s

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 and Happy Belated birthday to Joe Sherlock! It was Aug 5th, last Thursday.  http://www.joesherlock.com/Philly13.html#Street_Sweeper
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Thursday, October 15, 2020

I love cool old photos like this, with unusual vehicles (street sweeper) next to a cool airplane, with a delivery van in back, and then something interesting and with wheels, like the apu near the front tire

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https://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5156036-Vintage-photos-Awesome!/page285 Coincidentally, it's the same type of street sweeper ...
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Sunday, September 13, 2020

brilliant advertising method. It's mobile and will be seen by a lot of various people, it's similarly shaped, and does the same function as the product it's advertising

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Guerrilla marketing is quite different from traditional marketing efforts. It’s defined as: an advertisement strategy concept designed...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Honorary mayor of Beverly Hills in 1926, Will Rogers

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Honorary Mayor Will Rogers demonstrates the city's brand new Elgin Street Sweeper in front of Beverly Hills’ original City Hall at ...
Friday, May 18, 2018

street cleaner at work in 1910 appears to be at least a two man operation

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https://onceuponatown.tumblr.com/post/76989870123/new-york-auto-street-cleaner-at-work-c1910
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The Gaz-MM wheeled Pu-7 street cleaning vehicles during Moscow streets cleanup, 1938.

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looks very Buck Rogers or Metropolis from the back... https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2017/02/05/napi_erdekes_184_eszbonto_...
Friday, September 22, 2017

street sweeper, 1938 Vienna

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http://frenchcurious.tumblr.com/post/126512332733/v%C3%A9hicule-de-nettoyage-vienne-1938-atomic-samba
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

Street sweepers in LA, 1957

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https://calisphere.org/item/0caa98b6a7c38397adad6094a57c28ee/
Saturday, October 15, 2016

a restored Renault street sweeper

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http://www.lesrendezvousdelareine.com/2016/09/camion-poubelle-benne-a-ordure-menagere.html
Friday, June 17, 2016

interesting grin on this street sweeper truck

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