Willyslancs Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Love period photos, thought this was a belter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 With the 'NEW' Pneumatic tyres! What date the picture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I take it the sign on the window refers to the price of petrol at 20 cents per gallon. Doug:cheesy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 (edited) Yeah, but a US gallon is smaller so not that cheap. :whistle: Looking at the pnumatic tyres, tractor tyres such as that didn't come in till about 1932, so the trucks must be getting on even then. Wonders of the internet. The 20 cent price for fuel comes in at 1930. Edited July 30, 2011 by Tony B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I take it the sign on the window refers to the price of petrol at 20 cents per gallon.Doug:cheesy: Could be aircon refills? My cloakroom ticket.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Peskett Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Reference the tyres. Goodyear were producing pneumatic tyres for trucks by 1917 and in April of that year ran a Packard the 720 miles on them as a publicity stunt from Akron to New England, U.S. It took 28 days and 28 tyres !. In the early 1980s a similar E series Packard was restored as such. Reconditioned F.W.Ds from Slough were being advertised with pneumatic tyres in the early 1920s. Richard Peskett. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Those look to be identical tyres! I keep forgetting the USA was far more advanced in terms of vehicles at that time. Didn't have the rail network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CornishMade Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Those look to be identical tyres! I keep forgetting the USA was far more advanced in terms of vehicles at that time. Didn't have the rail network.:-) I think I remember father saying the Americans used vehicles like the peerless (and others) with their solid tyres to drive around the streets carrying a form of magnet underneath to clean up objects that would damage pneumatic tyres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Peskett Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 You are quite right, somewhere I have a picture of a WW 1 truck in Chicago fitted with generator and electromagnet amidships underneath to pick up horseshoe nails. Richard Peskett. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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