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Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:30am 0 Comments 1 Favorite
During their visit to France in 1938, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth proceeded from Calais to Paris in Pullman car hauled by a streamline locomotive:
The loco chosen for the Royal train was the SNCF 231C78, the one and only C-class Super Pacific fitted with streamline shrouding. Initially designated Nord 3.1280, it belonged to the third batch of the 231C…
Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:30am 4 Comments 2 Favorites
September 27, 1929. The day when an an aircraft well ahead of its time made its maiden flight.
"The Fokker F-32 was truly the "Jumbo" of the 1930s era. " - wrote Ed Coates, a celebrated collector of aircraft images & data. -…
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 6:30am 0 Comments 1 Favorite
This small streamline sedan was built by Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG.
This German company was producing passenger cars (including the famous rear-engine Kommissbrot) as early as the 1920s but they struggled financially through that decade. In 1931, Hanomag had 25% of the small-car market in Germany,…
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:30pm 2 Comments 1 Favorite
Meet Oberleutnant Max (Maximilian Karl) Hesse.
Here he is, holding a dog, with Leutnant Rudolf Stanger. Hesse was not an ace but he had an illustrious war career, crash-landing in the enemy territory in 1914 and being the pilot of the first plane in history which corrected artillery fire through wireless messages (Jan. 12, 1915). Promoted to Hauptmann, he was…
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 4:30pm 0 Comments 4 Favorites
This shot was taken more than two decades ago:
The trainsets don't look outdated even today. But they were built before WWII. In the 1930s the Italian state railways, Ferrovie dello Stato, electrified the main line Milan-Bologna-Florence-Rome-Naples and needed a fast train to use on it and on other newly-electrified lines. The ETR 200 project was…
Thanks a lot for the encouragement, and for making me feel welcome!
As a side note, I don't usually rush in and bombard sites with spammy comments about Iron Sky, but the level of enthusiasm in the original post made me feel so good I just had to :)
Thanks again. Hope you'll like the movie :)
-j
Indeed! :)
-j
just feeling a little repetive by saying that this, all this is an absolutely fantastic webb site, and also wanted to ask if youve ever driven or owned a '70s citroen LM....Massarrattii engine and wishing you well, sir!
Thank you, this site is fantastic!
Thanks for the welcome lord_k and for making all this possible! I'm sure I'll be a frequent visitor and I'll try to contribute to the cause!
LK
My favorite brand is Ronson. Several of their designs have the similar lines to the Lowey features of the lococmotives you show frequently. I will send you some photos. I just saw the website for the first time today. I went back several issues and the train features are right in line with the look of many lighters of the 20's and 30's. I will contribute a some point after I get a feel for the site. I am pretty good with the computer but some of the techniques necessary add articles may take me a bit.............My father inlaw sent me the site 'cause he knows my love of cars and the time period. CTC
Thank you!.. :) I like it here, will look around a bit to get used to what's where...there's so much cool content that I'd like to check.. :)
I love the copy about old cars. Brings back memories from my Dutchess County (NY) rural childhood when my father had a model A pickup. He also bought a sedan from the FDR estate. A neighbor had an old garage and in it was a car with wooden wheels.
Thx for the welcome. This is a dangerous website. I'm going to be spending too much time on it.
Good to be here, thank you.
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