electric tram to Karori, Wellington, 1910s

In what is now Glenmore Street.  For more, see earlier posts and the book Wellington Transport Memories.

1933 Ford V8 40

'this book is so inspiring'

1931 Praga Sedan

Viking ship poster

Obviously promoting travel to Scandinavia from America, age uncertain but the reference to 'Steamship' and the absence of a reference to 'airline' suggests it goes back a way.

1920s Super-sport BNC

Not just a sport.

old Chinese first class saloon car

1977 Lincoln Continental

maximum speed limits in European countries

Given in km/h.  Germany has autobahns with no speed limits.  In the USA the maximum we've seen is 75 mph (120 km/h), Australia 130 km/h. In NZ the max is 100 km/h (good for police revenue raising).

the City of Los Angeles departs Chicago, 1947

A pair of E7's, the first Chicago and North Western, the second Union Pacific, pull the City of Los Angeles away from the North Western Terminal. The train was operated jointly by the Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific.

'Hello, depot? I don't think my bus will go anymore'

devilish Brescia Automobili, Italy

"Welcome to my pad."
"Count Dracula, I presume."

'I like reading a book that doesn't have batteries to recharge'

Great Western Railway bus service between Marlborough and Calne, England, 1904

Brünigbahn electric train and cows, Switzerland

On the 74 km metre-gauge line from Lucerne to Interlaken Ost.  Electric Deh 4/6 locomotives were built by SLM in 1941 for the electrification of the line at that time, in the standard 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC system used in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. This looks like a HGe 4/4 loco, built by SLM in 1992.

transport montage poster, 1976

Obviously British, for school use.

Le Mans, 1931, poster

across Australia by the trans-Australian railway poster

Despite the steam locomotive front suggestion, this may not be as old as it looks.

1973 Ford Capri advert

"If Casanova lived today, he would drive the new Ford Capri 73."  Hmm.... we think he would prefer a flashy and expensive Italian sports car to pick up the chicks.

working model of government bureaucracy

'Brainless officialdom' as one of our authors described it.  A useful guidebook is here

to the Isle of Wight by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

Age uncertain - 1900s?

to Algeria and Morocco by the Paris-Orléans

The airplane suggests a 1930s date.

Humber Tourer circa 1928

A Wills cigarette card.

1956 Rolls Royce

PLM poster for trains between St Petersburg, Russia, and Cannes, France, 1904

Via Warsaw and Vienna.

Lille car show poster, France, 1926

Chicago and North Western ten-wheeler N°1385

This was built in 1907 by ALCo, one of 325 of the R-1 Class that the C&NW acquired. Withdrawn in 1956, it was acquired by what is now the Mid-Continent Railway Museum in Wisconsin.  It hasn't been used since 1998 pending a major overhaul.  More info and pics here.

vessels in Queen Charlotte Sound, circa 1910

See the book Strait Crossing: the ferries of Cook Strait through time.

iron horse and a camel in the Flinders Range, South Australia, 1887

With the camel and its rider being smoked...

1955 De Soto

The crazy, beautiful and idiosyncratic bookstores of Los Angeles

The Last Bookstore

Slide show here

1979 Lincoln Continental

and electrifying cycles!

Wonder Cycles will let you do tightrope stunts on power wires, it seems.

Psycho Cycles, 1890s

Cycles for psychos or by psychos? Some info and pics of an actual one here

the marina at Santa Cruz, California

traffic in Athens, Greece, 1950s

It looks like an early 1950s Studebaker on the far left.

a Wehrmacht soldier browses a Paris bookstall, WW2

At a Paris bookstall, a German soldier browses books on sale during the German occupation. The Nazis encouraged cultural activities by Parisians and in 1943 the Propaganda-Staffel reported that more French authors and titles had been published that year than in 1940. Newsstands sold a daily paper and magazines in German.  See earlier posts.

'Peugeot at Deauville'

Provenance unknown. It looks like an early 1980s model.

'is that a transpress nz book down there?'

the Guinness World Record holder of the world's longest and heaviest train, Western Australia

Set in 2001, no claims for that having been surpassed seem to exist. The heading in the previous video in China is a miscalculation.

20,400 ton electric coal train in China

1965 Chrysler Imperial

marine things at South Shields, England, 1930s

Go by the LNER to this seaside town on the south bank on the mouth of the Tyne in the north of England.  There is a North Shields on the north bank.


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1961 MG Midget

The first model year, produced to 1980. 'Midget' would somehow have been an appropriate name for all MG cars, see earlier post.

1955 Pontiac 2-door

Fuller's car ferry at Opua, 1970s

In the Bay of Islands. See earlier posts.

1951 Opel Kapitäns on the test track

Germany, precise location not stated.

'I need a guy to grasp my rear'

1963 Ford Consul Corsair

"A new car, I wonder how rich he is."
I don't think it's worth that much." 

From English Ford, the first model year.  The Consul bit was dropped from the name in 1965 and the model itself in 1970.

1929 Hudson