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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

1949 Packard Golden Anniversary Super art


From a magazine ad of the time.
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Ghost


A 1915 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost in fact.
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Japanese C55 class with a passenger train, 1970


This was a superheated Pacific (4-6-2) type of which 62 examples were built between 1935 and 1937. More

More about the Orio station
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

tram in Lower Symonds Street, Auckland, circa 1910


See earlier posts, and our books.
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'of course I have a transpress nz book'


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Air France DC4 Skymaster poster, 1951


Advertising 3 trips between Paris and Zurich a week, 1 hr 40 minutes each way.
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International motorboat meeting poster, Italy, 1931


Obviously the French version of what would have read in Italian something like 'Incontro Internazionale di Canoe Automobili'.
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1930 Studebaker Roadster


Next to a 1933 Ford 30.
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with Air France on a trimotor to the Far East, 1938


Featuring a Dewoitine 338 aircraft as far as Vietnam with an arrow pointing to China.  At the time the Japanese were invading parts of China so it wasn't a prime tourist destination.
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tram and a 1936 Ford pick-up in Quito, Ecuador


Calle Picincha according to the photo caption.
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