1951 Kaiser DeLuxe 2-door Sedan

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1950 Pontiac Streamline Silver Streak Station Wagon

1930s AEC Mammoth Major Mk II eight-wheeler dump truck art

A Mke Jefferies creation available commercially as a print. "Hudsons Coal had quite a fleet of lorries in the 1930s among which was this seen here being loaded at a London dock-side.At this time AEC's reputation was a little tarnished because of problems with their indirect-injection 7.7 diesel engine which compared unfavourably with the Leyland and especially Gardner direct-injection diesels but later modifications gave AEC the edge."

1960 Ford F100 Pickup

Obviously in shwroom condition!

gasoline prices in Los Angeles hit $US 2 a liter

Thanks to the policies of Gavin Newsom, everything in California is expensive, but this is ridiculous!

Southern Railway (England) electric locomotive with the 'Golden Arrow'

Seen at London Victoria station in 1964. This is a British Railways Class 71 (Type HA) 750V DC third-rail electric locomotive. The green-liveried locomotives operated between London and Dover Marine, occasionally carrying the Golden Arrow headboard.

The class 71 Bo-Bo type were built in a run of 24 units between 1958 and 1960. One of them (71 001) was saved by the National Railway Museum in York.

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SNCF winter alpine train poster, 1972

"Let's take the train" showing a train pulled by a pair of class 67000 diesels, maybe on the line to Briancon.

traffic in Hamburg, Germany, 1970

Taken from the Fußgängerbrücke (pedestrian bridge) bei den Landungsbrücken next to the harbor. The tram line no longer looks to be there.