transpress nz: October 2024

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg (M.A.N.) ad, 1956

Depicting a VT 08-like "Eierkopf" DMU for the South American Viação Ferrea do Rio Grande do Sul railway company.

1937 Renault cabriolet and 1935 Caudron C.630 graphic promo art.

1937 Peugeot 302 Conduite-Intérieure Grand Luxe

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

1925 Renault 10CV

Presumably the airplane had a Renault engine.

'in my work breaks I like to enjoy a good real book'

early MG rally car art

Signed James Dugdale and dated 1980. That's the extent of the info. Available commercially as a print.

The MG marque was founded by Cecil Kimber in the 1920s, and M.G. Car Company Limited was the British sports car manufacturer existing between 1930 and 1972 that made the marque well known. Since 2007, the marque has been controlled by Chinese state-owned automaker SAIC Motor.

1998 Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV private jet

Info and several pics

1939 Lincoln Model K Sport Sedan

Coachwork by Willoughby.

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Bentley v. 'Train Bleu' race art, circa 1929

By celebrated artist Terence Cuneo, painted in 1970. Available commercially as a print.

The Blue Train's original incarnation was the Calais-Mediterranée Express, a French luxury night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera during the interwar period. It was colloquially referred to as Le Train Bleu in French (which became its formal name after World War II) and the Blue Train in English because of its dark-blue sleeping cars.

1967 Chevrolet Yenko Super Camaro SS

(Car Museum FB)

'SS Strathallan' leaving port art

Dated to circa 1939. This was one of about 2000 ships torpedoed by German U-Boats during WW2.

Gross Registered Tonnage: 23,772 tons

Length x Width: 664 feet x 82 feet
Builder and Year of Build: Vickers-Armstrongs of Barrow, 1938
First Class + Tourist Accommodation: 448 + 563 persons : Total 1,011 passengers
Sister-Vessel: S.S. Stratheden
Ultimate Fate Torpedoed by U-562 on 21-12-1942, sunk 22-12-1942.

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a British Railways Peak Sulzer class 45 with a passenger train on the Settle-Carlisle line

The appearance indicates it hadn't been cleaned for some time. In the background it looks like the Moorcock Tunnel.

A total 127 of the 1-Co-Co-1 type diesels were built over 1960-1962. They were withdrawn during the 1980s and 11 are preserved.

More (steamingnorth.com pic)

Nyugati palyaudvar (West Station), Budapest, Hungary, graphic art, 1927

This was the 50th anniversary year of the station, see earlier posts.

1977 Dodge Power Wagon

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Northern Pacific F7 A+B+B+A lash-up in 1967

As well as three cabooses and other freight cars and what look like crew cars. Portland, Oregon?

'we stopped buying clothes to buy great real books'

1950 Cisitalia 202 Stabilimenti Farina Coupe

Info and more pics. (supercars.net)

El Coche Motor in the high altitude desert of Bolivia

ENFE (La Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles del Estado) Bolivia railcar M 337 built by Ferrostaal on an Arica - La Paz run.

Chesapeake & Ohio 'Hudson' type locomotive No. 490

This is the sole survivor of the L-1 class 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotives. It was built by Alco's Richmond works in 1926 as an F-19 class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type to be used to pull the Chesapeake and Ohio's secondary passenger trains. It was eventually rebuilt in 1946 to become a streamlined 4-6-4 for the C&O's Chessie streamliner. After the Chessie was cancelled, No. 490 remained in secondary passenger service, until it was retired in 1953. It spent several years in storage in Huntington, West Virginia, until 1968, when it was donated to the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. It is on static display at the museum.

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