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| German racing driver Rudolf Caracciola attends to his Alfa Romeo Tipo B during the 1932 French Grand Prix held at the Reims-Gueux circuit on July 3, 1932. |
The field was composed of 16 entries, all Alfa Romeos and Bugattis. Only 3 of the Alfas were Tipo B and they swept the first three places. Rudolf came in third.
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| 1936 DeSoto Airflow |
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| 323.5 cubic inch straight-eight engine in a 1937 Desoto Airflow |
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| 1930 FORD MODEL AA EXPRESS TRUCK |
The AA usually received plainer interiors than their car counterparts.
Which make sense. Trucks are tools, tools used for some kind of work, and creature comforts weren't that important for the people who were paying for the trucks.
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| SS Tjitjalengka at Amoy Harbor in China - Robert G. Lloyd |
The 16,700 ton British hospital ship Tjitjalengka. Built for the Java-China-Japan-Line in 1939 and owned by a Dutch shipping company, the Tjitjalengka was requisitioned for Admiralty service on 8 July 1942 and was converted in Liverpool, England to accommodate 504 patients. After service in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans, she was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet. After the Japanese surrender, she carried Allied Prisoners of War (POWs) repatriated from Japan to Australia. On her final voyage, she carried invalids and Naval casualties from Colombo and Durban to Liverpool, England and was then returned to her owners.
Royal Navy Research Archive has a longer history of this ship.
The artist, Robert G. Lloyd has done numerous marine paintings.
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| Tjitjalengka, Indonesia |
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| Heinkel He111 H-6 |
The Heinkel He 111 is a German airliner and medium bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934. Through development, it was described as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Due to restrictions placed on Germany after the First World War prohibiting bombers, it was presented solely as a civil airliner, although from conception the design was intended to provide the nascent Luftwaffe with a heavy bomber.
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| Philippine Clipper Arrives Hong Kong October 23, 1936 |
The Martin M-130 was a quad-engined commercial flying boat designed and produced in 1935 by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways. Intended to fly transpacific flights, three airframes were built: the China Clipper, the Philippine Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper. A similar flying boat design called the Martin 156 and named Russian Clipper, was later built for the Soviet Union; it had a larger wing (giving it greater range) and twin vertical stabilizers.
Martin named them the Martin Ocean Transports, but to the public they were the China Clippers, a name that became a generic term for Pan Am's large flying boats - including, retroactively, the smaller Sikorsky S-42 (first flown in 1931) and larger Boeing 314 (first flown in 1938).
All three aircraft were lost while in service. Hawaii Clipper disappeared in 1938 on a flight over the Pacific, Philippine Clipper flew into a mountain in poor conditions in 1943, and finally in 1945 China Clipper broke up during landing at Trinidad and Tobago. In their time, they blazed trails as one of the first aircraft types to operate transpacific routes (some of the longest airline routes at the time) and also served as transports during World War II.
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| San Francisco to Manila |
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| Trans Pacific Air Mail Stamp |
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| Croydon Airport - Victor McLindon |
The beautiful the Handley Page H.P.42 and H.P.45 were four-engine biplane airliners designed and manufactured by British aviation company Handley Page, based in Radlett, Hertfordshire. It held the distinction of being the largest airliner in regular use in the world upon the type's introduction in 1931.
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| Refuelling Hanno at Samakh, Tiberias, Palestine, October 1931 |
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| Yakovlev UT-2 |
On July 11, 1935, the Yakovlev UT-2 took to the skies for the first time, marking a pivotal moment in Soviet aviation history. Designed as a modern trainer for the Soviet Air Force, the UT-2 replaced outdated biplanes and became the backbone of pilot instruction during World War II. Though challenging to fly, more than 7,000 were built, and today, just one remains airworthy—preserving the legacy of this essential war-era trainer.
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| DKW SB 500 left side |
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| DKW SB 500 right side |
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| 1935 Renault Celtaquatre by Ermell |
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| RMS Queen Elizabeth Engine Room |
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| The Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbor after the fire |
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| Technate of America |
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| Technocracy Rally, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California |
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| Benelli 250 DOHC |
1939 Benelli 250
Third pick is a little obscure, but I like it because it gathered up a bunch of ideas, made them work well and glorified them with success. It’s the Benelli 250, which put together an aluminum dohc top end for cooler operation, cam drive by gears and (eventually) an oil cooler. It brought distinction to its makers and to engineer Giuseppe Benelli through the 1930s and ‘40s. When, after World War II, engineer Alfredo Drusiani suggested to Mondial that a “real” four-stroke would whip all the yapping 125cc two-strokes of the late 1940s, he was thinking of this Benelli. Subsequently, Mondial was 125cc World Champion in 1949, ‘50 and ‘51. When MV needed to up their 125′s performance, they bought a Mondial, and Soichiro Honda took one back to Japan for study. That’s quite a chain of creative disturbance for a little old 25-horsepower Benelli from the early 1930s.
DOHC - Dual Over Head Camshafts
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