Vehicles

[Jeff Young]

South Park wrote

Were Essexs ever painted such a bright color ?  Looks
mighty bright for a 20's car !  

That’s mostly my LED lighting interacting with my camera.  It doesn’t look nearly as bright naked eye.

While I recognise that this isn’t a period picture, this was my prototype:



I thought the wood-coloured wheels were a bit too much, though, so I left that part out.  And in the end I had to lighten the dark blue I was using because for some reason the first couple of coats looked purple on the car.

Cheers,
Jeff.

[South Park]

  Clear coated bare wood wheels were a HIGH maintenance way to go
and not commonly done back in the day.  Almost all were painted wood.
It is the post-1950 old car following that thinks the bare wood is "cute"
and leaves it unpainted, or goes out of their way to build truck peds and
other parts of wood and purposely leave the wood base with some clear
coat.  As these hobby cars are not left out on the elements or driven daily
in rain and snow, they maintenance issue of old is lost on them and so now
we see a LOT of bare wood trimmed cars.  But historically speaking, bare
wood is, in the main, WRONG.

[Chris Walker]

Whitewalls for Keith,



And some more Leadville atmosphere.....


Library of Congress Photo https://www.loc.gov/search/500/


https://www.loc.gov/search/973/

[Chris Walker]

Finally been able to put a name to this mine...at last.

West Gold Mine on Chicago Creek.

[Chris Walker]

Thanks for the reminder Jim, been thinking I should post these, but in this thread.

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/36925


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/36024



Just for you, Sth Park.  

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll21/id/12780


http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15330coll22/id/35949


Obviously "Cutesy" was around a long time ago.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/33650/rec/3

[South Park]

  Paint truck is an Overland.  Acetylene headlights .... pre-1916

  Oil tanker is a 1918-1922 TT.  Aftermarket body.  Note the hard rubber rear tires.

  Telephone truck is a 1915 Model T with aftermarket body.  First year for electric headlights.

  Buerger Bros. truck is a custom-bodied Dodge Bros.  The high mounted "frogeye" headlights
were peculiar to several mfr's, including Chevrolet.  Dodge was a HUGE selling vehicle during
this period.  Note the winter hood blanket.  modern anti-freeze had not yet been invented.  A
1917 Model T stands behind the Dodge, easily dated by the one-year-only shaded headlight lenses.

  The Trunk & Bag truck is typical of the novelty/sales bodies that were not uncommon, even
back into horse-drawn days.  This is a black era Model T, but between the hood blanket and the
very custom body, it is tough for me to date it.  The proportions of the fenders and hood look a
lot like mine, and the "high hood" design occurred with the 1923 model year, so I am guessing
1923-25 ???

  Is it just me who laments the modern popularity for meaningless business and product names ?
Every one of these trucks bears the name of a company that leaves no question as to what they do.
Today, the names would read something like: "Lexar International", "Intrinium Group", "Xypexco/
Working today for a seamless tomorrow !"

  Great photos !

[Fritz 52]

Hey guys.

This entire thread gives me ideas. I would like to try some of this in 1:48. I had a few to work on but somehow in the move from Missouri to Alabama they got misplaced.  I had weathered them a bit and had painted the wheels a dull color gray. We picked them up at a truck stop along I44 between St. Clair Mo.  and Rolla Mo after a trip to the Museum of Transport in St. Louis county.
I had a 1940 Ford sedan and an early 50's gas station chevy pu. There was way too much 'chrome' on  them and the wheels were so shiny too. But they had 'baby moon'  hub caps so when weathered looked like stock caps.
Dollar General has a few 1:48 die cast cars but right now the older ones are out of stock.
Fred Cotterell
C&S Ohio Creek sub.

[Jim Courtney]

I was browsing through my Colorado book collection this afternoon and found this beauty:



Fort Lewis College, Center of Southwest Studies, in Buys, Christian J, Historic Telluride in Rare Photographs, page 207.


The caption dates the photo to July, 1915. This is presumably a utility repair truck of the Telluride Power Company, that provided electricity for the town and surrounding mines and mills.

Heavy power pole cross arms are stacked neatly on the sides of the truck bed, with ceramic insulators piled on top. The long wooden poles were evidently used to manipulate "hot" power wires safely out of the way, while changing out insulators.

Make of the vehicle uncertain, speculated to be a Dodge Brothers product. Note the chains on the tires -- handy in mud as well as snow??

[Robert McFarland]

Getting off the subject slightly but I wish there would be a source of  stage coaches and freight wagon kits in O scale.Way back a long time ago there was a plastic Abbott&Downing Concord kit but its  almost impossible to find on eBay any more.When it comes to freight wagons I'm looking  for stuff like in the photo of  a line of freight wagons going over Ute pass or the drawings of freight wagons in Wagons,Mules,and Men.

[Ken Martin]

No stage coach but check the freight wagon from GME
http://www.g-m-e.com/laserkit.html

Ken Martin

[South Park]

  The power co. truck photo has a few details wrong.  But it IS a power co. truck,
probably the line crew supervisor's rig.  The insulators are NOT "ceramic".  They
are porcelain.  Ceramic, as most people use the term, is a light and weak material
that would have poor mechanical strength for such an application.

  The poles on the side of the truck are "pike poles", used for erecting new poles
before the advent of cranes and still used in remote construction sites.

[brucet]

Here's one of the 1/48 Russian kits that may be of some interest.


Lots of small details such as etched engine fan, bumpers etc. Clutch, brake pedal etc. Even working suspension.

And one more.

[Rich Rands]

What are you looking for? Send me some photos, I'll take a look.
Rich Rands

https://www.berkshirevalleymodels.com/apps/webstore/

[Chris Walker]

A little late in the game......but then nothing is breathing on the various boards today.....

[Paul R.]

That one would look good in S. what was the maker and where was the motor, under the seat.? Paul R.

[South Park]

Looks to be a Reliable.  Yes, the engine was under the seat.

[Chris Walker]

Congested backroads...... and they have the steeringwheel where it should be

[Chris Walker]

Out for a Sunday drive, perhaps?  

[Chris Walker]

Not so much as reviving old dead threads,  more like breathing new life into some old favourites.

Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co.

DPL CHS.X-7373

[drgwcs]

Interesting this thread resurfaces right about now. This past week I had the neat experience of getting to go to two train shows in a week- Greensboro NC on Saturday and Hickory on the following Friday. The club room (they always have one off to the side) at Greensboro had a ton of vehicles and detail parts and other goodies. (pardon the two standard gauge items- I do that as well- with a bit of a time warp to 1945) Picked up two National Motor Company Packards, A con cor Mack, a Jordan Mack Lift truck, A Master Creations Stake Truck, and a Ford roadster from Campbell. (Plus a couple of HOn3 trucks and a DVD of the Millers C&S Ohio Creek Extension) Now I just need to get the others in my stash finished up.