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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Ferdinand Ellerman, astronomer, with a cast iron frying pan and a grease gun!
if I had the financial ability, I'd go to all the car museums, and junkyards, and show you so dang much interesting stuff... like tires from companies that went out of business in the 40s due to union labor impasse
The Pharis Tire and Rubber Company was founded by the Pharis family in 1906, and was located in the former Simpson Soap Factory at 325 West Main Street in Newark. The plant was responsible for producing bike and vehicle tires for large brand names such as Firestone and U.S. Royal, as well as its own Pharis label.
During World War II, Pharis Tire made inflatable rubber lift bags for disabled planes. With the supply of raw rubber diminished by Japanese occupation in the Pacific, the government built the company new facilities to enable them to produce tires made from reclaimed rubber.
in the midst of a strike, Pharis decided to quit the tire manufacturing business. The tire molds and the Pharis name were sold to the Mansfield Rubber Company.
Found in trees dead is too common a fate for so many cars that no one had the funds to repair, when the mid 1970s had so many muscle cars dirt cheap during the OPEC oil crisis
I wonder how many muscle cars only survived the drunk drivers, rust, etc etc because they were off the road for a engine or trans problem, and forgotten?
Barnfind of the day is the previously unknown 7th 1937 Chrysler Imperial 2-door convertible rumble seat that collectors and registries were unaware of
the car was stored away around 70 years ago.
After all of these years, the car never even left home. It was just minutes from the town center of where it was delivered in 1937.
And the most incredible thing of all--it runs and drives perfectly. It idles. Everything works. The gauge cluster works and illuminates. The temperature gauge climbs, the generator charges, every light down the the license plate light still works, the windows roll up. After 70 years.
quite a complex instrument panel design, and the strangest gas tank level indicator I've ever seen! Sizaire Freres 4RI
Sizaire Freres was a French company made by two brothers and producing cars from 1920-29
https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/1513525245895059
the craftsmanship and design of wood toy train sets impresses me, these are made by a maried couple, Lane and Emily in Washington!
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Made by a company named NW Alpine, of Washington
this set sells for 175 on Etsy, from the manufacturer
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
the P 47 Rae caught my attention for it's ASTONISHING billboard, and mission symbols, but then... I see it's pilot had the same name as my maternal grandfather, H Shook! (this post motivated by all the wonderful readers who boosted my spirits today and got me posting instead of glumly applying to jobs)
He had a childhood dream of flying, and on his 21st birthday, he entered flight training for the Army Air Corp. He graduated just days after Pearl Harbor and remained in the states as an instructor pilot, further sharpening his flying skills.
He was a career Air Force pilot and commander. As the D-Day invasion neared, he was offered a squadron commander position and promoted to major while still only 23 years of age.
He participated in three different combat theatres including leading a squadron of P-47's for 3 missions during the D-Day invasion and 3 more the following day.
He finished his USAF career leading an Air Division during the Vietnam War.
this is the best version of the billboard I can find
B 25 Sunday Punch, has quite to cool paintjob around the nose guns! And a cool story! (this post motivated by all the wonderful readers who boosted my spirits today and got me posting instead of glumly applying to jobs)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9529957@N06/5955799013
First used in 1915, the term “Sunday punch” is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as:
-A powerful or devastating blow, especially: a knockout punch
-Something capable of delivering a powerful or devastating blow to the opposition; saving his "Sunday punch" for the end of the campaign.
In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, work on the atomic bomb continued when Frances Smith Gates, editor of The Oak Ridge Journal, first used the phrase "Sunday Punch" on Sept. 14, 1944:
-A powerful or devastating blow, especially: a knockout punch
-Something capable of delivering a powerful or devastating blow to the opposition; saving his "Sunday punch" for the end of the campaign.
In Oak Ridge, Tennessee, work on the atomic bomb continued when Frances Smith Gates, editor of The Oak Ridge Journal, first used the phrase "Sunday Punch" on Sept. 14, 1944:
“Right Now, the most important thing you can remember in your daily work is this: our part of this war will not end with the defeat of Germany. As the District Engineer [Colonel Kenneth D. Nichols] pointed out in his message to the workers of this project last week, Japan is our final objective … We can defeat the Jap, decisively and more quickly, by remembering that every work-hour registered here is a Sunday punch aimed straight at Tojo’s button. Remember this when we defeat Germany. Stay on the job and finish the Japs!”
Wanting to literally deliver a Sunday punch to the Japanese, workers of the J.A. Jones Company decided to donate overtime pay from two Sundays in February 1945 toward purchasing a bomber.
The momentum grew to include all workers at the K-25 Area
J.A. Jones, Comstock-Bryant Electric Co.,
Midwest Piping, William A. Pope Co.,
Schulman Electric Poe Piping,
Lambert Brothers, Birmingham Slag Co.,
Reilly-Benton Co., and Happy Valley Enterprises.
The K-25 Bomber Committee and the companies and the workers donated $150,000 toward the purchase of a B-25 they named Sunday Punch.
On March 18, 1945, A Davis, chairman of the committee, formally presented the plane to Lt. Col. Sanford Chester of the Army Air Forces at the Knoxville Airport while a "huge crowd looked on."
https://www.oakridger.com/story/lifestyle/2023/08/31/sunday-punch-k-25-workers-go-above-the-line-of-duty/70671004007/
Immediately following the dedication ceremony, Sunday Punch was ready for war and sent to the China-Burma-India theatre as a member of the “Earthquakers” medium bomber unit.
Immediately following the dedication ceremony, Sunday Punch was ready for war and sent to the China-Burma-India theatre as a member of the “Earthquakers” medium bomber unit.
Upon landing in India, the plane was amazingly assigned to pilot Lt. Thomas Evans of Knoxville who was interviewed for the Oak Ridge Journal’s July 19, 1945 edition. “I was in my glory. I had my own airplane, a brand-new one – and bought by the home-town folk! I knew you folks would get a great kick out of it, too.”
Immediately following the dedication ceremony, Sunday Punch was ready for war and sent to the China-Burma-India theatre as a member of the “Earthquakers” medium bomber unit. Upon landing in India, the plane was amazingly assigned to pilot Lt. Thomas Evans of Knoxville who was interviewed for the Oak Ridge Journal’s July 19, 1945 edition. “I was in my glory. I had my own airplane, a brand-new one – and bought by the home-town folk! I knew you folks would get a great kick out of it, too.”
82nd BS, 12th BG, served in Italy
With the top turret pointed forward, there were 14 fifty cal guns in action, some call that a "Watering Can" it's about 200 rounds a second
There's a mention in P.I. Gunn's biography that a single strafing run on a Japanese barge, cut it in half.
Learning new stuff every day!
I wonder, how many major American factory built cars have side exhaust?
I see some Mustangs at Goodwood with side pipes. I know the Shelby GT 350s had them, and I don't consider the Shelby's a "major American factory" so, no Cobra on this list. Shelby American built more cars with rear exiting exhaust than they did with side pipes. https://www.hillbankusa.com/blog/The_Side_Pipe_Quandary
Trans Am Challengers and AAR Barracudas for sure.
AMX's had optional side pipes
Vipers,
Little Red Express
2012 & ’13 Boss 302
10th gen F150s, especially the SVT Lightnings
the Movie Memphis Belle has completed two years of restoration work and the engines were fired off for some test runs... (thank you George!)
During this initial ground run, three of the aircraft’s four engines (#1, #2, and #4) were run at different power settings but the aircraft’s right-inboard engine (#3) required more work before it could be test run.
In the leadup to the engine run other work was being done to get the Belle airworthy again after its time on loan to the National Warplane Museum at Geneseo, NY from replacing a section of the wing spars to adjusting tail control cables and restoring the floorboards in the waist section.
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