Vintage Photo of the day

[Rural53]

Foden Steam Wagon

[Muddy]

[coolford]

Muddy---I have always liked your photo posts---Thanks.  Your latest one of the ice delivery truck brings back memories of the 1940's.  I grew up in a town across the bay from New York near the shore in  New Jersey.  In the summer especially we kids would follow the ice man hoping he would chip off a piece for us. In those days we had an ice box, not a refrigerator, and ice delivery was about every three days. Coolford

[jabberwoki]

I like the electrical tape warming up on the drop light.

[Muddy]

[Rural53]

Hay

FB_IMG_1709748298859 by Rural53NZ, on Flickr

[Muddy]

[goodfellow]

Interesting Photo! Not the car, (which BTW looks like a 1952 Ford Taunus 12M), but the license plate. After WWII when Germany was divided into four military administrative sectors (France, Britain, USA, and the Soviet Union), German automobile license plates were issued according to what sector you lived in. This one starts with A/B  -- American Sector/Bavaria.

This system was in place until the mid-1950's

[Muddy]

[AbiggerGarage]

Didn't realize James May was that old.

[Muddy]

November 1942. "Lititz, Pennsylvania. Showroom of the Pierson Motor Company owned by Al Pierson, who is showing his one second-hand car to a local farmer. Before the war there always were three brand new cars in his showroom. Now the chief business of garages is repairing."

[jabberwoki]

training for locating mines?

[Muddy]

training for locating mines?

Yep

"Their arms jutting through Moascar Stocks, a training device, British Fifth Army soldiers learning to handle mines and booby traps work on different types without seeing them. Instructors at left watch the soldiers handiwork, Jan. 20, 1944. (AP Photo)"

[Muddy]

[goodfellow]

Scotty's Garage advertises "Quick Charge". That was actually a popular and profitable service back in the day. Automotive lead acid battery charging systems that relied on DC generators were the norm until 1960 when the alternator  was introduced by Chrysler. Those generators were very inefficient in charging batteries and garages/service stations made a good profit on recharging your battery with a high amperage charger.

When I worked as an apprentice mechanic in the 1970s, a Sun charger was always setup for "Quick Charge" with the timer set at 30 minutes. IIRC the price was a couple of dollars.