between the age of horse drawn stagecoaches and the age of brass and horseless carriages

1899 Hautier 1911 Aberdonia Park Royal Landau

Above 1926 Hispano Suiza

1913 Thames, body by Thrupp Mabery

1909 Babcock electric brougham

and just for fun, and the wonder of it, I add the following

The George Barris Revere and the Raiders coach

between the age of horse drawn stagecoaches and the age of brass and horseless carriages

1899 Hautier 1911 Aberdonia Park Royal Landau

Above 1926 Hispano Suiza

1913 Thames, body by Thrupp Mabery

1909 Babcock electric brougham

and just for fun, and the wonder of it, I add the following

The George Barris Revere and the Raiders coach

You think you've been in a traffic jam? Not as bad as this 1897 rush hour in Philly... no AC and surrounded by horses and smelly people w/o deoderant

Found on the HAMB

You think you've been in a traffic jam? Not as bad as this 1897 rush hour in Philly... no AC and surrounded by horses and smelly people w/o deoderant

Found on the HAMB

bridging the eras of horse drawn carriages and the first engine driven vehicles

Above is an electric coach built for the Queen Mary of Spain in 1896

from the Thrupp and Maberly coachbuilders in 1913 on a chassis from Thames Iron Works

Found on http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2011/february/thruppmaberly.html

bridging the eras of horse drawn carriages and the first engine driven vehicles

Above is an electric coach built for the Queen Mary of Spain in 1896

from the Thrupp and Maberly coachbuilders in 1913 on a chassis from Thames Iron Works

Found on http://svammelsurium.blogg.se/2011/february/thruppmaberly.html

Logging trucks, trains, and look at the size of those logs!

Above via http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/

Driving the model T cars onto the tree trunk is wild, but a team of horses? Did they think about how they were going to get those horses to back up the whole way off that tree trunk?

that train on top of the bridge is cool... but what the freak! How long did it take them to make that bridge? And they had to have it pretty level for that train, believe it.

from http://www.barnorama.com/big-trees/

Cool old police vehicles and motorcycles

Above, 1912 Detroit

from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=738

Italy's National Automobile Museum in Turin (or Torino I'm not sure, I can't read Italian)

the wood buck for an Alfa Romeo Guiletta Sprint

Fiat Turbina

the winner of the Paris to Peking race

If you are ever near Torino, it looks like a must see to me! http://www.museoauto.it/home/

Images from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/