The theoretical advantage to gas turbines, besides their ability to swallow up a wide range of fuels, is their relative lightness and compactness compared to other internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) of the same output. Boeing decided to illustrate that advantage with this press photo we recently scrounged up, dated April 10, 1950, showing one […]

Many, if not all, automakers at one point dabbled in production of other consumer goods. Nash bought up Kelvinator, Studebaker bought STP (among many others in a diversification spree), and rather uniquely, Pierce-Arrow built travel trailers. This 1937 Pierce-Arrow Travel Lodge Model C for sale on Hemmings.com may have been updated over the years, but […]

The immediate post-war years brought a lot of unique automotive ideas to the forefront, and the major auto and truck manufacturers were far from immune to the trend, as we see from Thomas B. Garrett’s article in SIA #95, October 1986 on the woodie station wagon prototype that Diamond-T built in 1946 and that hasn’t […]