For Hemmings Motor News I’m writing up a little piece on the Veeder Hub-Odometer, those devices you see on heavy truck wheel hubs that measure mileage. It turned out that Veeder originally started making them for bicycles in 1895, introduced a car line in 1901 and still makes them today, 110 years later. That surely […]

From last week’s post on David Greenlees and his cohorts over at The Old Motor, you might get the impression they focus mostly on mid-century automotive photography, which is certainly not the case. Still, we can’t help but notice some of the more intriguing items from that period they’ve so far posted, including this one-off […]

The library at the University of Illinois at Chicago has just released a series of photographs of downtown Chicago street scenes taken by the Illinois Department of Transportation over the years. Being the IDOT, there are admittedly many photographs of empty intersections, but among them are plenty of the sort of photographs a lot of […]