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Does this count...?

HisMastersVoice wrote:Does this count...?

Edisons Model A.JPG

Is that you in the picture?

Josephine Baker with her very fast & very expensive Delage d6-7 in 1935...

Curt A wrote:Josephine Baker with her very fast & very expensive Delage d6-7 in 1935...

You could go over a hundred miles an hour in that boat. How, I don't know.

epigramophone wrote:It is thought that Caruso never learned to drive, but this did not stop him clowning around for the camera. I think the car which he is pretending to start may be a Packard.

Yes, that is a Packard... mid-Teens. If it is a Twin-Six ( V-12 ), no wonder Enrico is straining...


( Funny - his stance at the front of the car is not unlike the famous press photo of him from Pagliacci: bending over at the waist and beating a large bass-drum... )

Nellie Melba with her Daimler. The chain drive indicates a pre-1910 model.

Melba is said to have been interested in cars and sometimes drove herself. She owned, amongst other makes, a Stanley Steamer which is rumoured to have survived into preservation.

Victrolaboy wrote:

HisMastersVoice wrote:Does this count...?

Edisons Model A.JPG

Is that you in the picture?

Yes, this was at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, MI last summer.

John McCormack with his Rolls-Royce Phantom II outside HMV's Abbey Road Studios, about 1931. To the left are Fred Gaisberg and Rex Palmer.

I don't know the name of the chauffeur, but he needs to do something about that bald front tyre......

Note how non-driving Tom had Mina & little Theodore at the controls !

Curt A wrote:Josephine Baker with her very fast & very expensive Delage d6-7 in 1935...

One of the rare photos of Ms. Baker fully clothed....without bananas.