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Servus, San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives, PSA Born Digital Image is a masterpiece!

I believe this is the user interface for a pre-microprocessor material handling system.

Mr. Peterson may have been a Punch Press Operator A and a Foreman. The mustacioed guy is in many of these.

I see what looks like a General Motors Delco starter. See the two pipes going into the muffler? I think the engine may be a Detroit Diesel 8V71.

This plant in Mexicali, Mexico, opened in December 1970. Aircraft sheet metal fabrication and subassembly were produced according to Rohr News, December 1990.

This location may have produced harnesses and sheet metal parts for BART cars or those may have been produced at another location in Mexicali.

Guess: this is part of Rohr that archives all of the vital documents. If so, this goes with the microfilm series:

You could focus stack the image above and this one:

My initial guess: Munich plant. Post a comment if you know, Still researching...

If you look at the device on the copy table, and the box with the meter under the window, they both have a Recorder logo on them. This was the Kodak microfilm product line.

Another example on Flickr:

This may be an example of architectural prestressed concrete products made by San Diego Prestressed Concrete Company?

I think this is a signal mockup to tell the train operator if the switch they're approaching is aligned as the operator expects?

The 1954 RAC Tourist Trophy was a motor race for Sports Cars which took place on 11 September 1954 on the roads around Dundrod, (County Antrim, Northern Ireland).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_RAC_Tourist_Trophy

GoogleMapsSatellite3D - maps.app.goo.gl/W3KMZbu33Ruhgaqa6

11 September 1954 was a Saturday ...

Mike Grimes Thanks for helping us establish an exact date for this one. And beachcomber australia, for the day of the week.

Why were all those TTs (this one, Isle of Man, etc.) called Tourist Trophies?

The "Tourist Trophy" was so called because it was the British round of a global series of "trials" for road-going automobiles (Tourers). It was the "International Tourist Trophy" hosted in the parts of the United Kingdom where such trials could legally take place on public roads.

O Mac Thank you.

as a "L" learner driver 40 odd years ago I practised my corners here :-) scared the pants of my brother...took him along here in a rental car a few years ago as part of the wake for my mother.....still scared the pants of him...there is also a fabulous "tree tunnel" along the road, featured often in my Ireland albums... yes I was driving looking through the viewfinder of a SLR...

Foxglove Shocking behaviour altogether!

Building still there remodeled for a different business.

See 2025 Streetview

Exactly the time I was going to school at UW.

Found it! 915 Tower Road. Looking at Google street view, it was torn down sometime between Sept. 2017 and Aug. 2018

Notice the California DMV "manufacturer" license plates on the buses above. Transit buses are very difficult to make, I claim. When Rohr bought Flxible, the coach on the right was winning bids in U.S. transit system purchases. I saw more General Motors coaches but there were a lot of Flxibles. There are many Flxible bus photos on Flickr.

Probably still there!

www.instagram.com/p/DMzNFlru58f/ says that the lot is now an outdoor basketball court.

Station gone. Hat and Boots repainted moved to nearby park

See

See www.travelblog.org/north-america/united-states/north-dako...

eccentricroadside.blogspot.com/2013/04/no-can-do-late-gre...

Another view is at

And another

See the story of how the owner got it there at
www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/Came-Roost-Oreg...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus,_Arizona
"Santa Claus (also known as Santa Claus Acres) is an uninhabited desert place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. Originating in 1937, Santa Claus lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona, along U.S. Route 93 between mile markers 57 and 58, immediately north of Hermit Drive and just south of both Grasshopper Junction, Arizona, and the Junk Art of Chloride, a group of metal statues in Chloride, Arizona, that include a flamingo made out of a motorcycle gas tank Characterized in 1988 as "a little roadside place on the west shoulder of U.S. Route 93," Santa Claus receives traffic from motorists driving between Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, or Hoover Dam."

See discussion at www.facebook.com/groups/Prescott928/posts/9310236085722735/

See April 2021 Streetview

Sept 2022 Streetview
and
Dec 2025 Streetview

William G. White speaking and Irving J. Symons seated to his right in the image.

Bob Wilson at right. Burt Raynes at left. Check the hat.

TACV = Cabo Verde Airlines?

The curve suggests this may possibly be showing compounding interest. May be related to credit union or investment in company stock?

Please rotate this 90 degrees clockwise if possible.

My archives suggest Rohr's factory radio system had 5 VHF high band frequencies near 153 and 158 MHz. They were in Manufacturers Radio Service.

The mobile radio looks like a Motorola (model series) D23AAT Dispatcher with a die cast microphone. These were tube type radios with acorn or peanut tubes. The final power tube was a 2E24. They have helical antennas.

This image could be rotated 180 degrees.

www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017702142/
gives the address 2116 S. 10th Avenue, Milwaukee

Also at

Several sources claim this 1972 illustration is by James N. Devin. One source claims it was distributed by the John Birch Society. One source claims the illustration was a response to President Nixon's establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. I can't find any original catalog information at Library of Congress. Can you? I'll tag the file once the name and other data are confirmed by an official source.

www.flickr.com/people/191990756@N02/ yes, you’re right … presumably ‘inning’ is an old term for what we now call ‘reclaiming’ …

Station gone. Hat and Boots repainted moved to nearby park

Great historical collection!

d156156156 Thanks for the information! The article states that she flew from Whitehorse to Edmonton because women weren't allowed on the Alaska Highway (very strange, considering many women were involved with the construction of said highway) but doesn't state how she got from Edmonton to Winnipeg. There are other articles that mention support teams so perhaps she travelled in a support vehicle.

Some good information about the scouts and the crash here - www.greatwarforum.org/topic/213990-air-accident-dublin-19...

Here's the account of the presentation of the Silver Cross to the scouts which appeared in the Irish Times on 5th December 1919

A Lt. Goodnoh was placed 2nd in the 220yds at the Royal Air Force (Ireland) Sports held at Landsdowne road on Saturday 9th August 1919 (Dublin Daily Express - Monday 11 August 1919).

John Spooner beachcomber australia Thanks, both of you. Never mind a Silver Cross. They should have been given all the badges! And every Camp ever after must have been very dull affairs by comparison.

According to RAF records, Scott Tracey Goodnoh, born about 1894, service date 17th June 1917.

Further delving finds 6-year-old Scott T Goodnoh in the 1900 US census, in Hartford, Connecticut, and 17-year-old American Scott Goodnoh in Quebec in the Canadian 1911 census. Finally in Canadian death registers, Scott Goodnoh died aged 97 on 4/7/1991 in Montreal.

John Spooner Unusual names are yer only man. Goodnoh is a little easier than air mechanic Gray?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Indeed. Scott Tracey Goodnoh became a dentist. Here's his entry in the 1926 McGill University yearbook

John Spooner Excellent. Home cooking. And "Efficiency, man, efficiency".

You probably already knew there is a photo on the next page of the album of "Lieut: Goodnoh R.A.F., Air Craftsman Gray (Taken at Gormanston Aerodrime)." Goodnoh on the left.

See Image 20 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000535308

The engine is a MGWR Class D (Bogie)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGWR_Class_D-bogie

Was launched from Launch Complex 11. Because of a problem with the yaw gyro motor, which was not running, it broke up at the forward end of the LOX tank at T+43 seconds. To prevent a recurrence of this, Convair developed the Spin Motor Rotation Detection system, a collection of sensors designed to ensure proper gyroscope operation and which would prevent the launch if the motors were not running at the proper speed. It was not fully phased into Atlas vehicles until 1961 however