tyres

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Truck load of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon (LOC)

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  • materfrater said:
    I wonder about the accuracy of the 1940's tag on this photo. That would seem to be too massive a load for a truck of that vintage.
  • Tobias said:
    This reminds me of Twin Peaks!
  • borkworld said:
    The White Truck Company was producing trucks suited for hauling these sorts of loads well before 1942. They had vacuum assisted hydraulic brakes. My father has a few terror stories dealing with driving these, the advent of air brakes gave you better reliability as a hydraulic fluid leak could quickly leave you in a world of hurt. They started manufacuring trucks in the 1920's.
  • greekpunk said:
    nice photo!
  • josegd86 said:
    great photo!

Women changing a tyre on a truck during World War II 1939

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    July 1940 in Brisbane alone there were six different organisations providing women with war-related training, the largest of which was the Queensland-based Women's National Emergency Legion. The federal government and military did not initially support women being trained to serve in the armed forces, however, and these organisations were not taken seriously by the general public. Many of these women were trained to undertake skilled work in traditionally male occupations in order to free servicemen for operational service. Women were also encouraged to work in industry and volunteer for air raid precautions duties or clubs for Australian and Allied servicemen. The female branches of the military were disbanded after the war. Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Australian_women_during_World_War_II

O'Neill's Bicycles

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  • derangedlemur said:
    No brake cables - they're all rod-actuated.
  • O Mac said:
    From a Google Book source..."Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure: Ireland As It Really Was" "John O Neill's bicycle factory in Dublin was started in 1894 originally assembling the bicycles but not manufacturing all the parts ( Weekly Irish Times April 5th 1913)" I don't have access to the newpaper archives to look that up!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    O Mac Thank you! I'm off to check now...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    John O'Neill in Wolseley Street, 1901: census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Merchants_Qu... Occupation: Cycle Factor From the looks of the OS 25", he did not live at the factory.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    John O'Neill was from Carlow. In the 1901 census, in Carlow, I see: ONeill James Accomodation Road Carlow 17 M Cycle Fitter ONeill Edward Accomodation Road Carlow 15 M Cycle Fitter census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?census_year...