Originally Posted by Z-man (Post 11718372)

Cool picture, but you are incorrect in one aspect -- that was not the first automobile. Two years prior, in 1885, Karl Benz, one of the co-founders of Mercedes-Benz, built the Patent Motorwagen.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...r.1_Benz_2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen#:~:text=The%20Benz%20Patent%2DMotorwage n%20(%22,patented%20and%20unveiled%20in%201886.

When working for MBUSA, there was a replica of the Motorwagen in my building, and I even saw one running around our campus from time to time.

Ford did not invest the first automobile. Benz did. :)

Originally Posted by masraum (Post 11717087)

Glenn isn't writing the blurbs for the pics that he posts. He finds the pics online with the blurbs. Then he posts the pics with the exact same blurb here. :D

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11715747)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1655062301.jpg
3 June 1941
Maori troops line up on the quayside at Alexandria in Egypt following their evacuation from Crete, 3 June, 1941. Between 28 May and 1 June 1941, 18,000 Australian, New Zealand and British troops were rescued by the Royal Navy following a week of bitter fighting against German Fallschirmjäger.
The 28th (Māori) Battalion, more commonly known as the Māori Battalion, was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Army that served during the Second World War. It was formed following pressure on the Labour government by some Māori Members of Parliament (MPs) and Māori organisations throughout the country which wanted a full Māori unit to be raised for service overseas. The Māori Battalion followed in the footsteps of the Māori Pioneer Battalion that served during the First World War with success, and was wanted by Māori to raise their profile, and to serve alongside their Pākehā compatriots as subjects of the British Empire. It also gave a generation of people with a well-noted military ancestry a chance to test their modern warrior skills. Raised in 1940 as part of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), the 28th (Māori) Battalion was attached to the 2nd New Zealand Division as an extra battalion that was moved between the division's three infantry brigades. The battalion fought during the Greek, North African and Italian campaigns during which it earned a formidable reputation as a fighting force which has subsequently been acknowledged by both Allied and German commanders. It was also the most decorated New Zealand battalion during the war. Following the end of hostilities, the battalion contributed a contingent of personnel to serve in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, before being disbanded in January 1946.
Photograph taken by Lieutenant L.B. Davis.

Originally Posted by Z-man (Post 11718372)

Cool picture, but you are incorrect in one aspect -- that was not the first automobile. Two years prior, in 1885, Karl Benz, one of the co-founders of Mercedes-Benz, built the Patent Motorwagen.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...r.1_Benz_2.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen#:~:text=The%20Benz%20Patent%2DMotorwage n%20(%22,patented%20and%20unveiled%20in%201886.

When working for MBUSA, there was a replica of the Motorwagen in my building, and I even saw one running around our campus from time to time.

Ford did not invest the first automobile. Benz did. :)

Originally Posted by aap1966 (Post 11718750)