2020 New Random Pics - Page 494

asphaltgambler · 06-15-2022, 02:03 PM

There was one other thing that Johnny Weissmuller was famous for ...............and it wasn't his knife...............

craigster59 · craigster59's Garage

asphaltgambler · 06:32 AM

The only thing that my Grandma and Ray Davies had in common................who knew?

NeedSpace · NeedSpace's Garage

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Originally Posted by Z-man

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://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.

To be clear, the mercedes was a 3 wheeled, so it was a tricycle not a quadracycle. I went on a ride in it in Mahwah, very cool. Loved the smell of the exhaust as i think it was kerocene. Also, in all fairness. While benz patented the car...there were several others before him. BTW, have we met? I live in bergen county? I miss MBUSA! I'll be at the June Jamboree this weekend.

One of them is this some 100 years before benz built by some French dude. Just because they had the lawyers, doesn't mean he was first...

Heel n Toe · 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by masraum

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.

I know, that's why I just used the bare minimum HTML quote markup without his name in it and said "people need to stop using exact same."

I thought about saying, "Glen, I know you don't write these captions," but figured it wasn't necessary.

Next time, though...

BTW, "exact same" is ridiculous.

Ridiculous, I tells ya!

aap1966 · aap1966's Garage

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

A farm family seem to be busy doing some watermelon pickling with the chickens perhaps scooping up the discarded seeds - Springfield, Illinois, c.1910.

Flattening hills to build Seattle (1909). Starting in 1897 and continuing through 1930, the hilly topography of central Seattle was radically altered by a series of regrades, in what might have been the largest such alteration of urban terrain at the time.

GH85Carrera · GH85Carrera's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by Z-man

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://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.

The caption is:

first automobile (Quadricycle) designed and built by Mr. Ford

I did not see it claiming to be the first car, just Mr. Fords first design. And the French always claim all inventions, like the airplane and the car and lots of other things.