Photos, videos and docs of Don Barrett (aka DBs travels), with the keywords: "museum"

South Bend Studebaker – my car (#0136)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:56:51 +0000

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A terrible picture, but this is basically the Studebaker model I had for awhile in high school in the early 1960’s – I was working half a day and needed a car to get to work. I got the car through my brother – his girl friend had a mid-1950’s Studebaker wagon that no one was using because it was fairly beat up. It was two-tone light and dark blue, easy to drive even with worn shocks and an automatic transmission that slipped some times.

The car in this picture looks distorted due to being a picture of a picture, taken at an odd angle. The link below shows what the car looked like.

www.rodauthority.com/news/ebay-find-rare-56-studebaker-commander-parkview-two-door-wagon

South Bend Studebaker 1923 lubrication chart (#0126)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:56:58 +0000

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Apologies for the glare on the picture, I snapped it quickly and didn’t realize till later how it would be an interesting reminder of the changes this reflected in car maintenance – 38 points to oil and lube, some weekly, some monthly, some every 90 days. My current car requires service about every 12,000 miles.

South Bend Studebaker 1924 Chinese cooperation (#0115)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:05 +0000

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The 1924 Light Six with custom aluminum body, fold-out windshield, teak-trimmed interior, and mohair upholstery – coachwork by Shanghai Horse Bazaar and Automobile Company of Shanghai, China.

South Bend Studebaker museum (#0108)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:14 +0000

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In the South in my youth of the 1950’s and 1960’s, just about everyone drove Ford or GM products, with a few Chrysler people. My parents were always running against the norm, driving American Motors, the few foreign makes that were around in those days, a couple of Kaisers (my favorite), and my brothers continued that tradition by buying used Studebakers – one of my first cars in high school was a Studebaker. With that family tradition, and hearing that there was a major Studebaker museum in South Bend, I had to visit. The exhibit was quite good and I learned a lot -- what follows is just a sprinkle of what I found interesting.

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For some reason I had assumed that car manufacturers started out as that, car manufacturers – as tinkerers who figured out had to make an auto, and grew from there. It was rather surprising in the museum to realize how stupid my notion had been. I had somehow never realized that horse-drawn wagons had actually been mass-produced and that there were major manufacturers with coast-to-coast dealerships and even sales overseas. As indicated in this picture, Studebaker cars weren’t some new thing basically started from scratch, but actually a development from an existing, and very well-developed business of horse-drawn carriages. Even as I write this, I’m still amazed at my lack of knowledge of industry prior to autos.

South Bend Studebaker 1909 electric shuttle (#0110)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:12 +0000

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Studebaker’s first cars were electric because gasoline powered automobiles were “clumsy, dangerous, noisy brutes which stink to high heaven, break down at the worst possible moment, and are a public nuisance.” Though in 1903 they had an electric that could run 40 miles on a charge, gas won out in popularity due to range and higher speed, so they stopped building electric in 1911.

Their most interesting electric, to me, was this vehicle which they built for the US Government in 1909. This was one of two vehicles built for the tunnel between the Senate office building and the Capitol – because there wasn’t space in the tunnel for the vehicle to turn around, it had control for driving in either direction. They had a top speed of 12 mph and could carry 11 passengers. The cars were replaced by a rail system in 1912.

Sources: placards in museum

South Bend Studebaker 1911 electric coupe (#0117)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:07 +0000

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$1850 (at that time) for a coupe that had a range of 70 miles and a top speed of 21mph (the batteries weighed 970 pounds)

South Bend Studebaker 1909 electric shuttle (#0111)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:10 +0000

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Batteries for the electric shuttle.

South Bend Studebaker cross-country ?? (#0124)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:00 +0000

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A 1927 Studebaker Commander driven from New York to San Francisco – in just over 3 days? And that’s not 3+ days of time actually driving, that’s 3+ days total (Tuesday, August 30 to Friday, Sept 2). Obviously they had multiple drivers and some sort of sleeping arrangement, but that was long before interstates and would have been on what became US 40 in 1926, a two lane highway going right through the center of every town along the way.

South Bend Studebaker 1922 Child’s Hearse (#0123)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:57:03 +0000

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Due to very high infant mortality in the 1920’s, funeral homes used special, white (to signify innocence), hearses for children’s funerals. Oddly, this was owned by a funeral home in the small western Indiana farm town of Brazil, where it doesn’t seem there would have been the wealth for such a fancy hearse.

South Bend Studebaker ‘64 sticker (#0131)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:56:56 +0000

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The actual sticker – interesting to see what was considered an accessory in those days.

South Bend Studebaker ‘64 (#0132)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:56:54 +0000

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A leap to more modern times – a 1964 Studebaker Daytona with a sticker prices of $3,256.33 ($26,473 in 2019 dollars).

South Bend Studebaker labor relations (#0142)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:56:49 +0000

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I was glad to see a display on labor relations at the Studebaker museum, and there was much moe than this. At other points in the museum there was mention of labor and community relations, and there had been a special display on the women of Studebaker at the entrance.

The sign in the middle that’s barely readable due to glare is a 1911 poster for classes that Studebaker offered to Hungarian and Polish employees who couldn’t speak English.

South Bend Studebaker war years (#0144)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 07:56:46 +0000

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I’d wondered what car manufacturers did during the war years – they made ‘blackout’ models with trim instead of chrome, non-critical metals instead of aluminum, and apparently chose non-bright colors. This car was built in 1942.

Los Angeles Railway (#0033)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:35:30 +0000

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Former Los Angeles Railway trolley, apparently under restoration. The destination sign is for Slauson and Santa Fe. The intersection is in the city of Huntington Park which, in 1906, was considered to be a streetcar suburb of Los Angeles (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Park,_California ).

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.

OERM wig-wag signal (#0085)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:30:43 +0000

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A wig-wag crossing signal. Per the link below, these were originally created to mimic the the flag or lantern waving motions a grade-crossing attendant would have taken to signal motorists that a train was coming. www.railroadsignals.us/xing/index.htm

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.

OERM city bus (#0082)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:30:18 +0000

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Didn't see any information on this, but this is much like the city buses (no air conditioning) that I was riding as a child in the 1950's.

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.

OERM electric switch engine (#0072)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:29:48 +0000

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A relatively small electric switch engine designed by GE. I checked, the GE logo is one of the few major corporate logos that has remained almost unchanged since it was designed for General Electric in the 1890's.

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.

Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Car (#0056)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:29:16 +0000

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The Pacific Electric railway was a privately owned railway that connected the various cities of the larger Los Angeles region; the destination for this one was Bellflower, a city south of Los Angeles near Long Beach. Due to the color scheme used, the line was referred to as the Red Car system. The Red Car system was extensive, covering all of the metropolitcan areas of Southern California up through the 1940's. It extended along what is now I-10 from Redlands to Santa Monica (80 miles) and along what is now I-5 from San Fernando to Newport Beach (65 miles). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.

Los Angeles Railway funeral car (#0036)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:28:43 +0000

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The casket loading area on the funeral car, with a placard describing the car's use and history.

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.

Los Angeles Railway funeral car (#0021)

nobody@ipernity.com (Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:27:15 +0000

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Like most hearses, a rather elegant design and appropriately muted colors. Built in 1909, it could be chartered for $25 for use in a funeral (see next picture for detail).

Seen at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, see Zach's photos of the museum for great detail on the various cars and signals: www.ipernity.com/doc/eight_perf/album/805772.