Vintage work crew photos

[PJs]

I hope those rotors were in full lock down when the 3 guys crawled inside for the picture. TO a blower of that size they would have only been lubrication for the rotors if they turned.

Agreed! Looks like a blower for a ship. I thought about casting and machining that beast and then "How many CFM is that"? Then Mrs. PJ walked by and noted how dapper those men were sporting those Mustaches of the day! Pics like these sure bring out the intrigue.

And of course would that fit on the 49 Willies on a funny car frame and a ~450hp real 302, I help make a show car out of?

Thanks Jon!

[Jon]

Testing the Peacemaker submarine. New York Harbor. 1885.

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[PJs]

Testing the Peacemaker submarine. New York Harbor. 1885.

Thanks Jon for a good rabbit hole dive. An interesting shape for a sub to me, but more interesting is the caustic soda (NaOH) engine it used and 1500lbs of lye used to drive it. Turns out that engine was used in locomotives a decade or so prior to this.

Found this article on "THE HONIGMANN CAUSTIC SODA LOCOMOTIVE: 1885" and some vintage drafting's of the systems. There are few others about them but the issue with these was the inefficiencies and more so the hazardous nature of high pressure lye going through the pipes and of course the lye itself is Highly Caustic.



Those were some brave souls to get in a box with 1500 pounds of Lye and go under water...for gosh sake!!

[Frank S]

I think the guy in the center hatch had the right idea he is wearing all of his PPE, a deep diving suit and helmet

[Frank S]

PJs , I don't think we could shoe horn in onto a 49 Willis. But it would sure be a blast to build a rat rod platform that cold incorporate it. Maybe hang it off the side of a 16V 156 Detroit lets see 16 x 156 CID cylinders x 50 fubic feet per rotor rotation turning at 3000 RPM. Yep that ought to just about be enough to propel a 50,000 Lb rat rod to 60 in 4.8 seconds Not sure how it would do a Bonneville though

[PJs]

You're probably right Frank, the plenum would be 14 feet high on a Chevy 302 and the 450hp might have a hard time driving it. In either case the motorcycle wheels on the front would have to go but the N50 15's on the back might be ok.

A 50k lb rat rod...now there is a picture. Think that might be the Root of all evil rat rods!

[Altair]

Workers at the aluminium factory in Stongfjorden, Sweden, 1908.

[Frank S]

You are correct clockguy; there are so many lost forgotten of subverted aspects of history that the only way to learn of these events is through diligent research often the only way is to actually live in other countries around the world and study the perspective of history from that countries view. from the 1500's through the 1860's there was a forced migration of some 12 million ethnic groups from the African continent. many whole villages and regions were rounded up and brought to the Americas and Europe less than half a million were actually brought to the USA while most were sent to south and central America a large number were sent to Europe.
However one tid-bit that is often overlooked is some whole regions of peoples willingly chose migration as a way to possibly have a better life for their families and friends, some of these paid for their passage by helping to convince others to migrate or enter into indentured servitude Some who came to the Americas and Europe were never slaves but were given holdings in several countries with slaves of their own.
Additionally not every person or the Caucasian race who came from Europe arrived as free persons but had paid for their passages by entering into servitude themselves. Many Irish English Scottish Dutch French Spanish Italian and Germans did this as well. There were some who lived out their entire lives being indentured slaves.
Many of the large Plantation holders treated their slaves far better that free persons living in many cities had lives of their own. the Holders built Schools and places of worship and even paid their slaves a small wage often very small but paid none the less. It was far better for them to do this than to have to be the single provider of all of their clothing food and other needs.
But what you read most in the history books is how poorly the peoples were treated along with the beatings murdering and torture.
You would have only to ask the question of to what advantage would it have been for the slave owner to constantly beat and starve the very people who were providing them with a means of revenue?
That is not to say that it didn't happen of course it did some owners were quite simply cruel also stupid as well. In general they often found themselves ostracized among other owners and more often than not lost their holdings to those who did not do these things as a general practice.
Yes there are many black marks in the pages of history but these marks are not the sole property of the USA.
the pushing of native peoples of the North American continent to so called reservations was indeed a huge black mark in History. But believe it or not there was a benevolent thought to the process. The US Government sought to end the senseless slaughter of the indigent peoples by those who were greedy for more lands. The tsalagi (trail of tears) saw many deaths more than the Government had anticipated when the 5 civilized tribes were relocated to the Oklahoma territory.
The slaughter of whole herds of millions upon millions of buffalo led to so many native people's starving who depended on the migrating heards causing many uprisings and wars The government was fed erroneous information about these uprisings which led to it sending in carvery unit after carvery unit to to attempt in quell these conflicts. This empowered too many rouge blood thirsty Generals to do their bidding as they saw fit. Fortunately some like Custer met with justice being served to them.
I take real issue when folks always say the US Government was always at fault and I equally take real issue whit the speak of the US Government always being in the right.
2 wrongs never make a right and 2 rights often equal a wrong in my opinion.
But that is just how I view things possibly because I have some native American ancestry as well as possibly European Ancestry who may have arrived as indentured, many of us have persons in our ancestry who were at least temporarily indentured to pay for their passage.

[Jon]

Blacksmith shop at Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works. New South Wales, Australia, 1916.

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[PJs]

Blacksmith shop at Walsh Island Dockyard and Engineering Works. New South Wales, Australia, 1916.

Those look like steam power hammers by the pipes running in at the top. Great Picture of the shop and the faces on the crew all look happy!!

Thanks Jon, another fabulous vintage find!

PJ