ANDERSON 1919

WESTCOTT 1923

ARGO Motor Company 1918

The LYCOMING of 1923

FIAT of 1911

One of the first Italian designed cars sold in the US.

CHURCH FIELD ELECTRIC of 1912

The FRIEDMAN ROAD WAGON

Our Car.

The story of the automobile is one of the most exciting and important chapters in the history of the human being and transportation. During the late 1800's cars were so new and strange looking that they were shown in lunaparks and circuses. Today over 300 million cars travel on the roads of the world. Many people use their car to make a living, others use their car to get to their work or travel for pleasure. Before people had automobiles to drive walked when traveling short distances, Rode a horse or traveled by horse drawn coaches or carriages.  In fact the first automobiles were called horseless carriages and only the rich could afford them. Over the years  the often small automobile factories has developed in a giant industry and now nearly everybody is able to buy a car.
In 1770 the French Nicolas Joseph Cugnat operated with succes a 3 wheeled vehicle, powered by steam and in 1860 another Frenchman, Jean Joseph Lenoir developed an internal-combustion engine, while in 1885 in Germany Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler developed the gasoline engine of the type we see in today's cars.      When driving in your today car remeber the first vehicles in which our great-great parents went on their daily scores. Lets also not forget that many governments today see our car as a milk-cow.

WOLVERINE STATE

s.s. WOLVERINE STATE, owner United
States Shipping Board, San Fransisco, Calif.
USA. Build 1920 at New York Shipbuilding
Corp., Camden, NY, USA.
Grt. 10533, loa. 157.38 mt.

The real Passenger Liner

Since I was a young kid I always loved ships and as I was living at 10 minutes walk from the port of Amsterdam, called 't IJ  often my friends and me could be found wandering the along this water. were we saw the large cargo vessels from the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland, VNS, Vinke or the smaller ships from the KNSM passing on their way to far and exotic shores. For us it was a real treat to see a SMN passenger liner like the "Oranje" or "Johan van Oldenbarnevelt". These were elegant, beautiful ships with pleasing lines and I am sure that ship lovers worldwide will agree with me that the ships built till the late eighties still looked like what they were, ships. Think about the passengers ships of the German HAPAG, the or the Dutch Holland Amerika Lijn. A passenger ship was an ocean going ship with a hotel on board, offering all kinds of comfort, vessels meant to carry both goods and passengers.  The great French liner "Ile de France" was such. Who did not like to see the l;ast great French liner "France" cut through the waves,  the "United States" or "Rotterdam". Today the passenger ship, or cruise liner as they are now called look like condominiums floating on the water, square and ugly looking monsters with inside a kind of holiday resort. The time they spend at sea is limited to a minimum, mostly a few hours only, just long enough to sail from one touristic attractive port to another. To see how a real passenger liner should look, one must go to the port of  Rotterdam to see the last real Holland Amerika Lijn passenger liner, the "Rotterdam", or perhaps, in a far future the once proud "United States". I sincerely hope that this example of the art of ship building will be saved. It might be possible as long as politicians with their hypocrisyand double talk do not get involved.