1970 Twin Coach TC-25 advert

elegance for the masses with a Paris commuter train

A Paris commuter train on the RER C line, which serves Versailles, has had its 6 double-deck cars transformed to resemble rooms in the Chateau de Versailles.

(thanks to Cliff for sending this in)

Polish railway stamps

Left to right, top to bottom:

Electrification of the line from Warsaw to Silesia, 1957; 0-6-0 museum loco; 4-6-4 loco exhibited in Paris, 1937 (see earlier post); first electric multiple unit between Pruszow-Warsaw-Otwock, 1936 (see earlier post); 0-6-0 loco from 1907; mainline 2-10-0 for hauling coal from Silesia to Gdynia, 1933; first locomotive factory in Polsce-Chrzanow, 1920; 'Cockerill' on iron road Warsaw-Wiedenska, 1848.

AC spark plug advert, November 1953

With a 1954 Chevrolet Corvette.

Port Chalmers, Dunedin, drawing 1886

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1964 Pontiac GTO

 

This may or may not have been an official publicity photo.

Shaw Savill stamp

A now defunct major shipping company founded in 1882 (the full name for many years was Shaw Savill & Albion) which had offices in several NZ locations, some of these feature incidentally in our books.

boats in Shanghai, China, a century ago

Rio de Janeiro trolley art

 

A streetcar in Santa Tereza, artwork by Antonio Meijueiro

Swiss Federal Railways freight car advert, 1942

 

"Quickly load, quickly unload, fully load" written in Italian and German; 2 of Switzerland's official languages.