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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:59 pm Post subject:

Before campers there was the 1934 Thompson House Car:

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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 7:08 pm Post subject:

A more recent retro-future car; the 1980 Oldsmobile Aurora concept:

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Bud Brewster · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:50 pm Post subject:

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Krel · Guest

I've read about that car, it was designed by a Reverend who wanted to design the world's safest car. I don't know if he succeeded in designing the safest car, but he sure designed one of the ugliest cars around.

David.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:31 pm Post subject:

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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:35 am Post subject:

Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 3:15 am Post subject:

The 1948 Tasco:

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Pye-Rate · Starship Co-Pilot Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 625

Retro weird manuscript for sale.

http://zeroequalstwo.net/auctioning-off-a-collaborative-work-by-houdini-and-lovecraft/
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Brent Gair · Mission Specialist Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 465

The Avro Canada Jetliner was quite a sensation when it flew in 1949. It was a 4-engined jet airliner optimised for intercity use. Howard Hughes wanted 30 of them for TWA.

Unfortunately, Avro Canada's CF-100 all weather fighter was running behind schedule and, with the outbreak of the Korean War, Avro was ordered to concentrate it's limited resources on CF-100 production. The Jetliner languished and was eventually cut up. A second prototype was under construction but never completed.

Had it entered production, people would have been jetting from city-to-city a dozen years before the Boeing 727 flew.

scotpens · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 9:22 pm Post subject:

The Avro C102 Jetliner was the world's second jet transport to fly. Britain's De Havilland Comet prototype made its first flight 13 days before the Canadian jetliner took to the air. The Comet entered commercial service in 1952.

Unfortunately, metal fatigue (little understood at the time) caused three of the early Comets to crash. By the time the cause of the crashes had been determined and the plane redesigned, Britain had lost its lead in commercial passenger jet travel.

Some nautical retro-future: Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes' 1932 proposal for a streamlined ocean liner . . .

. . . and a similar but more fanciful design from Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1938.

Krel · Guest

Norman Bel Geddes was also the designer of the 39 New York World's Fair GM Futurama exhibit. Norman Bel Geddes did fantastic work, and has been ripped off...Uh, has influenced and been paid homage to by several designers. Too bad his book is out of print.

Butch, that 1948 Tasco looks like it would have right at home in Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon comic strip.

David.

Pye-Rate · Starship Co-Pilot Joined: 14 Dec 2013 Posts: 625

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