Old Photo - Traffic Cop "Standing The Soap Box"

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2013: Old Photo - Traffic Cop "Standing The Soap Box"
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 10:47 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 10:52 am:

Cool photo, Jay. What is that truck nearest the traffic cop? The radiator shell, front axle/spring assembly look like a T, the running boards like a TT, but the rest of it isn't T. Maybe some sort of form-a-truck?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 11:10 am:

The Fords and the Hudson are nice, but what caught my eye is the traffic signal. I remember those well. Considering the number of intersections in thousands of cities all across the country, there must have been at least a million of those signals. But you never see them today in old stuff for sale. Wonder where they all went.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Seth from NC on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 11:35 am:

Hey Henry - I don't know if it's a form-a-truck kind of kit but it is very neat. Dual solid tires, springs on either side of frame and perpendicular to the rear-axle housing. Looks like it is really beefy and made to carry a big load. I can't really see well enough to tell what kind of rear-end assembly it is - or if maybe there is a gearbox in front of it? Maybe somebody with some photo software can make out more.

Also funny is that the C cab in the back has a left fender but no right fender.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Eagle Ida Fls on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 11:46 am:

Great picture. No chain drive like most Form-a-trucks. Can't see the differential well but might even be a trans-axle. Looks like maybe some linkage there. Shifter or brakes.
'26 or '27 hood and maybe nickel headlight rims.
Rich


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Sosnoski on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 12:04 pm:

26-27 front fenders as well.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Harold Schwendeman - Sumner,WA on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 12:14 pm:

Steve - I'm sure those old traffic signals are basically a pretty big and heavy hunk of cast iron; think maybe WW11 scrap drives! (???)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 11:01 pm:

I recall signals like those in San Francisco in 1953.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, September 05, 2013 - 11:53 pm:

Yep, I remember them after the war too.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Allan Richard Bennett on Friday, September 06, 2013 - 08:15 am:

I supplied a True-Fire to a fellow with a similar truck conversion to that in the picture. It was deigned to turn a TT into two ton truck. His has the same eliptical spring set-up and a heavy bolted on rear chassis extension. In front of the usual TT rear axle was an accessory transmission. The extra length of the chassis was accommodated by fitting a short jack-shaft between the transmission and the displaced TT rear axle. This was supported by an extra cross member on the accessory frame.
I cannot remember the name of the manufacturer.

Just for interest,

Allan from down under.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Friday, September 06, 2013 - 08:58 am:

Thanks Allan. Now that you mention it I think I've seen a photo of a set-up like you're describing. That just leaves one question - how do you suppose a pair of 26/27 front fenders turned up on a TT? It didn't come off the Ford line like that.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By David Stroud on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 04:33 am:

That truck also has a '26-'27 hood and the headlights appear to be the early '26 style that bolt to the fenders. My guess is that it is a '26 car chassis with the heavy truck conversion. I have seen period adds similar to this to convert the car chassis to trucks much like the Smith Form A Truck conversions, but much heavier. Dave


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Wayne Sheldon, Grass Valley, CA on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 02:35 pm:

It looks a bit like the Jewett truck conversion that Stan Howe posted a thread about. Stan's Jewett was on a car frame. (It sold for $1800 at auction)
Great photo! Thanks Jay!
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Seth - Ohio on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 08:16 pm:

I can't believe that no one has commented on that rare albino turtle crossing the street


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 11:53 pm:

That's a WWI helmet that fell off a float in the Armistice Day Parade. (Harold Lloyd movie)


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