"It would be folly to ignore that we live in a motor age. The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present-day life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim. With full recognition of motor-car transportation we must turn it to the most practical use. It can not supersede the railway lines, no matter how generously we afford it highways out of the Public Treasury. If freight traffic by motor were charged with its proper and proportionate share of highway construction, we should find much of it wasteful and more costly than like service by rail. Yet we have paralleled the railways, a most natural line of construction, and thereby taken away from the agency of expected service much of its profitable traffic, which the taxpayers have been providing the highways, whose cost of maintenance is not yet realized."
https://www.infoplease.com/primary-sources/government/presidential-speeches/warren-harding-december-8-1922
― Warren G. Harding
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35912-i-have-no-trouble-with-my-enemies-i-can-take
"There was no reasonable suggestion that Harding either knew about this affair or profited from it. His failure was not greed, but rather making some poor choices for cabinet positions and failing to monitor them. The Teapot Dome Scandal was lasting blot on the record of his administration."
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1377.html
A different type of closeted male!!
Murphy Siding charlie hebdo Given Harding's soiled/sordid reputation [prostitutes entering and leaving by the backstairs in the WH and rampant corruption scadals brewing] it's understandable that an upstanding guy like Hoover might distance himself. Garsh! You make him sound like a bad enough guy that his wife might try to have him bumped off or something.
charlie hebdo Given Harding's soiled/sordid reputation [prostitutes entering and leaving by the backstairs in the WH and rampant corruption scadals brewing] it's understandable that an upstanding guy like Hoover might distance himself.
Given Harding's soiled/sordid reputation [prostitutes entering and leaving by the backstairs in the WH and rampant corruption scadals brewing] it's understandable that an upstanding guy like Hoover might distance himself.
Garsh! You make him sound like a bad enough guy that his wife might try to have him bumped off or something.
Johnny
Warren Harding's train ride returning from Alaska would be his last.
http://intelligentcollector.com/blog/president-hardings-funeral-train-transfixed-the-world/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wXV74qFD8&t=20s
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
OTOH, Harding was making noises about going after lynching and also helped push through the first arms limitation treaty.
Something I remember from my early childhood was a mention in Trains that the use of 'Geep' was to distinguish the locomotive from the Army car.
Something that DID come from the Popeye strip was the nickname for the CB&Q streamlined S-4 Hudson. A couple of these rather ponderous things were given even more ponderous stainless-steel shrouding, complete with a nameplate reading ÆOLUS (the Greek keeper of the winds -- note the plaque on the nose of 4001) - both of 'em confusingly given that name. It was not long before roundhouse wags trying to pronounce this figured out it was the name of the Queen of the Goons in Thimble Theatre. And so, to go with the ATSF's Mae West, we got Big Alice the Goon.
No question though, the girl could run. Note the Boxpok drivers, lightweight Timken rods ... and those are 14" long-travel valves.
Victrola1Would you rather have ridden in the Dodge, or on the VIP train.
Tough choice. For the experience, the Dodge. For rubbing elbows with the high and mighty, on the train...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover appears briefly near the VIP train. Hoover is not seen getting into the Dodge with Harding.
Would you rather have ridden in the Dodge, or on the VIP train.
Paul of Covington I've been wondering--why is it that "GP" in the military become "Jeep" while on the railroads it became "Geep"? As Andy Rooney used to say, "Why is that?"
Please note that I am strictly guessing here - perhaps it's because the "jeep" term came about in and around WWII, while the "Geep" didn't come into existance until after the war.
Seems like I've seen it suggested that the Jeep (vehicle) may have taken it's name from the animal in the Popeye cartoons. Or not.
tree68 Total aside - a viewer on one the the many webcams got most upset because several people corrected their use of "Jeep" when they meant "Geep." Yes, Virginia, there is a difference...
Total aside - a viewer on one the the many webcams got most upset because several people corrected their use of "Jeep" when they meant "Geep."
Yes, Virginia, there is a difference...
I've been wondering--why is it that "GP" in the military become "Jeep" while on the railroads it became "Geep"? As Andy Rooney used to say, "Why is that?"
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Murphy Siding Victrola1 For his 1923 trip to Alaska, U.S. president Warren G. Harding travels on an unusual mode of transportation: a Dodge Roadster specially converted to run on train tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwiTRTaeEu0 Has that film been colorized?
Victrola1 For his 1923 trip to Alaska, U.S. president Warren G. Harding travels on an unusual mode of transportation: a Dodge Roadster specially converted to run on train tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwiTRTaeEu0
For his 1923 trip to Alaska, U.S. president Warren G. Harding travels on an unusual mode of transportation: a Dodge Roadster specially converted to run on train tracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwiTRTaeEu0
Has that film been colorized?
Oh, absolutely, and digitally enhanced as well. And a great job they did of it!
If I remember correctly Kodachrome color movie film wouldn't come along until the late 1930s, and even then it was expensive. Newsreel cameras would use black-and-white film right up to the time when the movie newsreel concept died in the 1960's.
54light15 Thanks for that, Flintlock- I loved that show and I loved the Mad Magazine satire of it that depicted Montgomery as Terry-Thomas. In the Imperial War Museum in London, there is a Chevrolet truck used by the desert patrol units- it was found in the Sahara in the 21st century, totally abandoned and it was brought back and displayed in unrestored condition.
Thanks for that, Flintlock- I loved that show and I loved the Mad Magazine satire of it that depicted Montgomery as Terry-Thomas. In the Imperial War Museum in London, there is a Chevrolet truck used by the desert patrol units- it was found in the Sahara in the 21st century, totally abandoned and it was brought back and displayed in unrestored condition.
I remember that Mad Magazine "Rat Patrol" satire too! The part I remember is Captain Dietrich's Germans foul up and shoot up one of their own columns. Captain Dietrich asks...
"Dit any off dose men look like James Mason?"
"Nein, Herr Captain!"
"Goot, den at least ve didn't kill General Rommel!"
Hilarious stuff!
Great show, "The Rat Patrol!" All us kids loved it!
Thanks 54', that may just be the answer!
Yep, that's Bill Maudin in "Jeanie" all right!
And by the way, nobody used jeeps as effectively as these guys...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZcbifYqpGc
I'm sure some of you could guess that was coming!
54light15 It's likely that Willy's Jeep was built by Ford. Most of them were as Willys-Overland didn't have the production capacity that was required for the big show. By the way, it's pronounced Willis, not Willees but as John Willys said, "I don't care how you pronounce it as long as you buy one of my cars."
It's likely that Willy's Jeep was built by Ford. Most of them were as Willys-Overland didn't have the production capacity that was required for the big show. By the way, it's pronounced Willis, not Willees but as John Willys said, "I don't care how you pronounce it as long as you buy one of my cars."
No. The probability is that it was a Willys product, as I indicated with production data.
54light15, I did not remember that song; I do remember Spike Jones' account of a horse race (...and, it's Handkerchief by a nose!) and his response to Adolf Hitler's "We ist der Masterrace".
I believe this will settle the matter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wr3lKNkhjU
Isn't that Bill Mauldin in the Jeep called Jeanie? Sure looks like him.
General Patton also said...
"The two deadliest weapons in the German arsenal are our own half-track and peep! The half-track because the guys in 'em get too heroic and think they're in a tank, and the peep because we've got so many God-awful drivers!"
Thanks, kgbw49 for the information. I was around back when these vehicles came into great use--but I heard very little reference to "peeps." The general public came to accept "jeep" as the designation for the smaller vehicle, and I never knew that the the larger vehicle was called a "jeep;" I did know of "armored cars."
I do not recall ever riding in one, but a local man did own a jeep.
This might shed a little light on the "peep":
http://www.ewillys.com/2015/01/28/the-official-name-for-the-jeep-the-peep/
They don't say "why", but this article backs up Flintlock76 on the whole "Peep" nickname.
https://citizen-soldiermagazine.com/forged-in-war-the-birth-of-the-jeep-in-world-war-ii/
Interstingly, the tankers during WW2 called jeeps "Peeps."
I have no idea why. General Patton in "War As I Knew It" mentions peeps, and the tankers in a 50's war movie I watched years ago called jeeps peeps.
If anyone has any idea I'd sure love to know!
Jeep also comes from a character in the Thimble Theatre comic strip by E.C. Segar that introduced Popeye the Sailor to the world. Eugene the Jeep was a magical "dorg*" who had many talents. The GP designation covered all the vehicles in the War Departments competition for a small four wheel drive utility vehicle. Willys design was the one chosen, but American Austin had one too. The Austin GP is depicted accurately in some of Billl Mauldin's earlier cartoons.
* Dorg is Popeye's pronunciation of dog.
Actually the term jeep came from the Ford model GP entered into the War Dept. competition. When they entered mass production, the Willys model was the MB (363,000) and the Ford was the GPW (280,000), virtually identical vehicles.
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