Think that's the Colt-Browning M1895 (nicknamed potato digger)
Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
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don Tomás
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Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
Or maybe crowd control? Things must have been tough in NY even in 1918...
Think that's the Colt-Browning M1895 (nicknamed potato digger)
Think that's the Colt-Browning M1895 (nicknamed potato digger)
Tom
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
-John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
-John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901
Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
And a classic old Indian motorcycle.
Why can't I find one of those setting back in someone's barn?
Why can't I find one of those setting back in someone's barn?
Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
Interesting.......(Do those uniforms look vaguely French to anyone else?)
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Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
Neat 
Pete
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
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Ji in Hawaii
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Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
Were they expecting an invasion by Hun forces in Manhattan?
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Chuck 100 yd
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Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
The great French invasion of NY in 1918!! I must have been sick the day they covered that in history class. 
Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
What I see in that photo...
Gotta control that 'traffic'...
Gotta control that 'traffic'...
Government office attracts the power-mad, yet it's people who just want to be left alone to live life on their own terms who are considered dangerous.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
History teaches that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.
Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
Pretty much all European uniforms from the 1890s-1960s are some variation on the one you see there. The current USMC dress blues is still in that style. Look at pics of Pershing, any British WW1 general, most WW2 generals (either side) and their standard dress/work uniform still falls under the general style you see.
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don Tomás
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Re: Traffic Control Motorcycle NY City circ: 1918
Well, the poster on the wall is for "Third Liberty Loan" (The Third Liberty Loan Act was a liberty bond sold during World War I)
Also, pretty sure French police wore the "képi" style of cap (think caps worn by North/South in Civil War, French Foreign Legion, Charles de gaulle, and Police Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains in Casa Blanca - "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!")
Just saying...
Also, pretty sure French police wore the "képi" style of cap (think caps worn by North/South in Civil War, French Foreign Legion, Charles de gaulle, and Police Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains in Casa Blanca - "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!")
Just saying...
Tom
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
-John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901
'A Man's got to have a code...
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
-John Bernard Books. Jan. 22, 1901