Oldie Pics

That's NOT a bicycle tire pump. The cylinder diameter is too large to get to 60 psi. The pump I remember my dad used was about 2-1/2" diameter, area about 5 square inches. It took 150 pounds push down on the handle to get 30 psi. But it pumped fast. Other pumps were more like half that diameter with an area only 1.25 inches and those would pump bicycle tires if you could push down with 75 pounds push. But pumping a balloon car tire were very slow.

In 1976 my parents drove the Alcan highway with a Scotty camping trailer. The gravel road in places was made of granite chips, that had razor edges. The car tires had 40,000 miles on them when he passed through Iowa on the way north. He had 5 flats on the trailer never got out the lug wrench. Jacked the axle up, dug the rock out with needle nose pliers, then plugged the hole and pumped them up by hand with a pump that looked like that. He was born in 1912 and already retired. A couple months after that trip the car tires starting showing steel from the radial belts. Uniroyals.

Gerald J.

Bill Long wrote: Love the look of all those B tractors.  You know when I see that many at one time I'm almost in heaven. By the way if I remember correctly the cranks were stored in the tool box of the B's.  When we unloaded hand crank B's the "host dealer" - the dealer to whom the flatcars were shipped - would provide the crank to start the tractors. Thanks for posting.  Where in the world did you get these pictures.  Single ribbed front tires and closed center Firestone tires.  Really old. Good Luck! Bill Long ps:  I'm going to copy these pictures to my computer now

Bill, the ones I posted came from the Library of Congress. There are even higher quality versions of these photos there; I posted these because they would fit the forums limitations.

This is the basic link: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

I just entered    allis chalmers    in the search bar and came up with the links.

I also used   tractors    and came up with many, many links.

The site is vast - there is much already available in digital format: audio, video, documents and of course, photos.

If you are unable to find these images, let me know, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure you can access them.

John

My Grandfather b ought a B new in 1940 and had those same single rib tires on it according to my Dad, my Dad was 9 years old at the time.