Dieselpunk

Gare de Brest

2012-01-30T01:35:00.000-08:00

Brest Railway Station
1936-1937
Architect: Urbain Cassan

Photo: B. MEHEUST @ Flickr

Dieselpunk Cityscape

2012-01-29T02:33:00.001-08:00

By Rob Watkins

See "Diesel Era Giants Gallery" (NEW!) @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Golden Age

2012-01-28T01:17:00.000-08:00

Dornier Do R4 Super Wal and LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

Bodensee (Lake Constance), ca. 1929

Red and Silver

2012-01-27T01:30:00.000-08:00

1953 Leyland Titan PD2 Water Tender/Fire Pump*

Photos by homer----simpson (top) and Pyewipe Jct @ Flickr

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* Different reg. plates, same vehicle: recently, the Titan received it's original registration (PRR 1).

Superhavy SPG

2012-01-26T01:21:00.000-08:00

The SU-14 self-propelled gun started it's life as an element of the "Big triplex", proposed in 1931 for the Red Army mobile artillery. The concept was developed by the Military Academy of Motorization and Mechanization. Using the B-4 8in howitzer, T-28 tank transmission and elements of the T-35 superheavy tank and powered by the M-17T diesel, the device was tested in 1935 and 1936.
In the end of 1936, two SPG's were rearmed with a new Br-2 6in gun. Three years later, during the Winter War, they were armor-plated and sent to the front. Both were used in 1941 for defence of Moscow. One SU-14-1 (6in) is preserved at Kubinka proving grounds, Russia.

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Minneapolis, 1925

2012-01-25T01:24:00.000-08:00

Artist: Louis Lozowick

Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum

See Industrial Art of Louis Lozowick @ Dieselpunks.org

Metropolis in Red

2012-01-24T01:44:00.000-08:00

From Metropolis Collection

Designer: Kamila Gawrońska-Kasperska

Photo: Matyas Misetics
Model: Michaela G.

See "Dieselpunk Fashion" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Central do Brasil

2012-01-23T01:24:00.000-08:00

Estação Dom Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro
Tower: 122m tall
Construction finished: 1945
Architect: Robert R. Prentice

Photo by Raul Lisboa @ Flickr

Sturmschwalbe

2012-01-22T01:23:00.000-08:00

Torpedo bomber developed by AHGG for the Atlantic Republic Navy

Rendered by vasillich for atlantic_rep LJ community

See "The Machines of Atlantis" (NEW GALLERY) @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

The Great Helmsman

2012-01-21T01:17:00.000-08:00

Il grande nocchiere, 1937
by Ernesto (Michahelles) Thayaht (1893 - 1959)

Wolfsoniana - Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Nervi

Photo by quadralectics @ Flickr

At the Court of Peace

2012-01-20T01:09:00.001-08:00

French pavilion
1939/40 World's Fair, Flushing Meadows, New York

designed by Roger-Henri Expert and Pierre Patout

Construction Expo

2012-01-19T01:26:00.000-08:00

Artist: Jo Pieper
1925

See "Dieselpunk as an Art Movement" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Bristol Will Build Them

2012-01-18T01:14:00.000-08:00

An advert issued by Bristol Development Board
1947

via mikeyashworth @ Flickr

See "Dieselpunk DIY" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Power Station

2012-01-17T01:30:00.000-08:00

MOGES power station (Moscow) designed by Ivan Zholtovsky
1929
Photographer: Alexander Rodchenko

See "Dieselpunk Visual Art" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Wing Formation

2012-01-16T01:10:00.000-08:00

Boeing XB-15 demonstration
1939

Read about this unique experimental aircraft @ boeing.com

Read "Dieselpunk and the Gaming Industry" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Serpantine

2012-01-15T01:27:00.000-08:00

Artist: Giuseppe Ricobaldi Del Bava

Read "The Tenets of Dieselpunk Culture" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Less Watch, More Quality!

2012-01-14T01:23:00.000-08:00

Introduced in 1935, Lip T18 was small, technologically advanced and reliable enough to earn a reputation of the French watch industry flagship. In 1948, Winston Churchill received a T18 as a token of respect and gratitude from the Government of France.

Manufactured at Lip factory in Besançon, this watch had many faces (and cases) during its near-30 years' lifespan. But one feature remained unchanged: if it is not rectangular, it is not a T18.

Source: FAM

See "Dieselpunk Fashion" (updated) @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Casablanca, Oviedo

2012-01-13T01:26:00.000-08:00

Architect: Manuel del Busto.

1929

Photo by Gonmi @ Flickr

See "Our Gallery" (NEW!) @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Bauart Hamburg

2012-01-12T01:41:00.000-08:00

A two-section VT 183 diesel-electric unit, ex-DRG SVT 137 225, photographed in 1984 in DR livery.
(Stefan Kier collection)

"Bauart Hamburg" @ dbtrains.com

Flying Hamburger and other fast diesel-electric trains of the German Reichsbahn @ dieselpunks.org

Read "Components of Dieselpunk" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

The Persecutor

2012-01-11T01:26:00.000-08:00

Heavy attacker, Navy Air Arm
Two 950hp pusher engines
4 x 20mm cannons, 6 x 8mm MGs, 3 x 13mm MGs, 500 kg bpmbs

By der_fluger for the Atlantic Republic project

See "Dieselpunk Fiction and Literature" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Café Baltique

2012-01-10T01:23:00.000-08:00

ZUS building. Gdynia, Poland

Arch. Roman Piotrowski
1936

See Online Resources @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Shout

2012-01-09T01:25:00.000-08:00

What Have You Done, Comrade?

2012-01-08T01:36:00.000-08:00

What's your contribution to Air Arm buildup?

1920s
Read "Dieselpunk Anthropology" (new article) @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Saturday Prowlers

2012-01-07T01:24:00.000-08:00

Photos by CrusinBy @ Flickr

Photo by Rayal @ Flickr

Photos by exfordy @ Flickr

See "Contemporary in Origin" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Caproni-Campini N1 (CC.2)

2012-01-06T01:33:00.000-08:00

It is perhaps surprising at first sight that, having been the second nation to fly an air-breathing jet-propelled aeroplane, Italy did not feature among the leading nations in this field of technology. But in truth the Caproni-Campini N.1 was no more than an ingenious freak which employed a conventional piston engine to drive a variable-pitch ducted-fan compressor with rudimentary afterburning. As such it did nothing to further gas turbine research, and was to all intents and purposes a technical dead-end.
The N1 (CC.2) WW2 aircraft was created through the merging of the design of Secondo Campini with the capability of production by the Caproni aircraft firm. It featured a basic piston propulsion engine that utilizes a fan compressor system for added fuel combustion. This made the N1 to have an afterburn characteristic.
The N1 (CC.2) was designed as a large aircraft which can accommodate a crew of two. It was low-wing monoplane with a single vertical tail surface. An open intake was located in the extreme forward position while the extreme rear has an exhaust that could be jettisoned during flight. The aircraft also featured fully retractable landing gear and had straight-wings. Since it was not a full-blown turbojet aircraft, the power of the N1’s lone piston engine can only allow it to achieve a top speed of 375 km/h (233 mph).
The two-seat low-wing N.1 (sometimes referred to as the CC.2) was first flown at Taliedo on 28 August 1940 by Mario de Bernadi. A number of set-piece demonstration flights was undertaken, including one of 270km from Taliedo to Gindoma at an average speed of 209km/h, but it was clear from the outset that use of a three-stage fan compressor driven by a piston engine would limit further development, and the experiment was abandoned early in 1942 when Italy was faced with sterner priorities. The N.1 survives today in the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Milan as a monument to ingenuity if not sophisticated technology.

Sources: WW2 Planes, Virtual Aircraft Museum

See "History of Dieselpunk" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

A Man in a Hispano Suiza

2012-01-05T01:27:00.000-08:00

A poster for Jean Epstein film
1933

Watch the video

See "Dieselpunk on the Small Screen" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Familiar Face

2012-01-04T01:28:00.000-08:00

In 1932, Ferdinand Porsche developed a rear-engine prototype for NSU, designated "Typ 32". The company's contract with FIAT, signed shortly after, halted the further development. NSU-badged "Car for Everyone" never saw production but the concept gradually evolved into the KdF "People's Car".

Typ 32 in Posche Museum, Zuffenhausen. Photo by anhndee @ Flickr

See "The Diesel Era and Decodence" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Things to Come

2012-01-03T01:23:00.000-08:00

1936

See "Dieselpunk Cinema" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Lenin Library, Moscow

2012-01-02T01:33:00.000-08:00

Designed by Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Gelfreikh in 1927-1929, the building was authorized in 1929 and commenced in 1930. The first stage was largely complete in 1941. In the process, the building acquired the modernized neoclassicism exterior features of the Palace of Soviets (co-designed by Shchuko and Gelfreikh), departing from the stern modernism of the 1927 drafts.

Photos by q3p @ LJ

See "Dieselpunk as An Art Movement" @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

The Grand Opening

2012-01-01T01:15:00.000-08:00

Everything you always wanted to ask
about Dieselpunk:
sources of inspiration and style icons
films and games
fashion and fiction
definitions and trends
theoretical ramblings and useful links
NOW ALL IN ONE
DIESELPUNK ENCYCLOPEDIA

Presented by Larry Amyett, Jr. and your humble servant

Don't be afraid to ask!

Dieselpunk Encyclopedia
A companion to

HAPPY DIESELPUNK YEAR!

Artwork by Stefan Prohaczka

Night, Chicago World's Fair

2011-12-31T01:11:00.000-08:00

Gustaf Oscar Dalström, 1933

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Across the Atlantic

2011-12-30T01:12:00.000-08:00

On July 1, 1933 General Italo Balbo, the air minister of Italy, led a flight of SIAI S-55X's from Orbetello, Italy, to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in just over 48 hours. There were 24 S-55X flying boats in General Balbo's flight. They completed the entire flight both over and back in a tight V formation. Even today pilots frequently refer to a large formation of aircraft as a Balbo.

(Allstar Network)
See also: Transmigratori

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Atlas House

2011-12-29T01:28:00.000-08:00

Wellington, New Zealand

Built in the early 1940's and originally a commercial building, Atlas House was converted into apartments in the 1990's.

Photo by Deco Danny @ Flickr

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Miniwatt

2011-12-28T01:23:00.000-08:00

by A.M. Cassandre
1931

Read about A.M. Cassandre @ Dieselpunks.org

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Road Zeppelin

2011-12-27T01:18:00.000-08:00

This is the first version of the Ludewig Aero type Straßenzepp (Road Zeppelin) Essen with 21 seats. Based on an Opel Blitz 3.5 tonnes chassis and powered by a 64 hp engine, it was first bus, teste in the wind tunnel . The development was carried out in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Emil August Everling of the Aerodynamic Research Institute (AVA) in Göttingen.
Other features: self-supporting all-aluminum body. The hallways are next to the frame, the seats are mounted on the frame and facing outward. The trunk is moved to the roof, directly over the heads of the passengers. Total height about 2 meters. The vehicles boasted luxury features including a refrigerator for 21 bottles of champagne. Nevertheless, it is the first of the very popular Autobahn-Bus in the 30s.

Info: mke124 @ Flickr
Photo 1 via cheryldecarteret @ Flickr
More German streamline coaches @ Dieselpunks.org

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Hotel 600v

2011-12-26T01:43:00.000-08:00

By 600v @ DeviantART

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Winter Holidays Show

2011-12-25T01:21:00.000-08:00

Marconi Model 707
Television Sound and Vision Receiver, "an ideal model for use in rooms of average size", 6.25 x 5'' screen.
1938

Source: Vintage Television Sets

Red Giant

2011-12-24T01:07:00.000-08:00

Valentina Kulagina. A poster for Soviet art exhibition, Zurich

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Hollywood-style Inauguration

2011-12-23T01:04:00.000-08:00

Fokker F-32 of Western Air Express

Source: Flight Global

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Coulter Lamps

2011-12-22T01:23:00.000-08:00

A pair of streamline table lamps manufactured by Coulter in Toronto, Canada.
These lamps were available in copper and chrome finish.
1947

Photo by prattmision @ Flickr

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Justicialista

2011-12-21T01:54:00.000-08:00

Diesel locomotive built in 1951 (yes, the date is correct: Nineteen Fifty-One) by FADEL, Argentina for 400-km Constitución - Mar del Plata route. Powewred by two 735hp Sulzer diesel engines.

Vienna Driving School

2011-12-20T01:31:00.000-08:00

by Ernst Ludwig Franke

Italian Crocobomber

2011-12-19T01:40:00.000-08:00

The prototype of the Piaggio P.32 twin-engine bomber flew in early 1936 powered by two Isotta Fraschini Asso XI V-12 engines. Of mixed construction, the P.32 had a stubby fuselage with a low/mid-set wing incorporating Handley-Page leading-edge slats and double trailing-edge flaps, and a tail unit with twin fins and rudders. The V-12 engines were later replaced by 746kW Piaggio P.XI RC.40 radials. Armament comprised a single 7.7mm Breda machine-gun in a nose turret, and twin guns of the same type and calibre in retractable dorsal and ventral turrets.
A production series of 16 P.32s with Isotta Fraschini engines went into service with the 47a and 48a Squadriglie B.T. of the Regia Aeronautica during 1937, only to be withdrawn and scrapped the following year after a crash which indicated irremediable control problems. Twelve radial-engined aircraft under construction were never completed.

Info: Virtual Aircraft Museum

French Riviera Express

2011-12-18T01:24:00.000-08:00

Pierre Fix-Masseau for PLM Railway
1929

Never Built

2011-12-17T01:25:00.000-08:00

Hans Poelzig, design for a skyscraper at Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
1921

via kraftgenie @ Flickr

Ariels & Mozzy

2011-12-16T01:22:00.000-08:00

RAF Ariel motorcycles and de Havilland DH.98 FB Mk VI fighter-bomber

Winter Noir

2011-12-15T01:26:00.000-08:00

By vnetwatnik @ LJ

Brainwasher

2011-12-14T01:20:00.000-08:00

By 600v @ DeviantART

Original

Dieselpunk Label III

2011-12-13T01:13:00.000-08:00

By IllustratorG @ DeviantART

Original

Lethal Flying Wing

2011-12-12T01:19:00.000-08:00

AHGG Heavy bomber, 1935

First strategic bomber of the Atlantic Republic Army Air Corps.

Powered by six JuMo diesel engines it was capable of delivering a 1,000 kg bomb load to the distance of 6,000 km. At shorter ranges maximum payload could be increased to 7,200 kg.

More images (by vasillich)

© 2011, Atlantic Republic Community

Aircar

2011-12-11T01:39:00.000-08:00

By Waldemar-Kazak @ DeviantART

Original

Gotham Metro

2011-12-10T01:35:00.000-08:00

By Ladonite @ DeviantART

Original

Kirov Cruiser

2011-12-09T01:26:00.000-08:00

The project was designed with the technical help of Italy, where the machinery for a lead ship was bought (earlier intended for Eugenio di Savoia light cruiser). The ultimate variant of project 26 was approved on Dec. 29, 1934 and under it two ships, Kirov for Baltic Fleet and Voroshilov for Black Sea Fleet were laid down.
Protection of cruisers of project 26 included 50mm belt with 121m length and 3.4m height, covered by 50mm transverse bulkheads. 50mm main deck was connected with its upper edge. Turrets and barbettes from all directions were protected by 50mm plates, the conning tower had 150mm sides and 100mm roof. Steering gear compartment was covered by 20mm armour.
Turrets were Italian-designed, placing all main guns in the common gun slide. Original armament consisted of 3 x 3 - 180mm, 6 x 1 - 100mm, 6 x 1 - 45mm guns, 4 x 1 - 12.7 MGs, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 1 K-12 catapult, 2 KOR-1 seaplanes, 100 mines.
Kirov was commissioned into the Baltic Fleet in the autumn of 1938, but was still being worked on into early 1939. She sailed to Riga on 22 October when the Soviet Union began to occupy Latvia, continuing on to Liepāja the following day. During the Winter War, Kirov, escorted by the destroyers Smetlivyi and Stremitel'nyi, attempted to bombard Finnish coast defense guns at Russarö, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Hanko on 30 November. She only fired 35 rounds before she was damaged by a number of near misses and had to return to the Soviet naval base at Liepāja for repairs. She remained there for the rest of the Winter War and afterwards was under repair at Kronstadt from October 1940 to 21 May 1941.
Based near Riga at the time of the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, Kirov was trapped in the Gulf of Riga by the rapid enemy advance. She supported minelaying sorties by Soviet destroyers in the western half of the Irben Strait on the evenings of 24–25 and 26–27 June. Off-loading her fuel and ammunition to reduce her draft, she passed through the shallow Moon Sound Channel (between Muhu island and the Estonian mainland) with great difficulty, and managed to reach Tallinn by the end of June. Kirov provided gunfire support during the defense of Tallinn and served as the flagship of the evacuation fleet from Tallinn to Leningrad at the end of August 1941. For most of the rest of the war she was blockaded in Leningrad and Kronstadt by Axis minefields and could only provide gunfire support for the defenders during the Siege of Leningrad. She was damaged by a number of German air and artillery attacks, most seriously on 4–5 April 1942 when she was hit by three bombs and one 15-centimeter (5.9 in) shell that damaged all six 100 mm AA guns, the aft funnel, the mainmast, and killed 86 sailors and wounded 46. Repairs took two months during which her catapult was removed; a lighter pole mainmast was fitted and her anti-aircraft armament increased. After Leningrad was de-blocked in early 1944, Kirov remained there, and took no further part in the war except to provide gunfire support for the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid–1944.
Kirov was damaged by a German magnetic mine while leaving Kronstadt on 17 October 1945 and was under repair until 20 December 1946. She was refitted from November 1949 to April 1953, during which her machinery was completely overhauled and her radars, fire control systems and anti-aircraft guns were replaced by the latest Soviet systems. She participated in fleet maneuvers in the North Sea during January 1956.
She was reclassified as a training cruiser, regularly visiting Poland and East Germany, on 2 August 1961 and sold for scrap on 22 February 1974. When Kirov was decommissioned, two gun turrets were installed in Saint Petersburg as a monument.

Sources: Navypedia, Wikipedia

Streamlined Ocean Liner With Runway

2011-12-08T01:27:00.000-08:00

1935 illustration from Popular Science

Scanned and restored by paul.malon @ Flickr

Palace of Television

2011-12-07T01:30:00.000-08:00

An inscription on the pediment of the pavilion closer to the opening of the first railroad - in 1835, the first public demonstrations of television in 1935.
The film (in Alberteum), radio-broadcast (the Pavilion of the INR), television, synthesis of these two marvels of modern times, were therefore equally represented in the Exhibition.
The experiments took place in Brussels, before Paris, using apparatus of "Société des Compteurs de Montrouge" (Corporation Counters), patent "Barthélémy", similar appliances those adopted by the P.T.T. minister (Postmaster) equipment for state positions.
Inside the pavilion, the viewfinder was faced with a small screen on which appeared the artist - a singer or musician - who was in the nearby studio: the image was reduced and tinted green. The artist had to smear the face of a special make-up and unflattering, but the image was true and perfectly recognizable. The sound, on the other hand, was not changed the transmission, a shortwave station was installed to do this, inside the Pavilion, by technicians of Radio Schaerbeek.
The principle was: the scene takes place in a glass cage, under fire from eight powerful "spotlights". In a camera, behind a goal similar to that of the camera shooting, an aluminum disk with holes punched in a spiral, spinning at 1,500 revolutions. He strained the light ray and each hit a photodetector, the latter in turn, sent rays at the transmitter, which sent them in waves.
A receiver welcomed them and passed them (for 60 lines, 25 frames, 90,000 "pulses" per second) to a special screen, consisting of a glass coated balloon, at its upper end with a fluorescent substance . The contact with the substance of electrons allowed to reconstruct the image by successive bright spots. The transmitted and presented to the public was about 20 centimeters square ten yards separated the screen artists "televisioned".
If the method in its early days yet called improvements, it nevertheless displays the solution to a problem passionately discussed. And the success of the Palace of the TV was very lively. It just did not attract the attention of crowds. Among other visits, he received those of King Leopold III of Ministers Devèze Van Isacker, Destree; MM. Adolphe Max, Van de Meulebroeck, Count Adrian van der Burch, Caspers, Charles Fonck, M. Laroche, Ambassador of France and members of many scientific associations and others.

Livre d'Or - Expo 1935

Source: worldsfaircommunity.org

Fiat Motor Oil

2011-12-06T01:13:00.000-08:00

Artwork by Marcello Nizzoli
1930

Via paul.malon @ Flickr

Timetravelling Werewolf

2011-12-05T01:29:00.000-08:00

Episode 5 of the ongoing series "Constitutionens Voktere"

It might pay to watch episode 3 (Monster Noir) and episode 4 (...where things get complicated) before watching this episode. Or not. Up to you. Enjoy!

By Røyseland Fiction Compagni

7, rue Méchain, Paris, 14ème

2011-12-04T01:37:00.000-08:00

Staircase, 7th floor
Architect: Robert Mallet-Stevens
1928-1929

Photo by David Mery @ Flickr

Read about Robert Mallet-Stevens @ Dieselpunks.org

Poster Art

2011-12-03T01:19:00.000-08:00

Artist: Hermann Keimel

1931

HMS Prince of Wales, 1941

2011-12-02T01:15:00.000-08:00

King George V-Class Battleship ordered from Cammell Laird at Birkenhead under the 1937 Build Programme on 29th July 1936. She was laid down on 1st January 1937 and launched on 3rd May 1939 as the 12th RN ship to carry this name. Completed on 31st March 1941 and had been delayed by damage to the build shipyard during air raids on Merseyside.
She was heavily involved in the first contact with the German battleship Bismarck and the cruiser Prinz Eugen, and landed a critical hit on Bismarck, causing her to make the ill fated decision to return to port. Prince of Wales suffered heavy damage during the engagement and had to return to Rosyth to be repaired. She transported Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Newfoundland Conference with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

On 25 October 1941 Prince of Wales departed for Singapore to join Force Z, a British naval detachment. She docked there on 2 December with the rest of the force, and on 2:11 on 10 December Force Z was dispatched to investigate reports of Japanese landing forces at Kuantan. On arriving there they found the reports to be false. At 11:00 that morning Japanese bombers and torpedo aircraft began their assault on Force Z. In a second attack at 11:30 torpedoes struck Prince of Wales on the port side, wrecking the outer propeller shaft and causing the ship to take on a heavy list. A third torpedo attack developed against Repulse but she managed to avoid all torpedoes aimed at her. A fourth attack by torpedo-carrying Type 1 "Bettys" sank Repulse at 12:33. Six aircraft from this wave attacked Prince of Wales, with four of their torpedoes hitting the ship, causing flooding. Finally a 500 kg bomb hit the catapult deck, penetrated through to the main deck and exploded, tearing a gash in the port side of the hull. At 13:15 the order was given to abandon ship and at 13:20 Prince of Wales sank; Vice-Admiral Tom Phillips and Captain John Leach were among the 327 fatalities.

(Info: naval-history.net, Wiki; Photo: Maritimequest)

New Moscow

2011-12-01T01:30:00.000-08:00

Artist: D. Moor

Vechernyaya Moskva daily, Dec. 7, 1933

Via valaamov_osel @ LJ

Looking Ahead

2011-11-30T01:06:00.000-08:00

Artist: Arthur Radebaugh*

via x-ray delta one @ Flickr

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* More Radebaugh artwork @ Dieselpunks.org

AutoShow

2011-11-29T01:11:00.000-08:00

Artist: Carl Meurling

Proto-Punk

2011-11-28T01:20:00.000-08:00

Portrait of Marinetti, by Tato

Source: Karen Pinkus article @ unknown.nu

Flying Fortress, French Version

2011-11-27T01:15:00.000-08:00

Dyle et Bacalan (S.A.B.) AB 20 heavy bomber
1932

Info: EN FR RU

Art Deco Mocha

2011-11-26T01:32:00.000-08:00

Poster art by Richard Weiss @ Flickr
2007

Good Morning, This Is BBC

2011-11-25T01:35:00.000-08:00

BBC Broadcasting House, London

Construction of Broadcasting House began in 1932, and the building opened to the BBC's offices and radio operations on 14 May 1934, eight years after the corporation's establishment. George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBC's civil engineer, M T Tudsbery. The original interiors were the work of Raymond McGrath, an Australian-Irish architect. He directed a team which included Serge Chermayeff and Wells Coates and designed the vaudeville studio, the associated green and dressing rooms, and the dance and chamber music studios in a flowing Art Deco style. It was later said of his efforts that "the designs for the BBC gave the first real fillip to industrial design in England. " (Wikipedia)

Photo by vanman11 @ Flickr

Toy Rail Zeppelin

2011-11-24T01:15:00.000-08:00

A miniature by Maerklin

Read about real Rail Zeppelin @ Dieselpunks.org

Down to the Foundations!

2011-11-23T01:42:00.000-08:00

NAPF (Japanese Proletarian Artists Federation) magazine cover, Feb 1931

Via pinktentacle.com

Two Trimotors

2011-11-22T01:35:00.000-08:00

Fiat G.12 medium transports

(Info: Italian Aircraft of WWII)

Photo: from Aerei della Regia Aeronautica

From Makeup to Truck

2011-11-21T01:29:00.000-08:00

A cover of Selected Poems by N. Agnivtsev

1926

ALCOA and the Clarke Autotram

2011-11-20T01:34:00.000-08:00

1933

via paul.malon @ Flickr

Drapacz Chmur

2011-11-19T01:24:00.000-08:00

Drapacz Chmur (English: Skyscraper) is a historical building in Katowice, Silesia, Poland. It was the first skyscraper built in post-World War I Poland. Finished in 1934 after five years of construction, it made pioneering Polish use of steel frame construction. Today, Drapacz Chmur is considered the most spectacular and beautiful example of functionalism in Poland.

The building has seventeen stories, fourteen above the ground, and contained one of the first garbage chutes in Poland. It is 60 m tall and until 1955, it was the highest building in the country. It was designed by architect Tadeusz Kozłowski and structural engineer Stefan Bryła to house Polish Revenue Office employees.

Info: Wiki (EN, PL)

Photo by Lestat (Jan Mehlich) @ Wikimedia Commons

Interchangeable!

2011-11-18T01:24:00.000-08:00

French Rex Reflex camera (1949) was the world's first medium-format TLR with interchangeable lenses. Different lens panels were offered, ranging from 59 to 240mm.

Source (in French, with more info & photos)

Hat Factory

2011-11-17T01:26:00.000-08:00

Steinberg factory building. Luckenwalde

1921

Camel & Dragon

2011-11-16T01:17:00.000-08:00

London Underground poster by Austin Cooper, 1930

One of a series of London museum posters issued by the Underground Group in c.1930 - this Austin Cooper showing a rare mix of images and also artist drawn lettering rather than the more commonly used Underground 'Johnston Sans' font.

From mikeyashworth's photostream @ Flickr

Light Tractor

2011-11-15T01:07:00.000-08:00

SPA TL37

Northern Italy, ca. 1944

Source: Italie 1939-45 (FR)

Dutch St(r)eamliner

2011-11-14T01:12:00.000-08:00

#3804 steam loco of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch National Railways)

Source: Nico Split collection

Some info (and questions) on the NS 3800 Class @ Dieselpunks.org

Too Hard, Too Heavy

2011-11-13T01:23:00.000-08:00

Harley Davidson VSC/LC (Landsverk 210)

A Harley Davidson was fitted a armor chassis build to Danish specifications by Landsverk (Sweden) in 1932. This configuration didn't perform well. Hard to steer on-road, and almost impossible to drive off-road due to the heavy chassis. Negotiations were held with Landsverk about a lighter chassis, but without any results and the motorcycle was de-mobbed in August 1933.

Picture courtesy of Ole Drostrup, Soenderborg

Source: Danish Army Vehicles

Asbóth Helicopter

2011-11-12T01:13:00.000-08:00

Hungary 1928

On September 9, 1928, Oszkár Asbóth took off vertically with his helicopter powered by a 120 HP nine-cylinder engine and propelled by two wooden propellers, each 4.35 meter in diameter, placed parallel above each other and rotating in opposite direction. Tires were replaced by four footballs to provide sufficient flexibility for landing. During the first flight, after 1100 rotations the plane swiftly took off, at ten meters stopped, hovered for some ten minutes, remained absolutely stable around all axes, than smoothly descended.

The two large wooden propellers raised Asbóth´s device into the air together with its pilot more than 200 times and hovered in the air for almost one hour, which was a great achievement, but because of their rigid propellers Absóth´s „helicopters" became unstable when moving forward or when subjected to a strong side wind.

By his good business sense Absóth was able to profit from his inventions. The British Air Ministry got an option of purchase of his helicopter in 1938.

Not Gone But Well Forgotten

2011-11-11T02:21:00.000-08:00

Moscow's first automatic telephone exchange
Designed by V. Patek
Built 1927-1929

Photographed on Sept. 9, 2011

Adding & Printing

2011-11-10T01:14:00.000-08:00

via paul.malon @ Flickr

His Master's Voice

2011-11-09T01:16:00.000-08:00

A poster by Donald Brun

Savoia Trimotor

2011-11-08T02:03:00.000-08:00

Savoia Marchetti S.M.75 of the Hungarian airline Malert in Berlin
1930s

Make It Happen

2011-11-07T01:21:00.000-08:00

Dieselpunk is more than streamline design, weird weapons, elegant fashion and flying boats. It is music - melodies of old and sound of tomorrow.

Over the last 16 years, Wolfgang Parker founded the Dieselpunk genre with his 1998 debut album “Hep City Swing,” and went on to release 3 additional albums, “Octoboure” (2000), “Room Nienteen” (2007), and “Petty Standards” (2010). “Father of the Black Cat, Pt. I” is the first batch of all-original music the band has recorded in 10 years.
“Father of the Black Cat, Part I” offers not just new music, but a new approach to music all together. By embracing the independent fundraising platform of Kickstarter, Wolfgang and his band will give an all-access view into the creation of the album as well as Wolfgang’s personal insight into the songs themselves; songs Parker says are the most honest, and personally revealing he has ever written. Videos will be shot by the band as they rehearse, track, and hear the final mixes for the first time.

JOIN THE PROJECT. ENLIST NOW!

Backers can choose rewards ranging from .mp3 files of the songs to a hardcopy CD autographed by the entire band, hand written lyric sheets, and more. A few backers will have the chance to snag ultra-rare copies of Wolfgang’s early albums, “Hep Ciy Swing,” “Octoboure,” and the American edition of “Room Nineteen” autographed by the band to the individual backer.

A portrait of Wolfgang: from the Lovely Gianncarlo @ myspace

Isobloc Bus

2011-11-06T01:19:00.000-07:00

by Géo Ham
1948

German Radar, 1937

2011-11-05T01:27:00.000-07:00

From the DLR Archive

The Panther

2011-11-04T01:17:00.000-07:00

Parnall Panther N96 showing the hydrovane and floatation gear inflated
1918

Harold Bolas's first design for Parnall was the remarkable Panther; among its notable features was a birch ply monocoque fuselage of some depth with the pilot and observer placed high for a superb all-round view. The fuselage was hinged for shipboard stowage; for ditching the plane had a hydrovane ahead of the undercarriage as well as air-bag floatation gear.

From PARNALL - Bristol's Other Plane-maker by Alan Webb

Conveyor Assembly

2011-11-03T01:18:00.000-07:00

Gorky Auto Plant
1930
by Alexander Shaikhet

Dictatorship

2011-11-02T01:54:00.000-07:00

1933

via x-ray delta one @ Flickr

National Flight School

2011-11-01T04:19:00.000-07:00

A poster by by Kees Van Der Laan

Lion Included

2011-10-31T01:12:00.000-07:00

By Lajos Marton

DAM Publicité, Paris
1930

Eight-Wheel Drive

2011-10-30T01:22:00.000-07:00

An 8x8 Daimler Benz all-terrain vehicle, designed by Ferdinand Porsche
1928

Stained Glass

2011-10-29T01:01:00.000-07:00

Underground Airport

2011-10-28T01:13:00.000-07:00

Aeroport (Russian: Аэропорт, Airport) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Its name, literally meaning airport, owes to the nearby Khodynka Aerodrome, Moscow's first airport which has by now ceased operation. Presently there is a bus terminal (Goraerovokzal, Гораэровокзал) which has regular service to Moscow's principal airports. Opened in 1938, the station features a single-vault design. Built using a cut-and cover method, concrete segments of the vault were pre-cast and then lowered into the station.Architects B. Vilensky and V. Yershov applied the aviation theme to this big open station, in what is seen as some of the best examples of Soviet Art deco architecture. The most noticeable design feature is the network of intersecting ribs that fan out across the vaulted ceiling. These ribs originate from fan-shaped limestone panels spaced at regular intervals along the walls, which are red marble with shell-shaped brown marble insets. The floor is reveted with grey granite. Lighting comes from pyramidal objects which house luminescent lamps, although originally the station had chandeliers with normal tungsten bulbs.

(Photographed on Sept. 11, 2011)

Early alternate design by B. Vilensky & D. Savitsky

Info: Wikipedia

Life & Art

2011-10-27T01:50:00.000-07:00

Merna Kennedy
ca. 1926

Transcontinental

2011-10-26T01:10:00.000-07:00

Five-engine mail/passenger floatplane

Concept by lnago @ atlatic_rep LJ community

Littoria Tower, Nerviano

2011-10-25T01:28:00.000-07:00

Via Italie 1941-45 Forum (FR)

Littoria Tower aka Torre dell'acquedotto in 2007 (Wikimedia Commons)

Crocobomber

2011-10-24T04:55:00.000-07:00

Amiot 143

Info

Natural Treatment

2011-10-23T03:03:00.000-07:00

A poster by Jupp Wiertz
1930s