Zep Diner

The Zep Diner in Los Angeles, California was part of the airship craze of the 1920′s and 1930′s.
The Graf Zeppelin visited Los Angeles during its 1929 Round-the-World flight, and the most famous American dirigible was the U.S.S. Los Angeles.
The Zep Diner was located at 515 W. Florence Avenue in Los Angeles, near the intersection with S. Figueroa. The location is now the parking lot of a McDonald’s.

Source: Airships.net

Railway Club Hotel

28 Station St, Seymour, Victoria

Photo by Chris&Steve @ Flickr

Transatlantic Giant

This large quadrimotor flying boat, a joint venture of Caproni and Reggiane (usually listed as Ca.8000), was designed during WWII, intended for transatlantic passenger / mail service. The project has been aborted in 1944.

Image: ww2drawings

Practical Kitchen

Artist: Helen Haasbauer-Walrath
1930

via pour15minutesdamour

Delage V12 Labourdette Vutotal

In 1937 Delage, Delahaye and STAS decided to created a closed Grand Prix car. Louis Delage had his engineer Albert Lory build a new 4.5 liter prototype engine on a Delahaye 135 chassis.
Fitted was a spectacular body that was designed by Jean Andreau. His wooden model was then sent to the workshop of Carroserrie Labourdette where Jean Henri Labourdette manufactured the body and used his patented Vutotal glass windshield.
As #4, it participated in the 1937 French Grand Prix, but was damaged during practice. It was then repaired and repainted in two-tone for the Paris Auto Show. Afterwards its body was removed for more standard coachwork. The new body debuted at Brooklands but was destroyed in a lethal crash.

Info: Richard Owen @ Supercars.net

Trimotor Mailplane

Artist: lnago @ LJ
for the Atlantic Republic project

Crystal Radio

A medium wave crystal radio receiver,
manufactured by Heliogen in Germany
1935

The coil of wire (left) is the tuning coil. It is wound in a "basket-weave" pattern to reduce resistance at radio frequencies. In front of it in the glass tube is the cat's whisker detector, consisting of a crystal of galena touched by a fine wire, which extracts the audio signal from the radio frequency carrier wave. In front of that is the tuning nob, connected to an adjustable capacitor which is used to tune in different stations.

Text & image: Badseed @ Wikimedia Commons