Lightweight Fiat AFV

Carro Protetto A.S. 37

German Economic Wonder

Book cover by John Heartfield

More Racing Red

1939 Siata Sport Barchetta

Photo © Matteo TT Stucchi @ Supercars

Champions' Cap

A.M. Cassandre, 1925

Rail Torpedo

Soviet 2-3-2V experimental locomotive
Designed & built at the Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk) machinery works
Top speed - 175 km/h
1938

This particular locomotive has become an icon (although not an official symbol) of the Soviet Railways for at least two decades. Not bad for a unique, rarely seen item!

Underground Poster

London Underground

1928

Elevated

by Andreas Feininger
1940s

Fasces on the Wall

Pontinia (about 70 km from Rome) is one of the new towns founded (and/or extensively developed) in the Latina province.

Its public buildings stand as a silent reminder of Mussolini's rule.

Divine Wind

A Mitsubishi Ki-15 prototype,
called Kamikaze-go (Divine Wind), became famous as the first Japanese aircraft to fly from Japan to Europe.

The Tokyo - London flight, sponsored by the Asahi Simbun newspaper, started on April 6, 1937. In April 12 the plane landed at London's Croydon airport. The total elapsed time since departure was 94 hours, 17 minutes and 56 seconds, with actual flight time for the whole distance of 15,357 km of was 51 hours, 19 minutes and 23 seconds.
Thanks to pinktentacle we can enjoy the greeting cards printed in Japan to honor the historic flight.

Cards
Aircraft info (Wiki, EN)

Red Arrow

Diesel motor coach M290 Class – Tatra 68

1936

Only two units were manufactured for the Czechoslovak railways (ČSD). Called Slovenská strela (Slovak Arrow), in the 1930s they were used for the fast connection between Prague and Bratislava, covering the distance in 4 hours and 28 minutes with a maximum speed of 130 km/h (regular timetable was scheduled for slightly slower average speed).
They were taken out of service when World War II started in 1939. Afterwards, they were only deployed in local connections.

Tutima - a Pilot's Chrono

In 1941, Uhrenfabrik AG Glashutte started to produce a Flieger Chronograph for the Luftwaffe - a rugged high-precision timepiece with luminous numbers and hands.
A 15-ligne, 21-jewel Cal. 59 manual winding movement with flyback feature was the heart of this time machine:

Soviet Air Sleigh

Light-armored NKL-26

Armed with one DT machine gun (0.3in)

Powered by 110 HP M-11G engine

Top speed - 70 kph

1941

Grand Prix, 1934

Louis Chiron, the French Grand Prix winner
Alfa Romeo P3, the car

Radio for 1940

Swedish Turtle

NK II, an experimental tank destroyer, 75mm gun
1943

Night Guardians

Czechoslovak AA post w/120mm vz.20 searchlight

1930s

Italian Ad

c. 1930

Imperial Airways

Boulton & Paul P71A

by Keith Woodcock

BMW 328 MM Touring Berlinetta

1939

Photo © Wouter Melissen
Source

New Style

Narkomzem (Department of Agriculture) building, Moscow
1931
Photo by Boris Ignatovich

The building, designed by A. Shchusev, D. Bulgakov, I. Frantsuz & G. Yakovlev, was constructed in 1928-1933.

4 shots of the same building taken in 2005

3 photos (2007) and some info (EN)

Fiat CR.32bis Fighter

Designed by Celestino Rosatelli

Derived from earlier Fiat CR.30 designs, the CR.32 was a more streamlined and smaller biplane fighter. The prototype MM.201 first flew the 28 April 1933 from the Fiat company airstrip at Turin.
The Regia Aeronautica CR.32s fought in North and East Africa, in Albania and in the Mediterranean theatre. It also saw service in the air forces of China, Austria, Hungary, Paraguay and Venezuela. Used extensively in Spanish Civil War, it gained a reputation as one of the outstanding fighter biplanes of all time. But then it was overtaken by more advanced monoplane designs and was obsolete by 1939. From the Spanish Air Force it finally retired only in 1954.

Return of the Trolleybus

Now in color

Paranoid Android

by Goran Delic

Mauser Einspur-Auto

1923

Photo © Passe par tout @ Flickr

Contre-Torpilleur

Known as 'destroyer leaders' or 'flotilla leaders' in other navies, French 'counter-torpedoboats' were the largest and most powerful of the interwar heavy destroyers. The Tigre, commissioned in 1926, had five 5.1" guns and 55000-SHP turbines on 2126-ton displacement.
She was scuttled in Toulon in 1942, raised by the Germans, taken over by the Italians and later returned to France. The Tigre fought with the Allies and has a distinction of being the only ship of her 6-unit class to survive the war. She was decommissioned in 1954.

Imperial Timepiece

Seiko wristwatch, military issue
WWII

Sir Nigel Gresley

A4 Class number 4498 steam locomotive

Named after Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).
The locomotive is now preserved at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and is in daily operation, following a 10 year overhaul to working order. It is owned by Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust Ltd. and operated by the A4 Locomotive Society Ltd. on behalf of the Trust.

By Brian the Emphonium @ Flickr

Stereotypes

From The Newspaper series
by Alexander Rodchenko
1928

The Longest One

Böhmerland or Čechie was a motorcycle produced in Czechoslovakia from 1924 until WWII, notable for the having the motorcycle with longest ever wheelbase, 10.5 feet (3.2 m) in one version.
Böhmerland was also the first to produce solid cast wheels, of iron

Borsigturm Berlin

68-meter structure built in 1925 once housed the Borsig-Werke offices
Now it's a hotel

© Bundesarchiv

Tractor Diesel

Made by Hürlimann Tractor company,
Montpellier, Switzerland

via lnago @ Dieselpunk LJ community

Portable in Red

Olivetti ICO (MP1)

1938

Source

Somua Tank, 1940

by Daniel Bechennec

New Year's Model