Re: far away from home
Posted by Guscha On 2022/5/19 22:33:21
Dave (O_D), I know. 14 years ago you said to me:
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It's quite amazing, in fact, how many of them are offered in Germany today.
Please find below a Packard, that served the Luftwaffe during WWII. What is it, what we see there, mounted behind the windshield? An early version of an electric front window heater or a shatter protection?
The car of the Swiss diplomat in Hungary had similar equipmment installed in 1942 (see below).
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#1 - Sorry, I forgot about.
#2, 3 - Archiv für Zeitgeschichte Zürich
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...where and when I grew up, we always called the ones without lights "wig-wags" and those with lights semaphores.
It's quite amazing, in fact, how many of them are offered in Germany today.
Please find below a Packard, that served the Luftwaffe during WWII. What is it, what we see there, mounted behind the windshield? An early version of an electric front window heater or a shatter protection?
The car of the Swiss diplomat in Hungary had similar equipmment installed in 1942 (see below).
image sources (high resolution pics on demand)
#1 - Sorry, I forgot about.
#2, 3 - Archiv für Zeitgeschichte Zürich
Click to enlarge!
Attach file:
8 - 1942.jpg (116.24 KB)
9 - detail.jpg (80.45 KB)
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