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The Clipper needs a wash? Let's use one of those newfangled mechanical car wash machines. The year is 1947.
source: TIME Inc. Attach file:  (46.05 KB) (46.30 KB) (55.82 KB)
Posted on: 2016/11/12 7:50
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It looks like the chain is just hooked over the bumper edge & doesn't look like there is any protection for shiny new chrome. If for whatever reason the car stopped the easy roll, I wonder what would happen to the bumper edge and finish -- to say nothing of a front license plate if the car had one. It would be interesting to see the rest of the apparatus.
If it is a real state of the art operating system, can you imagine the outcry if the business tried to hook up like that to someone's pride and joy today -- that is, assuming the bumper stayed on. Kind of reminds me of an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies when Jethro wanted to start a new car wash. His moving method consisted of tying a rope around the middle of a car and picking it up to move it over for a dunk in the cement pond.
Posted on: 2016/11/12 11:12
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Lmao! Cement pond dunk. Works for me!
Posted on: 2016/11/12 12:40
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It looks like the chain is just hooked over the bumper edge & doesn't look like there is any protection for shiny new chrome... Confirmed. Quote: ...It would be interesting to see the rest of the apparatus... Howard, under preparation. source: Time Inc. Attach file: (39.51 KB) (45.09 KB) (36.07 KB) (39.42 KB) (37.70 KB) (50.66 KB)
Posted on: 2016/11/12 13:23
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yeah...they wouldn't be doing that to my car....even back then.
Posted on: 2016/11/12 13:26
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The front of the Cadillac doesn't look to be much cleaner. I wonder if that stuff on the cars could be dried salt spray after a drive down a winter street.
Posted on: 2016/11/12 13:42
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...I wonder if that stuff on the cars could be dried salt spray after a drive down a winter street. Not bad but the pics were taken in May. source: Time Inc. Attach file: (41.94 KB)
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The Clipper was purposely dirtied for demonstration purposes and to dramatize the car wash capabilities. Dried salt didn't look anything like that and didn't get on the car in splotches.
Technology for this type of car wash was relatively new and adapted from car factory assembly lines. In fact, sections of the factory assembly lines were still using identical drag-along mechanisms in the 1960s. Mustangs at the Rouge Plant were dragged up to a phosphatizing unit (there were switched over there to an overhead hanger) using identical mechanical treadmill with a chain attachment. Fact. No idea why folks are making such a fuss over the car wash chain link attachment. Surely someone else remembers this was a very common set-up back then! This was the latest thing in those days to tow a car through a car wash. This is how it worked. Although they quickly stopped using hook on top of the bumper and began grabbing below. Some of the chain attachments eventually adopted a U-shaped flat metal piece instead of a hook (which lessened possibility of scratching and bumper damage). And some of these systems used two attachment chains... one front and one rear. As time went on, the chain attachment methods got even more varied and sophisticated, some using hooks from tow-truck designs. Eventually, of course, the chain link was dropped altogether. By the way, this photo was absolutely, definitely taken in the southwest downriver area of Detroit. Probaby Dix-Fort Street area judging by the look and the street signs. You can see the typical Detroit DSR streetcar (electrically driven rail cars) tracks in the middle of the street. These were normally filled in the centers and sometimes on the edges with red brick. Industrial water tower in the background is identical to those used at the Packard Plant on East Grand Blvd.
Posted on: 2016/11/12 20:51
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The time has come to wash off the salt, cement or whatsoever. As you will see later, parts of the apparatus are still manually operated, possibly to govern press-down time or to use human sensors instead of limit switches.
The car wash installation isn't brand-new as the condition of the hose pipe indicates (red marked). source: Time Inc. Attach file: (48.84 KB) (51.17 KB) (43.78 KB)
Posted on: 2016/11/12 22:08
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