1937 Ford Coupe, license A132701, at White Arrow Service Station on Seattle Highway for Loyalty Group, Seattle. Mr. Waters, attorney. 1937 Ford automobile heavily damaged on passenger side. Photograph taken on November 21, 1941.

Ford automobile; Traffic accidents; Wrecks;

Automobile at Stevens Motor Company for Morrell Pride Meats. Automobile Number 162.

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950;

1942 Plymouth coupe from Steven Motor Company, Chrysler-Plymouth dealers, for Morrell Pride Meats. Automobile Number 162 is a two-door sedan. Photograph was taken outdoors on August 21, 1942. Cars were one of the items regulated by the War Price & Rationing Board during WWll and only a limited number of people were able to get permits to buy them. The News Tribune would publish the names and addresses of the lucky buyers which also included purchasers of bicycles, typewriters, passenger tires, passenger recaps and tubes. (TNT 8-26-42, p. 5-list of purchasers) This car is what has come to be called a "Black Out" model. The Federal Government mandated that after 12/15/1941 manufacturers had to replace most of the chrome trim and other parts due to war requirements. Trim was either painted or, if it was from chromed stockpiles, it was painted over. The only chrome parts allowed were bumpers and windshield wipers.

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Steven Motor Co. (Tacoma);

Mack truck & trailer from Northwest Hauling Co. for Tacoma Truck Sales. Industrial Tacoma and Albers Mill in the background.

Northwest Hauling Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Scene of Accident. View of Pacific Avenue near South 19th Street taken on August 31, 1940 for United Pacific Insurance Company. Union Station on right, American Plumbing and Steam Supply, Shaub - Ellison Company and Garretson - Woodruff - Pratt Building on left. Wreckage of the fatal automobile-truck accident had already been cleared away by the time of this photograph. A Portland-Seattle Auto Freight truck had collided head-on with a Packard coupe the late evening of August 30th at South 19th & Pacific Ave. This caused the 11th traffic fatality of the year when Tacoma boilermaker Virgil Jones, along with his three passengers, was thrown from his vehicle. Although his passengers, and the truck's occupants, were injured, they did survived. A coroner's jury the following week found the accident to be "unavoidable" and no charges were filed against either driver. (T.Times 8-31-1940, p. 1+, article-only; T.Times 9-7-1940, p. 8-article only on coroner's inquest)

Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Union Station (Tacoma); American Plumbing & Steam Supply Co. (Tacoma); Shaub-Ellison Co. (Tacoma); Garretson-Woodruff-Pratt Building (Tacoma); Street railroad tracks--Tacoma;

Scene of Accident. View of Pacific Avenue near South 19th Street. Union Station on right, Shaub - Ellison Company and Garretson - Woodruff - Pratt Building on left. Photographed on August 31, 1940 for United Pacific Insurance Company. Virgil Jones became the city's 11th traffic fatality on August 30th when his Packard coupe collided head-on with a Portland-Seattle Auto Freight truck. Mr. Jones, along with his three passengers, was hurled from his vehicle from the collision's impact. (T.Times 8-31-1940, p. 1+ -article-only)

Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1940-1950; Commercial streets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Union Station (Tacoma); Shaub-Ellison Co. (Tacoma); Garretson-Woodruff-Pratt Building (Tacoma); Street railroad tracks--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Griffin Fuel Company truck and employees. Coal bunkers, Snoqualmie Falls Power Company Transfer House, 250 So. 19th St., on right.

Griffin Fuel Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Snoqualmie Falls Power Co. Transfer House (Tacoma);

Truck loaded with castings at Atlas Foundry.

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Atlas Foundry & Machine Co. (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Flatbed truck with large casting on back in front of Atlas Foundry.

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Atlas Foundry & Machine Co. (Tacoma); Foundries--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Doug Oldershaw of the New York Giants football team (far left) was one of five professional football players who donated their time in February of 1941 to help raise money to buy ambulance planes for the Royal Air Force - the RAF. An unidentified member of the Tacoma chapter of the British-American War Relief Committee is pointing to an ambulance airplane on the poster being held by Doug in this photograph from February 10, 1941. Five ambulances comprising a "thumbs-up" cavalcade left San Francisco, each by a different route in a cross-county tour. The ambulance on display in Tacoma, driven by Doug Oldershaw, could be seen in front of the British American War Relief Office at 914 1/2 Broadway. (T. Times 2/8/1941, pg. 3)

Ambulances--1940-1950; World War, 1939-1945--Ambulances--Tacoma; British American War Relief Committee (Tacoma);

Small black automobile stopped at railroad crossing, sign and light, tall tower building at right, industrial area in background. Photograph taken on July 24, 1940.

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Railroad crossings--Tacoma--1940-1950; Traffic signs & signals--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Truck and tractor, Buck & Bowers. A man wearing a soldier's uniform is driving a Ford tractor with a large blade on the front. Directly behind him is a flat bed truck with side. A sign for Ford Tractors-Ferguson System is painted on the side boards and Buck & Bowers is painted on the truck's door.

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tractors--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Buck & Bowers picture of truck. Buck & Sons was owned and operated by Parker J. Buck. They manufactured farm machinery, sold tractor tires and did tractor repairs. View of Ford truck with Buck & Sons information painted on side.

Ford trucks; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Buck & Sons Tractor & Implement Co. (Tacoma);

An automobile collided with a Northern Pacific train near the Shaffer Terminals. Two people were seriously injured and rushed to Tacoma General Hospital. The train engineer stated the train was travelling 20 miles per hour, the driver of the car must have felt they had plenty of time to cross tracks. The car was pushed by train for about 32 paces, before it came to a stop. View of train tracks (T. Times, 4/2/46, p. 1).

Traffic accidents--Tacoma; Railroad accidents--Tacoma; Railroad tracks--Tacoma;

Commercial Distributing Co. made five daily trips from Tacoma to Seattle, they transported machinery to many industrial facilities throughout the Tacoma and Seattle area. They were fully insured and bonded and provided their customers with fast and reliable shipping. View of Commercial Distributing Co. truck driver delivering the stern section of a tuna boat to Marvin Marine (T. Times, 6/26/46, p. 5).

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Shipping--Tacoma; People associated with transportation; Commercial Distributing Co. (Tacoma);

Lowell T. Murray. A side view of a very elegant four-door, hard-top automobile. The wide-wall tires and spare tire tucked in against the driver's side fender add to the handsome exterior of this fine automobile. Lowell T. Murray, Sr., a prominent Tacoma industrialist and civic leader, came to Tacoma as a young man from Ohio in 1908 and established the West Fork Timber Company. The Murray's residence on Gravelly Lake was called "Madera". It was the scene of a summer ball honoring house guests Elaine Schultz and Peter Strong August 17, 1946. (T.Times, 8/24/1946, p.7; TNT, 4/30/1958) TPL-8480

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Gardens--Tacoma;

ca. 1943. Teamsters Union. A sleek four-door sedan with white wall tires parked by a two-story wooden building, perhaps at the shipyards. Photograph was taken circa 1943. Ordered by (Harry) Satterlee, secretary of the Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers Union No. 313.

Automobiles--1940-1950;

Satterly - Teamsters Union. A four-door Dodge sedan with a dark finish sits in the parking lot of the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation. Both doors on each side open from the middle post and the tires are wide white-walls. Photograph was taken in July of 1943.

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Dodge automobile;

ca. 1943. Blue Gray bus accident. Bus, part of the valley system, in ditch on left. Automobiles and motorcyles parked on right. A double-decker bus moves around accident as it travels down the highway in this circa 1943 photograph.

Traffic accidents; Buses;

ca. 1943. Blue Gray Lines bus accident circa 1943. Full view of bus which has run off the highway into a barbed wire fence. The Special bus was part of the valley system servicing Puyallup. The driver's side and radiator are damaged.

Traffic accidents; Buses;

Satterly - Teamsters Union. A Ford pick-up truck with three workmen in the front seat. The windshield opens from the bottom and the spare tire rests in front of the rear fender. It has a wide running-board between the front and back fenders. The truck is parked outside building 23 at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation and has the number 30 painted on the side of the door.

Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950;

Overturned truck and car accident. A Pacific Coast Motor Freight Co. semi-trailer truck, driven by Earl W. Brook of Portland, Oregon, and loaded with 500 barrels of cherries and berries was overturned, causing damage to two cars in October of 1944. The accident was caused by a combination of the motor stalling, the malfunction of the airbrakes and another vehicle which blocked its safe passage. View of overturned truck and cars on the corner of So. 25th and Pacific Ave. (T. Times, 10/3/44, p. 3).

Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1940-1950; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; City & town life--Tacoma;

Ray Langdell accident picture of skid marks. View of skid marks left on South 13th Street and South Tacoma Way intersection, after an automobile accident. Photograph ordered by Ray Langdell.

Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1940-1950; Streets--Tacoma--1940-1950; Crosswalks--Tacoma;

Pontiac Motor Division. The Pontiac dealership offered new and used automobiles, excellent service, body rebuilding and accessories for Pontiacs and Cadillacs. View of seven unidentified men using "Sun Motor Tester" equipment on pontiac car.

Automobiles--Tacoma--1940-1950; Automobile inspections--Tacoma; Automobile equipment & supplies; Pontiac automobile; Cadillac automobile;

Bread delivery truck outside of Jordan's Bakery, the state's largest independent bakery, serving Tacoma and surrounding areas. Arthur K. Jordan began his company in 1937 when he purchased the Bert Nichols plant in Old Tacoma and opened it under the Jordan name on May 16 with six employees and one delivery truck. The bakery quickly outgrew this location and opened at 54th and Washington in 1939. The company expanded in 1941 when it purchased Apex Bakery in Bremerton. In 1950, the company won the "First Prize for Quality" in the Better Bread contest staged by the Quality Bakers of America. The competition featured bread baked by over 100 bakeries nationwide. By 1950, the company employed 131 people in Tacoma with a payroll of a half million a year. The bakery bought and used a million dollars worth of ingredients a year. Art Jordan maintained ownership and control of the company.

Jordan Baking Co. (Tacoma); Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Damage to a Tacoma Transit Co. bus after a night time car-bus accident. Firemen and workers took almost an hour to cut the driver of the car, identified as Alfred H. Bonwell - a 30 year old soldier attached to the 325th Headquarters squadron, McChord Air Force Base, out of the wreckage of his late model station wagon. Three other persons were injured. A traffic jam followed as vehicles were diverted for two hours. To the left of the photo is Lemon & Son Mobil Service Station at 6447 South Tacoma Way, and to the right is Conley's Grocery at 6601 South Tacoma Way. The bus has struck the utility pole in front of Conley's. A group of men stand and stare at the accident from in front of the service station. (TNT 3/21/1951, pg. 1)

Buses--Tacoma--1950-1960; Tacoma Transit Co. (Tacoma); Mass transit--Tacoma--1950-1960; Wrecks; Traffic accidents--Tacoma--1950-1960; Lemon & Son Mobil Service Station (Tacoma); Conley's Grocery (Tacoma); Utility poles--Tacoma--1950-1960;

Specially designed and equipped truck for street work. Highway "Super" manufactured by General Traffic Controls, Inc. This truck was invented by Tacoma police officer Carl Sohmer to paint lines on city streets. More than one color combination of striping could be applied. Photograph taken as part of a series in September of 1951.

Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960; Street maintenance & repair--Tacoma;

Specially designed and equipped truck for street work. Highway "Super" manufactured by General Traffic Controls, Inc. and invented by Carl Sohmer, Tacoma police officer to paint stripes on city streets. Parked in center of street near Chevron service station in September of 1951. Note: Marks on image are caused by deteriorating diacetate negative.

Trucks--Tacoma--1950-1960; Street maintenance & repair--Tacoma;

Exposure of an accident scene where a Greyhound bus has been involved in an accident on the Tacoma-Olympia Highway near Fort Lewis. A fireman is washing away any residual gasoline or oil with a fire hose. The bus can no longer be seen, but a car is being hooked up to a tow at the right background. What appears to be Ft. Lewis can be seen on the left hand side of the picture. The Richards panel wagon is on the left hand side.

Traffic accidents-Washington--1950-1960; Automobiles--Washington--1950-1960; Fire engines & equipment--Washington--1950-1960;

General Beer Distributors truck advertising Heidelberg beer in front of the Poodle Dog restaurant in Fife. The driver is unloading cases of beer from the back of the company's new Diamond T truck.

Trucks--Fife--1950-1960; Electric signs--Fife--1950-1960; Restaurants--Fife; Poodle Dog (Fife); Columbia Breweries, Inc. (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Diamond T trucks;