Neat things I discover (re: more vintage photos)

[Sherlock77]

Still reviewing scans of vintage photos, came across one airplane one (below) More text below the photo

Thank goodness this one had good identification on the side of it, airplane CF-BQM turns out to be a rare airplane called a Barkley-Grow T8-P1 (a mouthful), obviously a 1940's photo likely... So, Barkley-Grow was an American company that only made 11 of these prior to WW2, eight of them came to Canada, three of them still exist today

And... I have likely seen this airplane, maybe been inside it possibly, as this exact airplane is at our local airplane museum! I mean the exact airplane! This photo doesn't seem to come up in any public searches, possibly because the photographer wasn't professional, thus it may have "sat in a shoebox" for years...

And the plane in Calgary? BARKLEY GROW T8P-1 | The Hangar Flight Museum

 

[Streetwise]

this is a colourised unblurred version for me

 

[Outdated]

this is a colourised unblurred version for me

To me the colourised version is more blurred, the words "Canadian Pacific Airlines" are illegible.

 

[Sherlock77]

To me the colourised version is more blurred, the words "Canadian Pacific Airlines" are illegible.

The original photo is quite small but rather sharp considering the time frame when it was taken, this is likely someone's private photo that hasn't been seen before, I have contacted the museum

A business card for comparison next to the photo

 

[maycontainthunder]

One thing I do with old pictures of cars, bikes, etc is look up to see if they survive. Most of the time the registration number is 'dead' but sometimes there is a surprise. One car I looked up recently was an Austin Seven in a picture taken some time in the late twenties. It was registered in the FC series (City of Oxford. Issued 1903-1926). To use Dr Frankenstein's phrase 'It's alive!'.

 

[Sherlock77]

One thing I do with old pictures of cars, bikes, etc is look up to see if they survive. Most of the time the registration number is 'dead' but sometimes there is a surprise. One car I looked up recently was an Austin Seven in a picture taken some time in the late twenties. It was registered in the FC series (City of Oxford. Issued 1903-1926). To use Dr Frankenstein's phrase 'It's alive!'.

That wouldn't work here in North America, the license plate is only unique to the owner, any car would just simply get updated license plates for the owner as time went on

And, no, there isn't a registry for 1926 license plates