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Can you imagine how unpleasant it was to travel any distance in those vehicles? By way of reference, that same time-frame was a period of EXPERIMENTAL cross-continental drives by various clubs and manufacturers. Even here in America to say nothing of Mexico, there were few paved roads outside good-...

Congrats to the Haley and to Philip for his generosity!

I went to see "Midway" the other day, and was impressed with the detail of the CGI. I was also somewhat disappointed by the almost overwhelming reliance on CGI and the CGI colors seemed muted. Overall, though, I thought it was a bit over-acted. I expect the difficulty of trying to act in ...

Regarding horses, I've met a few old timers in East TN who say that when rationing took effect a LOT of people quickly went back to using saddle horses for routine tasks. This was still a very rural area and you could do that within limits. I'd have to think that there were a fair number or rural a...

My wife and I went to a new Yuppie hamburger place a couple of months ago. The waiter had a number of new piercings, some of which were infected. He wanted to sit next to me and be my buddy while he took our order. I was not amused. The food was adequate, but not worth the possibility of contaminat...

My wife and I went to a new Yuppie hamburger place a couple of months ago. The waiter had a number of new piercings, some of which were infected. He wanted to sit next to me and be my buddy while he took our order. I was not amused. The food was adequate, but not worth the possibility of contaminat...

Ah for the days when milkmen wore ties. At this point, I'd just settle for the girls working the cash register in restaurants and grocery stores to not look like they were involved in a tragic fishing tackle accident. There is nothing like a nose ring to scream 'Class.' Folks who know me would neve...

Steve Haupt wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:43 pm Ah for the days when milkmen wore ties.

At this point, I'd just settle for the girls working the cash register in restaurants and grocery stores to not look like they were involved in a tragic fishing tackle accident.

Couvi wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 5:58 pm

Pat Holscher wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:18 pm http://www.questmasters.us/Bicycles.html

I wasn't aware that there were that many different models.

I was unaware of nearly every subject addressed on that page. Apparently bikes were a bigger deal on the Home Front than I could have guessed.

Pat, I wasn't aware of that. I'm not sure how the horses would have taken to being fielded with huge clanging armored vehicles, but that is very interesting indeed. Better than a person might suppose. The peacetime US experiment with Horse Mech proved viable in that setting (peacetime) and the Sovi...

Well here's a surprise: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0361198118794288?journalCode=trra Apparently there was a "Victory Bicycle" program during World War Two that had some sort of quota system. I had no idea that was the case, and as only the synopsis is here, I still don't ...

There weren’t a lot of fields open to women to work outside of the home, either. School teacher, nurse or secretarial for the most part, were the majority of the jobs available to women. Now you have women working as guards in men’s prisons. My Dad, a classic male chauvinist of his age, once stated...

The post-War labor saving device boom did indeed allow a lot more women into the workforce. There is also the additional problem of all those ‘Rosie the Riveter’ women were being forced out of the workforce by the returning servicemen. They wanted their own jobs. It is true that women who worked in...

I had never heard that rationing bicycles was a necessity. Me either. I wonder if it was just a product shortage? A lot of companies simply couldn't make domestic products during the war as they were making military ones. World War Two had a poorly understood impact on a lot of products and in turn...

Sort of related to this, my local history calendar notes that on December 30, 1943, the state received notice that it was receiving half the "quota" for adult bicycles that it had previously been anticipating, that being 40 bikes. Bike rationing is something I wasn't previously been aware ...

Todd wrote: ↑Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:51 am
Read the very last 'Cavalry Journal' intro the other day, just before it was renamed to 'Armor Journal', and BG Herr's article in defense of horse-mounted cavalry was so bizarre it bordered on the unhinged.

Was that in the last issue?

Couvi wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:48 am Where, pray tell, were we still using oxen?

Good question!

Those are very interesting numbers indeed. I am surprised to see so many standard M1904 saddles (50K units) and 1904 modified = 1928 (66K units) in inventory so late in the game. The report is only a couple of years before the final dismount of the last cavalry units, so they must have seen the wri...