- Pennants advertise Braender Bulldog Tires. (The Braender Rubber and Tire Company, founded in 1912, sponsored a car in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 race, but it was a Duesenberg, not a Mercedes -- and it didn't win.) - Wystan
- Another Braender Tires pennant. - Wystan
- Original photographer's blindstamped logo. - Wystan
- "BRAENDER RUBBER & TIRE CO.
INFLATE TO 80[?] LBS PRESSURE
RUBBERFORD NO.1" - technogeo - Auto in showroom? - technogeo
- "INDIANAPOLIS" - technogeo
- leaking like a sieve - Kilted Cowboy
Mercedes Racer (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Mercedes Racer
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15364
Call Number: LC-B2- 2979-6
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Wystan (28 months ago | reply)
In 1913, Ralph De Palma won the Vanderbilt Cup Race on Long Island, driving a Mercedes on a set of Braender tires, which lasted the entire 500 miles without a tire change. So, is this DePalma? Might be -- and maybe he was planning to repeat his feat now, in 1914?
Braender Bulldog tires were manufactured by a company in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that had been founded in 1912 by Philip Braender, a German immigrant. (When Braender died in 1916, he left a million bucks to his wife and children. The tire company continued on into the 1920s.)
technogeo points out that this photo was taken by an Indianapolis studio -- so, presumably in Indianapolis. De Palma won the Indy 500 race in 1915 (and nearly won in 1912) driving a Mercedes racer. He won other races elsewhere as well, in Mercedes.
His Wikipedia bio includes a photo of him with his riding mechanic, Tom Alley, in his 1912 Indy car. It probably was this one -- which is now an exhibit in the Indy hall of fame museum.
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Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (28 months ago | reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_De_Palma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Braender
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rjones0856 (28 months ago | reply)
Notice the chain drive mechanism under the driver...
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sakraft1 (28 months ago | reply)
cool :)
technogeo (28 months ago | reply)
White/light grey tires with smooth treads!
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Cigüəñɐ (28 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Biało-czarne i czarno-białe (W&B and B&W), and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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