and the weird hood scoop was called the Nassau Hood Duct, just raised louvers glued onto the hood. Looks to me like a rip off of the 1967 Coronet R/T hood louvers, also useless, but reversed
Showing posts with label Tach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tach. Show all posts
Saturday, February 01, 2025
The 1973 Hurst/Olds had the first electronic digital tachometer ever, and the Nassau Hood Duct
Tuesday, November 05, 2024
great Jeep fire engine!
that tach looks very familiar... it took me some time to look up tachs, and get the brand, it's a Sun
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Thursday, April 27, 2023
someone's collection of speedometers and tach from the brass era is getting auctioned at Bonhams
these are only SOME of them... a wide variety for certain
Sunday, April 23, 2023
the shark nose Graham was one of those daring designs back when they didn't know where things might go, and companies too chances (Cord 810, Airstream Chrysler)
such remarkable brake lights, above the quarter panels and at the base of the roof. 
I believe the pennant is to show that the car is a 1939
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Looking at one of the companies from the 1930's -70s that made a wide variety of anything that would sell at Sears, JC Whitney, Popular Mechanics, etc... Fee & Stemwedel aka Airguide
Established inauspiciously at the outset of the Great Depression, the Airguide Instrument Company—originally known as Fee & Stemwedel, Inc.—managed a 60-year run as one of the country’s leading producers of “weather instruments,” i.e. thermometers, barometers, rain gauges, hygrometers and other instruments such as speedometers, tachometers, and the like. (Didn't Ed Roth's cars have Airguide guages?)
Electrical engineers Albert L. Stemwedel (b. 1904) and Richard L. Fee (b. 1900) were part of the same generation of young entrepreneurs who’d launched radio giants like Zenith, Motorola, and Admiral.
Fee spent the ‘20s (which were also his 20s) working as an electrician in Waukegan, while Stemwedel—a graduate of the Armour Institute of Technology—was an electrical contractor living in Rogers Park.
they hired Howard Taylor, who’d recently been laid off by Western Electric because of the Wall St crash and great depression, as a service man for them, as he had an inquiring mind and a lot of practical know-how.
At the height of its popularity, the Airguide brand name was associated not only with weather measuring devices like this one, but a slightly broader line of products one might categorize as “scouts equipment.” Advertisements in Boy’s Life and Popular Mechanics during the ‘40s and ‘50s showcased a healthy assortment of Airguide compasses, telescopes, and binoculars
1947 advertising
1948
Makes a lot of sense to make opera glasses, binocs, and spy glasses at the same time
not only did they make a compass for snowmobiles, they made an altimeter. Yes, for snowmobiles
I grew up in snowmobile country, never saw any with an altimeter, and frankly? Have no god damn idea why the hell a snowmobile needs an altimeter. A flare gun? Yes. A winch? Absolutely. Extra gas tank? Are you kidding? Of COURSE they need an extra gas tank. But an altimeter?
1957
they were so compass crazy, they even put a compass on a hand grip
then used that hand grip for their wind speed indicator
this nice condo building at the intersection of Winnebago and Wabansia in Chicago is their old factory
I hope you've enjoyed this look at the variety of things they made, and aren't you glad neither of us are collectors of every neat thing we see?
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