2. 1929 Buick Models

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Buick Body Plant - Circa 1929.
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Buick Body Plant - Circa 1929.

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  • Buick Logo on Hood Sides: (From the Factory Engineering Book - 2 of 2): The “Buick” logo is stamped on the hood sides. Also, no welled fender on this side for a sidemount (Factory sidemount reference is usually plural).
  • Design Studio drawing of the hood logo on a 29-27. Also, note the door handles, hubcaps and front fender parking lights (ended up on the Cadillac), which are not what ended up on the 29 Buick. At least, in this sketch, the rad cap design had been settled !
  • C. S. MOTT was a somewhat eccentric character but the definition of generous. This photo of him with his new wife (#3 - lasted 7 months) on their honeymoon in LA taken in 3/21/1929. Mott was the largest shareholder of General Motors and owned a 1929 Model 54CC. (1 of 2)
  • C. S. MOTT was a somewhat eccentric character but the definition of generous. This photo of him with his new wife (#3 - lasted 7 months) on their honeymoon in LA taken in 3/21/1929. Mott was the largest shareholder of General Motors and owned a 1929 Model 54CC. (2 of 2)
  • 29-24 sent in by Vaughn Gunthorpe. Circa 1944. The car may have been a standard Buick Roadster owned by the local matron at the Charters Towers Hospital.  There appears to be 3 men in an Australian Karki uniform and these men were wearing slouch hats. Given the state of the car this picture may have been taken in the war years  and the men in army uniforms give another hint to the photo being taken at that time. John Forester advised that “there was a contingency of troops in Charters Towers during the mid to later part of the war”. Charters Towers is a rural town in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It is 136 km by road south-west of Townsville on the Flinders Highway. During the last quarter of the 19th century, the town boomed as rich gold deposits under the city were developed.
  • Caude McGee at the wheel of a specially prepared 29-44 roadster (with high compression head special rear end, etc.) giving the GM Marketing staff a flying 98 MPH drive on the test track in July 1928. (Ed. Note: Glad they didn’t have to stop in a hurry !)
  • 29-26 - Oregon State Police car (1 of 2).
  • 29-26 - Oregon State Police car (2 of 2).
  • 1929 FIRE FIGHTING BUICKS “Protruding siren on the front looks the goods too!”  Thanks to John Forster of the Australian PreWar Buick E-Mag.  The pictured 1929 Buick fire fighting truck operated by the Soledad Division of the Los Angeles County Forestry Department is ready to go in this pose.  No doubt more for publicity use than a real fire action photo. Nevertheless, it certainly does demonstrate the sort of load that these early fire trucks (read coverted cars) had to carry before dedicated vehicles were manufactured and made available.   All the more incredible, when you consider that this vehicle possibly started life as the lightest of the Buicks for 1929, a Series 116 Sport Touring.  The car would have cost US$1,225 in standard form and weighed 3,330 pounds.  Conversion to a firefighting truck would have added to that cost considerably.   The Series 116 Buicks were a new series of Buicks for 1929 with a newly designed six-cylinder motor of 239 cubic inches that developed 74 brake horsepower.  Most items were extras including the side mounts, timber artillery wheels and bumpers. They all added up to produce a very attractive fire truck.  Protruding siren on the front looks the goods too !  This would have been one of the 2,938 Series 116 Sport Tourings built that year.
  • GREAT ATLANTIC HURRICANE 1944: (1 of 2). Thanks to John Forster of the Australian PreWar Buick E-Mag. It was 1944 when these folk found themselves pushing a well used 1929 Flxble ambulance in Brigantine, New Jersey. Now if we had to speculate, we might propose that this had some- thing to do with the Great Atlan tic Hurricane which struck the east coast of the USA on 13-14 September, 1944. Of course there may be no connection. Brigantine is located in Atlantic County, New Jersey and its only connection to the mainland at that time was a single bridge constructed in 1924 and destroyed in that storm event in 1944. Perhaps the roll out of the 1929 ambulance was necessitated due to what must have been a temporary isolation from the mainland. Brigantine was a relatively new development at the time, however our aerial photo of the area taken in 1944 still shows it to be quite devastated.
  • GREAT ATLANTIC HURRICANE 1944: (2 of 2). Thanks to John Forster of the Australian PreWar Buick E-Mag. It was 1944 when these folk found themselves pushing a well used 1929 Flxble ambulance in Brigantine, New Jersey. Now if we had to speculate, we might propose that this had some- thing to do with the Great Atlan tic Hurricane which struck the east coast of the USA on 13-14 September, 1944. Of course there may be no connection. Brigantine is located in Atlantic County, New Jersey and its only connection to the mainland at that time was a single bridge constructed in 1924 and destroyed in that storm event in 1944. Perhaps the roll out of the 1929 ambulance was necessitated due to what must have been a temporary isolation from the mainland. Brigantine was a relatively new development at the time, however our aerial photo of the area taken in 1944 still shows it to be quite devastated.
  • Buick Body Plant - Circa 1929.
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