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No explanation for this photo - obviously post-V-8 era. A true motor home !

The radiator cap is missing! Maybe it boiled over a lot or ??

I’ll bet left turns were a b#’@tch

I guess you have somebody at each window to tell you if it is ok to change lanes !

That photo popped up somewhere else but I can't recall where. Someone mentioned those were 16" Chevy wheels. I don't know. Also the location was mentioned but I lost track.
Seeing the crank and crankcase tells me it could be driven but visibility would be a challenge.
Thanks for bring it to the Forum. We'll give it some good scrutiny.
Rich

Rich, it's awful hard to come up with something you haven't seen or done
As for "changing lanes" I only see one track on that dirt trail that the feller is having to clear with an axe

A comment on the forum where I lifted this wondered if it was a motorized sheep camp ? I could go with that.

I wonder where the cooling air from the radiator went? If they used that to heat the home, it would be very smelly!
Norm

Norm, so are most sheep camps !!

not a Sheppard ... cuffs of his britches are not tucked into his boots ... also seems to have painted face white ? also there is a home in background ... probably not a "sheep camp " ... always an optimist Gene French

I think his white face is a "wound mask", fairly common in the post-ww1 era when people would survive a ghastly, debilitating event (say half his face blown off), as to appear normal in public... There was a popular TV show (Boardwalk Empire?) where one of the main characters lost a third of his lower face and wore one to hide the disfigurement in a WW1 blast...

I think (maybe) the side windows are about where the driver would be sitting... still, it would take a HUGE amount of courage to drive something like that. ESPECIALLY on anything more than a rural 1 lane road.

Well I "haven't seen or done" everything yet but I have found some fun places to stick my nose. I found a Shorpy version of that photo in a larger format. We can see the rivets and the '26-'27 frame brackets better. Also this:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/41 ... 1419009906
We get a lot of fun stuff on this forum and I love to see them. I don't remember seeing it before but I like to snoop around and see what else I can find out. Photos bounce around on the web. I see ones I have posted pop up in odd places. I can google "Splitdorf Sparkplugs" and still see a MTFCA photo of them with my Harley in the background.
Thankyou and the others for contributing the fine pictures and offering comments.
Rich

Gene_French wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:26 pm

not a Sheppard . . . cuffs of his britches are not tucked into his boots . . .

Geez, Gene, how do you know what his last name is ? And - what you're implying about shepherds and tucking pantlegs into knee-boots is a stereotype based on a vicious calumny. Sometimes we don't.

If the pic is correct then the steering appears to be on the left side (USA type), the pitman arm is visible and also there appears not to be any emerg. brake rods. I agree the seat position would be relative to that side window.

OK, I see now where I had seen that picture before. It was in Hemmings Classic Car June 2021. (Yes it's out already.) They offered that it was taken by Marion Post Wolcott in December of 1940 outside Camp Livingston near Alexandria, Louisiana. "Construction worker's (home-made house car)". Wolcott worked for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information.
I'm glad it is here on the forum too.

My guess is that it was either driven or towed to the location of the work, as a place to sleep while the work was being done. Probably never left the ranch it was on. It also sat unused for a spell, as evidenced by the wood boards leaning across the inside window frames to keep thieves from sliding up the windows.

I go along with those who think that it probably isn't driven on public roads. Look at the condition of the tires!

It is left hand drive with a left side window to look out of, it must be driven by a railroad fireman, comfortable with leaning out that window to see what is ahead. lol

It is left hand drive with a left side window to look out of, it must be driven by a railroad fireman, comfortable with leaning out that window to see what is ahead. lol

Rich Eagle wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:46 pm

That photo popped up somewhere else but I can't recall where. Someone mentioned those were 16" Chevy wheels. I don't know. Also the location was mentioned but I lost track.
Seeing the crank and crankcase tells me it could be driven but visibility would be a challenge.
Thanks for bring it to the Forum. We'll give it some good scrutiny.
Rich

My research says "Alexandria Louisiana Trailer Park 1940."
A photograph by Marion Post Wolcott of a construction worker's trailer (homemade house car). He is working at Camp Livingston. Dec. 1940.