1920's Automobiles
1920's cars were a vast improvement over automobiles from earlier decades due to the rapid pace of major advancements in 1920's automobile design and engineering. At the start of the 1920's motor cars were still relatively basic, although a huge improvement over earlier automobiles and prior transport modes, especially horse and buggy. By the late nineteen-twenties however, automobiles had rapidly progressed to become stylish, reliable, fast and beautiful machines with high levels of comfort, engineering and safety. Even by modern standards the styling of 1920's cars still looks attractive, particularly the long sweeping curves of the mudguards. However the new automotive technology they introduced has been developed further leaving the beautiful 1920's cars behind to be viewed as vintage technological and historical museum pieces.
Major automotive advances of the twenties included four-wheel brakes, safety glass for windows, and pneumatic air-filled tires - to mention just a few. Eighty years later it is easy to take for granted the major advances that took place in automobile engineering during the 1920's, as these are now everyday features on todays vehicles. However, many modern day car manufacturers are revisiting and implementing design and engineering features that were first invented and used on 1920's cars - hybrid petrol-electric engine systems are just one example!
At the beginning of the 1920's decade most cars were painted in dark colors - more often than not, black - due largely to the Ford influence and lack of suitable colored automobile paints. However, this situation changed in 1925 and 1926 when a whole rainbow of colors became available following the invention of pyroxylin finishes, as you can see in the beautiful illustrations below. The beautiful rich vibrant colors and complementary color schemes were borrowed from the proven livery schemes of horse-drawn carriages and coaches that had been developed by artisans over centuries of use.
This is a celebration of 1920's Automobiles, taken from actual advertisements of the era. The beautiful color illustrations in the Adverts are much more attractive to me than the color photo's which eventually replaced them. Many of the color advertisements show the cars in actual settings of the period, helping to bring the 1920's period back to life for modern readers by displaying cars in their original surroundings. If you weren't there, this is the next best thing!
1928 Chevrolet Sedan Advertisement
1920's Car Buying Advertisement Targeting Women Drivers
In this colorful Ad Chevrolet tries to tempt fashion conscious women drivers with stylish new car designs, fancy color schemes, and lower prices. They obviously recognized that women had a major say in the purchase of an automobile. Hey, nothing has changed!
1927 Cadillac Coupe
Colorful Cadillac Coupe advertisement from 1927
1927 Cadillac Coupe
AMERICA, by way of Cadillac, has proven that the finest does not always and of necessity cost the most. Everyone knows that the Cadillac is the one car regarded by everyone as the finest automobile in America. In the light of that fact, it is almost inevitable that the public should award to Cadillac a volume that amounts to more than half the nation's demand for fine cars. The result, of course, is plain to anyone who contrasts the first cost of the Cadillac with that of any other car which may properly be compared. The economies effected by the huge Cadillac production actually reverse the usual economic order and make this finest of all fine cars at the same time substantially lower in price. Priced from $2995 upward, f.o.b. Detroit.
Car Bonnet Ornaments and Symbols
Sculpted Car Bonnet Ornaments of 1920's Automobiles
Vintage Car Emblems from the Era of Style
Before car bonnet (hood) decorations were banned due to the potential danger they posed to pedestrians in accidents, they were a feature that adorned many automobiles, especially in the 1920's. Many of these beautiful icons were designed and created by famous sculptors under commission from the car manufacturers.
Diana, goddess of the chase, smiles at us from the cap of a speedy motor car of the twenties, the Moon.
Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, Minerva, Atalanta and the mythical Centaur also grace the caps of nineteen-twenties cars.
Dieties - graceful, young, daring swooped down from the impressive front of a Rolls Royce, or gave an assured self-confident stare from the cap of the Safety Stutz.
These beautifully sculpted bonnet emblems of the 1920's are a thing of the past due to modern automotive regulations but you may be fortunate enough to see them in real life in a vintage car rally or in an automobile museum.
"In February 1914, he added a mechanized belt that chugged along at a speed of six feet per minute. As the pace accelerated, Ford produced more and more cars, and on June 4, 1924, the 10-millionth Model T rolled off the Highland Park assembly line. Though the Model T did not last much longer--by the middle of the 1920s, customers wanted a car that was inexpensive and had all the bells and whistles that the Model T scorned--it had ushered in the era of the automobile for everyone."
Before car bonnet (hood) decorations were banned due to the potential danger they posed to pedestrians in accidents, they were a feature that adorned many automobiles, especially in the 1920's. Many of these beautiful icons were designed and created by famous sculptors under commission from the car manufacturers.
Diana, goddess of the chase, smiles at us from the cap of a speedy motor car of the twenties, the Moon.
Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, Minerva, Atalanta and the mythical Centaur also grace the caps of nineteen-twenties cars.
Dieties - graceful, young, daring swooped down from the impressive front of a Rolls Royce, or gave an assured self-confident stare from the cap of the Safety Stutz.
These beautifully sculpted bonnet emblems of the 1920's are a thing of the past due to modern automotive regulations but you may be fortunate enough to see them in real life in a vintage car rally or in an automobile museum.
"In February 1914, he added a mechanized belt that chugged along at a speed of six feet per minute. As the pace accelerated, Ford produced more and more cars, and on June 4, 1924, the 10-millionth Model T rolled off the Highland Park assembly line. Though the Model T did not last much longer--by the middle of the 1920s, customers wanted a car that was inexpensive and had all the bells and whistles that the Model T scorned--it had ushered in the era of the automobile for everyone."
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