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BeauxPurdy
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My grandparents used expression 'Puddle Jumper' for little cars.
So I looked it up:
1. a light plane, especially one traveling only short distances or making many stops.
2. an old, rickety automobile; flivver
I think the "Puddle Jumper" painted as advertisement here ties in w/ these photos I found of airplane on beach.
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Interesting photos-- I am familiar with the airplane term, but I didn't know it could refer to an auto.
Scott
Scottves,
Thank-You!
If you could guess a year, what year would you think these were taken?
I'm sorry, ScottveZ,
I am horrid typist!
Based on the airplane, I would say about 1915- 1925. Can you read the writing on the side of the plane?
Scott
Wow. I can't see/read airplane, but I will try to get better image.
I am amazed, it reads, 'US COAST'
"Guard" is hidden. You can see the same on the boat.
The crest near the front also looks like USCG.
Scott
I would suspect that this is one of the earliest US Coast Guard airplanes.
Online research will probably reveal the exact age of the plane and this photograph.
Scott
oh my. Now I am going to have to go back and get more photos and negatives out of the huge jumble left in grandparents house, I thought I had all I wanted, but now....
I want more, I really like photos that are this old.
I looked on the USCG site to see if I could ID the aircraft-- it looks closest to the Aeromarine 40 (first aircraft on the link); however yours looks like an earlier version (less wing support).
I'd contact the USCG History branch and see what they have to say!
Link to site I looked at:
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/aircrafttypeindex.asp
Scott
Historian Office link is on the left side top of the above.
Scott
Beaux get as many of the prints & negatives that you can you don't know what gems are waiting to be found.
Keep us posted if you contact the USCG Historian.
Scott
I havn't contacted them yet, I went back over to my grandparents house & retreived more photos & negatives. I've been sorting thru them, what a mess & shame. For decades they were kept organized in envelopes & then they were just removed from envelopes and looked at & tossed on floor. It is mega mess.
I do beleive that these could be from 1927 or 1932 from markings on back.
I think...Maybe....