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Dark Alley Dan
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During WW1, Henry Ford was a very vocal pacifist, going as far as hiring a ship in 1916 and travelling with a gang of fellow pacifists to Norway with the stated intention of stopping the war.
Didn't work, of course, and once the States came late to the party in 1917 (as they are wont to do) he threw himself and his company wholeheartedly into the cause. One of the big projects were the "Eagle boats".
Lovely, aren't they? Sub chasers, made quickly and inexpensively at Rouge River to "sweep the oceans of the submarine threat". None saw wartime service in WW1, but several served on through WW2. Eagle PE-53 was sunk by a Uboat, but the other 59 exampels met their fate via scrapping, use as targets, or capsizing.
They weren't missed.
Didn't work, of course, and once the States came late to the party in 1917 (as they are wont to do) he threw himself and his company wholeheartedly into the cause. One of the big projects were the "Eagle boats".
Lovely, aren't they? Sub chasers, made quickly and inexpensively at Rouge River to "sweep the oceans of the submarine threat". None saw wartime service in WW1, but several served on through WW2. Eagle PE-53 was sunk by a Uboat, but the other 59 exampels met their fate via scrapping, use as targets, or capsizing.
They weren't missed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_L._Howard
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59847375/arthur-lockhart-howard
Supposedly one of the Batoche Gatling Guns displayed in the Halifax Citadel.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59847375/arthur-lockhart-howard
Supposedly one of the Batoche Gatling Guns displayed in the Halifax Citadel.
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fat tony
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^Their 'information signs' are worse than useless. Museums are not about teaching history anymore, they appear to be about subtly pitching you the political narrative of the day.
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During WW1, Henry Ford was a very vocal pacifist, going as far as hiring a ship in 1916 and travelling with a gang of fellow pacifists to Norway with the stated intention of stopping the war.
Didn't work, of course, and once the States came late to the party in 1917 (as they are wont to do) he threw himself and his company wholeheartedly into the cause. One of the big projects were the "Eagle boats".
Lovely, aren't they? Sub chasers, made quickly and inexpensively at Rouge River to "sweep the oceans of the submarine threat". None saw wartime service in WW1, but several served on through WW2. Eagle PE-53 was sunk by a Uboat, but the other 59 exampels met their fate via scrapping, use as targets, or capsizing.
They weren't missed.
Henry Ford was also cozy with Hitler.
It was all about making money, no more, no lesshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
Grizz
fat tony
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The last few times I was over for a visit there was a dagger on display in the WWII section. It looked like something a custom maker built in the 1980's. The 'information card' claimed it was carried by a Cdn. soldier in WWII. An exhibit like that just raises more questions than anything. The dagger in question resembled a 2/3 scale replica of a 17th century plug bayonet. It looked like something that got mixed in by accident from the Halifax Police Department museum. I also noticed a lot of the information cards looked like they were churned out by a disinterested student on a summer job with a cheap printer on the cheapest paper they could find.
Please do not touch seems obvious enough.
Grizz
The sole prototype of the Swiss N-20.10 Aiguillon ("Sting") fighter-bomber aircraft developed in 1951 by Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein.
Looks like a cross between a Comet and a Vulcan.
Very pretty bird.
Dark Alley Dan
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Henry Ford was also cozy with Hitler.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
Grizz
Ol' Henry became a fearsome anti-semite in his maturity. He certainly had that in common with Adolf.
At the end of WW1, FoMoCo returned the profit they had made on wartime production to the US Government. That was straight from Ford himself. Come WW2, he had changed quite a lot.
Dark Alley Dan
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Who made the better CMP?
With these vehicles, torque is more important than horsepower.
I learned to drive in the Ford version. Think it came surplus from Princess Auto. Shift gears with your left hand and no syncromesh.
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Ho ho ho, motherfckucker.
