Search Results: Transportation from Royal Books, Inc.

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1974. Final Shooting script for the 1974 film, copy belonging to character actor J. Edward McKinley, with manuscript marker annotations of "J. Edw. McKinley" and "Passenger" along the top edge of the front wrapper. The script, printed on pink leaves, is preceded by a "Cast" and a "Sets" leaves. Laid in are two, two-page Shooting Call sheets, dating May 20 and 21, 1974. Based on and sequel to the 1969 hit "Airport," which was based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel "Airport." After a midair collision wipes out the crew of a Boeing 707, ground control must find a way to guide the disabled plane to safety. This midair disaster film inspired the 1980 parody "Airplane," directed by Jim Abrahams and David and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. Set in and shot on location in California, Utah, Washington DC, and Virginia. Orange titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated April 26, 1974. Title page present, noted as Final Shooting… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Archive of 63 vintage vernacular and professional photographs, along with a number of newspaper and program clippings, all relating to midget auto racing in Southern California, circa 1937-1938. All materials housed in a string-bound scrapbook, with captions in manuscript ink adjacent to most photographs. Of particular note in the archive are five photographs of African American "outlaw" racer Rajo Jack, the first driver to integrate into the all-white sport-nearly two decades before Jackie Robinson broke the "color barrier" in Major League baseball in 1947. Born Dewey Gatson in 1905, Jack would never have been able to compete on a national level in the American Automobile Association (AAA) due to his race, so he instead competed in the American Racing Association (ARA), the largest racing body to allow him to compete-making him an "outlaw" racer in the eyes of the AAA, and largely restricting him to West Coast racing. A continual target of discrimination, Jack would frequently… Read More

Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios, 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before, during, and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956, with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis, longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dean, a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner, began his association with Bryan in 1954, when the driver would score his first significant win, the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years. The 1955 album contains 12 photographs, capturing the moments before the 500, with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser, better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special, custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1961. Archive of 31 vintage photographs of the final General Motors Motorama auto show, likely taken for press or publicity purposes, in San Francisco, CA in 1961. Housed in a brown paper sleeve with a manuscript pencil annotation detailing the location and year. The GM Motorama originated as a small-scale auto show in 1949 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, under its original name, Transportation Unlimited Autorama. In the ensuing years the show grew in popularity, and, in 1953, began to travel around the country under the Motorama heading, now incorporating a themed musical spectacular and revolving stage displays. In its early years the Motorama served as a showcase for the company's newest innovations, including luxury prototypes and dreamlike concept vehicles with non-standard paint finishes or fiberglass bodies, although in the last few years of the show the majority of displays presented production cars which could be purchased straight from the showroom floor. The photographs… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Archive of 148 photographs of custom truck and tractor pulls, taken by amateur photographer Charles Lloyd Watson, circa 1978-1979. Many photographs with developer dates of 1978 and 1979 on the versos. A former racetrack photographer, Watson was a prolific amateur motorsports photographer from Jeffersonville, Indiana. Included in the archive are 142 standard color snapshot prints, five standard black-and-white snapshot prints, and one 8 x 10 color print. The photographs capture several indoor and outdoor events, and were likely taken in the Indiana area. Truck and tractor pulls became popular in the midwest and southern regions of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Pulls generally consisted of tractors in varying weight classes competing in towing a drag, which was either composed of dead weight or a group of people stepping onto a sled at fixed positions in order to increase resistance as the pull continued. The late 1970s would prove to be a seminal and transitional… Read More

Wrigley, TN: N.p., 1990. Archive of over 175 photographs relating to the Wrigley, Tennessee, chapter of the Rare Blood Motorcycle club, a predominantly African American motorcycle club, with at least nine other (largely African American) motorcycle clubs identified in the photographs. 175 photographs are housed in a generic maroon three-ring photograph album, with each photograph affixed to adhesive leaves with plastic overlays. Nine additional photographs are laid in, including an 8 x 12 enlargement of a photograph found in the album. Much of the archive documents gatherings at the group's clubhouse and offers an unfiltered and intimate look inside a southern working-class African American subculture. A handful of photographs include personal photographs of family and friends associated with the organization and the unknown compilers. Although documentation is sparse, the Rare Blood Motorcycle Club appears to have been founded in Franklin, Ohio, in the 1980's, with that chapter filing as a… Read More

New York: United States Rubber Company, 1950. Archive of fifteen vintage photographs of automobile tire testing by the US Rubber Company at the Lancaster, California proving grounds, circa 1950s. All with United States Rubber Company credit stamps and identification number stamps on the versos, and fourteen with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. The tires presented in the collection are noted as US Royal Air Ride Tires and US Royal Master Tires, with the test vehicles averaging 760 miles a day in the desert terrain of the Lancaster proving grounds. Tests depicted in the photographs appear to assess the tires' endurance against a number of roadway factors, including flint causing chipping, steel cones, and excessive mud, and tracks designed to test the tires' performance with skidding, zig-zagging, and driving over potholes. 8.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Archive of 133 vernacular photographs from an custom automotive upholstery shop, the "Auto Seat Cover Co.," located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, housed in acrylic photo sleeves in a photo album, circa 1961-1983. The vast majority of the photographs in the archive appear to be from the 1970s, and are predominately before and after photographs, and ornate custom automotive upholstery in acrylic, cloth, and leather, of contemporaneous vehicles as well as vehicles from the 1930s - 1950s. Also in the archive are six photographs of the company's trade show booth, circa late 1960s, four photographs of the interior of the business, circa early to mid 1960s, as well as five photographs of the flooding of the business, likely the Harrisburg flood of 1972, and three photographs of a home upholstery job, circa early 1970s. Five black and white photographs, which appear to be the earliest photographs in the archive, all have the date of "Nov 61' stamped onto the margin, and six photographs,… Read More

Tooele County, UT: N.p., 1963. Archive of 163 vernacular photographs, including 145 in color and 18 in black-and-white, capturing the 1960-1963 National Speed Trials (commonly known as Speed Week) at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Housed in 17 yellow envelopes, with dates and names of racers written in manuscript ink annotation to the rectos. Offered with the archive is a brand new set of the two-volume Bonneville National Speed Trials references, covering 1949-1958 and 1959-1968, respectively. The set is new and still in shrinkwrap. In the early 1960s, wealthy California car owners began to experiment with surplus jet engines to boost the horsepower of their cars, creating distinctive, bootlegged hotrods (referred to as jet cars or jets) designed specifically for the compacted salt surface of the flats. The photographs in the archive document many early iterations of these unusual (and profoundly dangerous) vehicles, with a particular focus on racers from Southern California, including Art… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Archive of eight vintage photographs documenting the harvesting, processing, packaging, and shipping of Sunkist Growers, Orland, California oranges, circa 1930s. Mimeo snipes on the versos of each, seven with a PIX Incorporated and Westport library stamps on the versos, and one with an American Photo Service stamp on the verso. One of the largest marketing cooperatives in the US, Sunkist Growers was formed in 1893, a time when citrus acreage had increased in California by more then ten fold, and today is one of California's largest land owners and the largest fresh produce shipper in the US, representing more than 6,000 members. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Archive of 32 vintage photographs documenting the October 20, 1970 collision of two trains along the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad line in Raytown, Missouri. Also included in the archive is a single broadside reward poster offering $5000 for information pertaining to the accident. According to a contemporary newspaper article which appeared in nearby Jackson County's Independence Examiner, the accident was believed to have been caused by juvenile vandalism to a nearby track switch. The collision and subsequent derailment resulted in the death of one engineer, whose partial body is visible in several photographs. The photographs in the archive range from close-up shots of the mangled train cars and tracks to distance views of the surrounding woods. Frequently displayed in the images is a small, handwritten police chalkboard noting the date, location, and case numbers. A vivid and interesting look at investigative photography and railway disasters in the late… Read More

Loudonville, OH: The Flxible Company, 1954. Archive of 22 vintage photographs of the Flxible Land Cruiser motorhome, circa 1954. Of the 22 photographs in the collection, 17 bear stamps on the versos, six bear annotations noting serial number and descriptions, and eleven bear stamps noting the serial number, model, and company. The collection includes one photograph of the exterior of the motorhome and 21 photographs of the very mid-century modern interior, frequently with models in various positions demonstrating the vehicle's comfort and luxury. Eight of the photographs note a serial number beginning with "B53" and one photograph notes a serial number beginning with "B54," likely indicating production in 1953 and 1954. Founded in 1913 in Loudonville, Ohio, Flxible was a manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars, funeral cars, ambulances, intercity coaches, and transit buses. In 1948 Flxible introduced its Land Cruiser model, a standard 29 passenger Clipper shell with an elaborately furnished interior,… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Archive of 12 vintage vernacular photographs of a tractor pull at the Boone County Fair in Indianapolis, circa 1964. Tractor pulls became popular in the Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s, and endure to this day. Pulls generally consisted of tractors in varying weight classes competing in towing a drag, which was either composed of dead weight or, as indicated in many of the photographs, a group of people stepping onto a sled at fixed positions in order to increase resistance as the pull continued. Farm equipment companies would often sponsor displays of their newest machines at the events, allowing farmers and their families a chance to examine the items up close and, during the pulls themselves, witness the machines' raw power. Included in the archive are several photographs of Carmel, IN dealership Riley Brothers' display of the Oliver 1800 tractor, released as part of Oliver's four-digit model series after the company's acquisition by White Motor Corporation in 1960.… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Archive of 20 vintage black-and-white photographs (along with one color photo) of Central Valley, CA stock car racer Don Darling, 1972-1974. Five photographs loose, the remainder tipped onto black card stock leaves with masking tape. Occasional manuscript ink annotations to the tape, identifying the years, as well as dirt tracks in Roseville and Maryville, CA. Included are images of Darling and others drivers in action, crashed or wrecked cars, many of which appear to be a decade or more older than the photographs, and posed shots of Darling or others with vehicles, including a signed portrait. Also including is a handwritten note listing the point totals for racers on Aug. 18, 1974, showing Darling solidly in sixth place out of a field of 16. Black-and-white photographs 10 x 8 inches, color photograph 5 x 3.5 inches. About Very Good.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Archive of 20 stunning oversized photographs of Buick auto dealerships in Minneapolis, MN, circa 1940s, all owned and operated by the W.R. Stephens Company. Each photograph mounted on board, with the stamp of photographer George Miles Ryan on the verso, and all but five with his name in manuscript pencil to the rectos of the boards, just below the lower right of each photograph. Photographs in the archive include images of the exteriors of three different dealerships, cars parked in lots, garages, showroom floors, service centers, interior spaces, including waiting areas, offices, a secretary pool, and employee cafeteria, occasionally with employees going about their day. Ryan worked primarily as a commercial photographer in the Minneapolis area, operating his own studio for roughly 40 years, and it seems likely these photographs were taken for use by the Stephens dealerships, either as artwork or for promotional material. Photographs roughly 13.5 x 10.5 inches, mounted to 16 x… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Archive of 46 vintage vernacular photographs of a model airliner in wind tunnel tests, circa 1967-1968. All photographs with an internal reference number, printed from the negative, on the lower right of the image. The photographs on offer are almost certainly internally-produced reference photographs taken during the development of Boeing's 747 airliner, and were likely taken at Boeing's Seattle wind tunnel model shop. Development of the world's first twin-aisle airliner, Boeing's 747, began in 1965 under the supervision of Malcolm T. Stamper, then head of Boeing's turbine division (and later Boeing's longest serving president). Engineer Joe Sutter, commonly known as "the father of the 747," headed the design team, and in 1966, aerospace manufacturer Pratt and Whitney developed the JT9D, the first high-bypass-ratio turbofan engine powerful enough for the wide-body airliner. The first 747 was rolled out of Boeing's custom-built Everett Plant on September 20, 1968, and on February… Read More

Alhambra, CA: Delta Associates, 1976. Large archive of original art, sketchbooks, illustrations, and advertising production materials, and a collection of catalogs, brochures, booklets, flyers, and magazines, all relating to the Southern California off-road motorcycle scene (and motorcycles in general) from Lynn Wineland and his "Delta Associates" design and advertising firm. A voluminous collection featuring dozens of pieces of production materials, art, and photographs, as well as over 50 pieces of printed motorcycle promotional materials of the period. The material in the archive dates from the late 1940s through the late 1970s, with the bulk from the late 1960s to mid 1970s, the peak of the SoCal off-road motorcycle scene. Complete details available on request, potentially interested buyers only please. Wineland's importance and influence on the West Coast hot rod and motorcycle scene is difficult to overstate. In the late 1930s, when Wineland was still a teenager, he built his first hot rod… Read More

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Archive of 59 photographs of automobile accident scenes or damage to vehicles in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, circa late 1930s through late 1940s. All photographs with manuscript annotations to the rectos or versos, or stamps on the verso, indicating their use in legal proceedings, and occasionally with dates or locations. Also included is a brown paper envelope with the stamp of photographer R. Werner and the District Court of Dakota County, MN regarding a hearing on May 16, 1939. Massachusetts became the first state to pass mandatory auto insurance laws in 1927, but it wouldn't be until 1956 that other states began to follow suit. However, the stamps indicate the photographs were used as evidence in civil cases, as several are stamped "plaintiff," rather than "prosecution." An interesting look at the early days of automotive liability actions, just before car ownership would skyrocket in America during the 1950s. Photographs variously sized, between 4.5 x 2.75 and 10 x… Read More

Portland, OR: N.p., 1935. Vintage leatherbound photograph album containing 30 photographs of Franz Bakery of Portland, Oregon, circa 1935. Photographs stamped by two local photography studios (Columbia Commercial Studio and Angelus Commercial Studio) on the versos. A comprehensive document of the daily operations of Franz Bakery, with many shots of both the bakery's exterior (with the company's then-slogan, "The Home of Butter-Nut-'The Bread Supreme,'" proudly displayed) and interior. The archive captures nearly every possible view of the industrial operation, including employee offices and canteen, storerooms, the company's fleet of Chevrolet delivery trucks and garage, and of course, the bakery itself. Franz Bakery is still in operation today, and is currently one of the largest bread and pastry manufacturers in the northwest United States. Photographs approximately 10 x 8 inches, housed in an album measuring 11.5 x 8 inches. Album and contents generally Near Fine, with the occasional hint of fading.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Archive of ten vintage photographs of a full-size clay car model, which appears to be a prototype of a mid-1970s second generation Pontiac Firebird. Two photographs with manuscript touch-up work to the images, all with annotations in manuscript pencil noting catalog numbers on the verso. The photographs in the archive do not explicitly identify the model, and the car's design has no precise match to any car in the Pontiac line, although the sporty front end and wrapped rear window bear a resemblance to the updated second-generation production model Trans Am in 1975. Just visible in the background of two of the photographs are several drawn designs for the car mounted on the wall. The Trans Am was a specialty package for the Firebird, which included upgrades to handling, suspension, and horsepower, and surface modifications such as unique hoods and spoilers, fog lights, and wheels. Four generations of the package were produced between 1969 and 2002. Eight photographs 8 x 10… Read More