Iris-Automobile

12/08/2023

•1941 Packard 90 Eight-Door Open Top Tour Bus

19/05/2023

1936 Fordson 7V

20/04/2023

1934 McQuay Norris Streamliner

20/04/2023

1935 MERCEDES BENZ STREAMLINER . . .

09/04/2023

28/02/2023

It's , which means it's time to shine the spotlight on one of the streetcars in our collection: Pittsburgh Railways M1!

Originally built as a passenger car, M1 was converted to a traveling payroll car in 1890. It served the United Traction Company of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Railways Company while it was in service. M1 was actually the first car acquired for our museum, purchased by our founding members in 1949 (shortly after the cash payroll system was discontinued). It is one of the oldest electric cars in existence at any museum!

27/02/2023

27/02/2023

1948 Chrysler Town and Country Sedan

The first Chrysler Town and Country was a wood-bodied, barrel-back sedan in the 1941 six-cylinder Royal line. Neither sedan nor station wagon, it had a fastback profile with twin hinged “barn doors” at the rear. Exactly 999 were built, 200 of them in six-passenger configuration and the rest with three bench seats to hold nine people. A similar lineup was continued into 1942, with nearly identical production despite the war-shortened model year.

The response was such that an expanded range of five body styles was planned for 1946. In the end, only a conventional trunk-back sedan and an eight-cylinder convertible coupe were built. Just 100 long-wheelbase eight-cylinder sedans were built, the rest being six-cylinder cars on the shorter Windsor wheelbase. The new-design second-series 1949 line dropped the T&C sedan, and for 1950 the model retreated to an eight-cylinder hardtop coupe with painted insert panels. Thereafter, the name “Town and Country” graced a long succession of Chrysler steel-bodied station wagons and minivans.

Total Chrysler Town and Country sedan production for 1948 was limited with just 1,175 examples built. Most wood-bodied cars were lost long ago, and according to Town and Country authority Donald Narus, this car is one of only 41 known to survive.

27/02/2023

Ford Model A on lubrication rack at Lubeseal service garage, 1930.

23/02/2023

King St. facing east to Yonge St. in 1910 and 2023.

The Toronto Railway Company (TRCo) operated electric, open-sided bench streetcars from 1893 until 1915, when this style was outlawed on Toronto's streets. Having the loading side of the streetcar wide open was deemed too dangerous since the streets were becoming crowded with private automobiles.

You can ride a replica of TRCo open-bench streetcar #327 at the Halton County Radial Railway when the museum re-opens for the summer season.

1910 photo is from the Toronto Public Library's Archives.
2023 photo was taken by Trevor the Time-Traveler.

22/02/2023

🚘 NOW UP FOR AUCTION: Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider (Tipo 101) 👉 https://bit.ly/416jV41

Check out this stunning Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider in the iconic “Rosso Alfa” red! With only three owners in its 62-year history, this classic Italian sports car has been beautifully maintained and is reported to be entirely usable and reliable. This Spider version is a true gem and has been preserved in excellent and entirely original condition, truly belies its age. The car is understood to have spent its life in Italy, with a small archive of paperwork included, including a Certificate of Approval from Automotoclub Storico Italiano and Carta di Circolazione. Place your bid in the online auction now!

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22/02/2023

Camping out

18/02/2023

Cyclist from Tarvastu, Estonia, on a self-made wooden bicycle, 1912. (Photo by Johannes Pääsukes).

18/02/2023

1935 MERCEDES BENZ STREAM LINER

11/02/2023

London steam bus, circa 1900, (1947). Double-decker steam-powered bus, operated by the London Road Car Co, travelling between Hammersmith and Oxford Circus, with advertisements for Nestlé's Milk and Bovril. From "The Saturday Book", Seventh Year, edited by Leonard Russell. [Hutchinson, St. Albans, 1947] Artist Unknown. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

10/02/2023

Two ladies ride in an early car model, 1900.

07/02/2023

Mercedes-Benz W111 Cabriolet

06/02/2023

05/02/2023

VW Wolfsburg Factory in 1966
15 trains a day left the Wolfsburg factory for export to 130 countries