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Solved-WFM502 1936 Studebaker Helsinki Finland 1939
« on: May 11, 2014, 04:29:37 PM »
Make and year will do.
It can be found on GSBI but without details so  there is still some digging to do.

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Re: wfm502
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2014, 11:02:17 AM »
Moved it, did it wrong again.
Experts turn.
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2014, 04:13:07 PM »
Is it a Ford 'Y' Type?
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2014, 05:02:01 PM »
Ummm, no Y-type.

A Ford Y is about twice the size of the baby carriage in the front of the photo.

This one is a full sized truck/lorry.

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Re: wfm502
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2014, 06:06:15 PM »
What a rather upsetting, tragic looking scene.  :( :(
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2014, 05:27:20 AM »
Up to the Pros.

I hope the photo is not offensive.  The scene shows the truck and the baby carriage abandoned after an air raid warning.
Neither the truck driver nor the baby were hurt as they went to prepared cellar shelters.

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Re: wfm502
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2014, 07:26:24 AM »
Thanks, Bill. The photo isn't offensive, it's just a jarringly evocative photo-comment on what happens during a war.  It's the empty pram that says it all..
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2014, 07:49:16 AM »
Quote from: richard cuyler on May 25, 2014, 07:26:24 AM
Thanks, Bill. The photo isn't offensive, it's just a jarringly evocative photo-comment on what happens during a war.  It's the empty pram that says it all..

If this moves you, go see the inside of the church at Oradour-sur-Glane.  Nothing in there except for an empty baby carriage. It makes you think.
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2014, 09:11:39 AM »
Looks like a 1937 Studebaker? Was the picture taken during the Spanish Civil War?
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2014, 10:38:28 AM »
The correct year is 1936. Studebaker trucks of 1936 and 1937 were very similar.

I also now know where the picture was taken, it's Helsinki during the Winter War.
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Re: wfm502
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2014, 10:58:44 AM »
Absolutely correct Robbie!

I apologize for the selection of the photo, my primary interest being wheeled military vehicles 1935-1945 means a lot of my documents stuff is a little gory.  I should have thought about the pram.

At the same time, I thank Andy for the reference to Oradour-sur-Glane, something I was not aware of.  I just spent a half hour reading up on the story of the massacre.  While I enjoy my military soft skin hobby, I am no fan of warfare as such.  Sometimes we need to be reminded of the horror war entails.

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