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A Loop in Time

            Viewers of the work we do at one24thscale may have noticed, we have a fascination with the idea of time travel.

How fortunate that we discovered a Loop in Time centered on The Denver Firefighters Museum, downtown. We have been wanting to try our hand at seeing one location through the passage of time for a while.

Here, we see the building about 1915 or 1916. A transition has occurred in the seven years or so since the firehouse was built in 1909. The windows that flank the doors are where the horse stalls were. Horses were kept in these stalls, harnessed up, ready to be hitched to a steam fire pumper or ladder truck at a moment's notice.

J. Walter Christie came up with a great idea to help cities ease into the conversion to fire equipment with gasoline engines. He designed a front wheel drive tractor to replace the horses. It connected where the front wheels of the wagon had been while keeping the expensive boiler and pump, ensuring cities enjoyed a few more years of service out of the apparatus before they went to engines powered entirely by petrol.

Christie was, more or less, the father of front wheel drive. He built a race car that competed well with Ford, until Henry Ford hired Christie's driver, Barney Oldfield.

Mr. Christie also designed a revolutionary suspension for tanks that played a large part in the success of Soviet WWII tanks like the T-34.

Enter the vortex of time if you dare. Consider yourself warned!  The one24thscale team was lucky to escape the loop and we are professionals.

This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model vehicles in front of a real background. 

Franklin Mint 1912 Christie Front Drive (1/24 scale)

Franklin mint 1910 Cadillac Model 30 Roadster (1/24 scale)

Liberty Classics 1910 Maytag Model F (1/25th scale)

Yat Ming, Road Signature series 1914 Ford Model T Fire Engine (1/18 scale)

Taken on: August 11, 2019

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