Advertising Cars

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Robertson Aircraft was a predecessor/underlier of American Airlines.  (This,
I'm afraid, is my REAL hobby!)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of
brathke at juno.com
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:35 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Cc: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: Re: Advertising Cars


You're right.  I guees I've got root beer on my mind.

Bob 7/17

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:58:26 -0400 "Edward H. Lybarger"
<twg at pulsenet.com> writes:
> Mohawk Airlines was originally Robinson Airlines.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> [mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> brathke at juno.com
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 9:33 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: Re: Advertising Cars
>
>
> I took some photos of the Hillside Dodge car on the 85 line, and
> believe
> it also ran in the South Hills.  Most of the ad cars ran on 22, but
> in
> the early 60s they started to appear on other lines, possbily at the
> request of the advertiser, especially if the advertised company was
> on or
> near those lines.
>
> The 1964 Chrysler car was often on the 2nd Avenue lines.   In 1963,
> the
> Ivory Towers car ran on 8-Perrysville.  Ivory Towers was the name of
> a
> home subdivision just across U.S. Route 19, south of Keating
> carbarn, and
> the car's paint job read, "This car to Ivory Towers."
>
> I have a photo of the Mohawk Airlines car on 21-Fineview, but it
> might
> have been a fantrip.  Mohawk Airlines (originally called Richardson
> Airlines) merged into Allegheny Airlines (originally called All
> American
> Airlines), and is US Airways today.  There's a photo of this car on
> page
> 12 in Harold Smith's book, but the caption gives incorrect color
> information - the car was actually painted metallic gold and gloss
> black
> (not blue).
>
> Bob 7/17
>
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>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:44:54 +0000 Kenneth and Tracie Josephson
> <kjosephson at sprintmail.com> writes:
> >
> > I just sealed an envelope with some images for Jim Holland. One of
>
> > them shows
> > the 1400 painted for Hillside Dodge. The car is clearly signed for
>
> > Route 55.
> > I keep hearing these cars were restricted to Route 22. So did
> > advertising
> > cars ever get assigned to other routes (besides the car
> advertising
> > the
> > subdivision as shown in the "Touring" book?)
> >
> > I will be away from my computer and e-mail from July 18th through
> > the 26th.
> > Ken J.
> >
>
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