Tractor plane
Grab
Description
Early tractor airplane (pulled through air by propeller) on lawn at Maximotor factory. Billboards behind plane. Written on side of plane: "Verville Perry." Written on tail: "Detroit, USA." Written on side of building: "1526 Maximotor 1546." Handwritten on mat back: "My first active interest in aviaton, September 1914. Worked after school hours at Maximotor works for nothing. Picture should an experimental tractor that Max Dingfielder [sic - s/b Dingfelder] let us build. There, also, the front of the Maximotor plant on Jefferson Ave. From the Corwin Van Husan scrapbook."
Details
- Resource ID:
- DPA1772
- Subject:
- Biplanes--Michigan--Detroit
- Antique and classic aircraft--Michigan--Detroit
- Albumen prints
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1914-09
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on stock ; image 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- D/Airplanes
- Content Note:
- Another view of same plane and place in DPA1771
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.