Friday, August 06, 2010
Future seen from the past
Ran into this strange scene in a site with old Toronto-area pictures.
Horses were still quite common in dairy service until 1950, but there's a jarring dissonance here.
Horse-drawn streamliners???!!!!
Nonsense from an aerodynamic viewpoint, because a dairy horse never goes faster than walking speed. (Streamlining makes no real difference below 30 MPH.)
Yet it was apparently worth the expense in terms of esthetics and advertising, because streamlining was the latest thing in 1940.
These cute buglike buggies look peculiarly modern, and wouldn't be out of place on a modern street. ¶ 2:54 PM
Horses were still quite common in dairy service until 1950, but there's a jarring dissonance here.
Horse-drawn streamliners???!!!!
Nonsense from an aerodynamic viewpoint, because a dairy horse never goes faster than walking speed. (Streamlining makes no real difference below 30 MPH.)
Yet it was apparently worth the expense in terms of esthetics and advertising, because streamlining was the latest thing in 1940.
These cute buglike buggies look peculiarly modern, and wouldn't be out of place on a modern street. ¶ 2:54 PM
