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09-22-2021, 06:40 PM | #21 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
Have you tried the city library or newspaper?
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These were the 'Black Marias', so named after Maria Lee, a giant Boston Negress whose size and strength was such that when the constables required assistance it was common to send for Maria, who quickly dealt with the trouble makers and marched them off to the lock
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09-24-2021, 01:10 AM | #27 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
To quote a popular Youtube site: "Well, I'll be dipped!" I wonder though, if the radios mentioned in this 1931 bulletin were actually two way. All the references I found said the first two way radios date to March of 1933, in a city in New Jersey. Starting sometime in the'20's though, some police departments were installing AM radios that were just receivers, or one way radios. Thus headquarters could contact the cars and send them where needed.
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09-24-2021, 01:13 AM | #28 |
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Looks to me like someone didn't want a mundane vehicle like a mail truck so they turned it into a police vehicle.
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09-24-2021, 08:57 AM | #29 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
Here are some police cars:
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09-27-2021, 09:19 AM | #30 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
Here’s picture of a CPD squad on patrol. Same vehicles that WTSHNN has posted here, 1929 Phaetons. Maybe they were checking on Al’s tax filings!
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10-03-2021, 09:50 PM | #31 |
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10-04-2021, 02:49 AM | #32 |
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Dozens of Model A Ford Roadster Police Vehicles. |
05-24-2022, 03:02 PM | #33 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
As many have indicated, police vehicles of that era were plainly marked......Detroit PD for instance had plain lettering on the doors to indicate it was a police vehicle.
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05-24-2022, 03:11 PM | #34 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
This photo came off of FordBarn a few years back. The man is wearing a badge so I guess you can consider this a police car even though there are no markings.
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05-25-2022, 01:39 AM | #35 |
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Re: Model A police car pictures needed
As is been said there's no hard and fast rules. However, I retired after 23 years of Law Enforcement. The Star, at least down here in Texas, usually indicates a Sheriff's Department, where the Badge is typically for Police Departments. Up north is a whole different ballgame.
The local police department had a simple one block word "POLICE " on the door of their vehicles until the 80s. Also just a red spotlight on many units into the 80s in rural areas. As to age, I've driven patrol units well over 10 years old. What I've read indicates many Departments still had model T vehicles during the Bonnie and Clyde days, 33 and 34. The Texas Highway Patrol used one way radios into the 1960s. An old friend said you carried a roll of dimes and when called and told to call the station you drove until you found a house with a phone line, then asked to use the phone. The dimes were for reimbursement. The department I spent the most time with had a framed paper chart in the patrol office indicating speed by using a stop watch and timing the vehicle travel thru an intersection. I wish I'd taken a picture. Last edited by ETAModel; 05-25-2022 at 01:52 AM. |
05-25-2022, 07:52 AM | #36 |
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Hello, some what newer 1933 , but the sheriffs car that John Dillinger stole , and has been restored, is a 1933 Ford standard sedan. It has no markings on the doors indicating it is a police car, however it does have a spotlight and a red light mounted on left front bumper bracket. I tried to copy a picture but could not.
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05-25-2022, 08:50 AM | #37 |
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Almost all of them have Police on the hood. I agree, the coupe has a nice simple look, probably pretty close to what was the norm at the time.
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05-25-2022, 10:45 PM | #38 |
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Here is an interesting photo of the inside of 1931 Ford Model A Tudor, Detroit Michigan, police car, where you can see the location of the radio, the radio controls, the speaker and the rifle:
......and also from the Detroit PD, here is a slightly different radio configuration (with radio components under the rear floorboards): Both are excerpts from the Dutch "Ford Werld" magazine featuring US Ford Model A police vehicles. Brad in Maryland |
05-29-2022, 08:41 AM | #39 |
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