McLaughlin Carriage Company: then and... later then

[siberian-cat.livejournal.com]

The McLaughlin Carriage Company was the largest carriage maker in Canada. The business was thriving, and even the emerging "horseless carriage" craze could not shake it. In this 1905 ad, an elegant McLaughlin buggy triumphs over the fallen contraption.




...And in just three years the McLaughlin family starts to produce motorcars. It's hard to kick against the pricks!



In 1918, the company was acquired by General Motors. The Oshawa GM plants are the largest automobile producers in Canada.

(The pictures are scanned from The Canadian Look by Ken Lefolii, 1965)

Comments

[nyxalinth.livejournal.com]

D'oh, the pictures don't show up for me!

[misstia]

you know what? they didn't show up for me either when i approved this entry but 1) i was happy i could FINALLY approve this entry in the queue and 2) sometimes pix don't show for me in LJ and i figured that was the issue.....

i wonder if anyone can see the pix?

[phoenixi77.livejournal.com]

no pics seen

[misstia]

okay, thank you!!!

hopefully the poster can fix the problem with the code-----check the code, there's probably a glitch with it!

[misstia]

yep, the border is set to "1"!!!! if you go into 'edit entry' and remove that, the border="1", then pix should show, if the pix then becomes HUGE and you don't know html, i can help you!!!

[siberian-cat.livejournal.com]

The border is just a rectangle around the picture, it is a standard HTML parameter, has always worked for me. Ok, I will try to remove it.

[misstia]

oh, okay.....well, for some reason the pix aren't showing....oh wait!!!!! LJ is having scrapbook problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and do the pictures show for you?

[siberian-cat.livejournal.com]

Yes, absolutely. I have hosted them in my own space, not in the scrapbook. Never had any problems with it.

[siberian-cat.livejournal.com]

Maybe we just kill it?

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Looks good from here (almost 8 pm Eastern US time).

[wrascalism.livejournal.com]

In Canada, the cars were known as McLaughlin-Buick until 1942. After the war, just Buick.

[mackinzie.livejournal.com]

Can't see pictures either. :(

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

So sticking with old technology even way back then. Sort of reminds me of Apple fans sticking to the iPhone even with all the vastly superior phones available today. My brother still has vacuum tube amplifiers for his music because the output is so much "richer" than solid state amplifiers? funny how this stuff becomes almost religious....even horse and carriage!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of some pretentious Cadillac radio ads from the 1990s just as SUVs were becoming popular and Lincoln had just come out with the Navigator. In the ad, a woman (it might have been Lauren Hutton doing the v.o.) says something like "since when are 'luxury' and 'truck' synonymous?" I think Cadillac came out with the Escalade about a year later.