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Washington Square Buses ... 1913

Gaso-electic Motor Omnibus

(motor designed by the General Electric Company,)

and De Dion Bolton Omnibus

 

-- Identified by jamica1 and Steve (Visual Photons)

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"solid tires, hand cranked, chain drive, rear ends along with carbide or acetylene lamps made this the high tech wonder of the teens ... looks like a trolley car put atop a wagon chassis"

 

-- bike-R (Geri)

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Photographer unknown

 

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Uploaded on March 8, 2019
Taken sometime in 1913