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' tento fugir para longe e a cada noite, como uma criança temendo pecados, punições de anjos vingadores com espadas flamejantes, prometo a mim mesmo nunca mais ouvir, nunca mais ter a ti tão mentirosamente próximo'
From The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Doble Steam Motors Corporation photograph collection
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
From The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Doble Steam Motors Corporation photograph collection
Manufactured by Ihagee Kamerawerk, Steenbergen & Co., Dresden, Germany
Model: c.1936, Ihagee Catalog no.2860,
produced between 1933-39,
all Ultrix series produced between 1922-39
Folder film camera, film 120 roll, picture sizes 6x9cm and 6x4.5 cm by a mask
Engravings on top of the camera and the camera leg: Ihagee
Note: The writing of Ihagee looks like Jhagee because it is written with an old German capital letter "I" which resembles a "J", pronounced Ihagee, and later changed with the new form of the "I" (in 1937?) info from: Old German Letters
Lens: Ihagee-Sol-Anastigmat 105mm f/4.5
Aperture: f/4.5 - f/32, no click stops, setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Focusing: manual helical focusing by a lever behind the lens-shutter barrel, guess the distance, scale on the lens standard
Focus range: 2.5-15m +inf
Shutter: Compur leaf shutter,
Manufacturer's logo engraved on front of the lens-shutter barrel: F.Deckel-München,
speeds: 1-1/250 no click stops, +T, B setting: ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel,
For time exposures the shutter need not to be set, use release lever only
Shutter cocking lever: on the lens-shutter barrel
Shutter release lever: on the lens-shutter barrel
Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel
Viewfinders:
1) Waist level Brilliant Finder on top of the lens, turning 90 degrees left on its own axis for landscape pictures
2) Eye level optical sports finder, folding, on the left side of the camera, w/ a sliding mask in the back frame for 6x9 and 6x4.5 (glasses were lost !)
Winding lever: folding, on the right side of the camera
Self timer button: on the lens-shutter barrel
Bellows: self erecting with the lens standard, opening button: on the right side of the camera, very rigid arrangement of struts, closing: press the handles on the struts
Flash PC socket: none
Back cover: Hinged, opens by a latch on top of the camera
Red windows: Two, for 6x9 and 6x4.5, w/ built in lids
Tripod sockets: old type 3/8'', Two, on the front cover and on the right side of the camera
Lugs for Leather hand grip
Serial no. 475062 (inside of the camera)
Body: metal, ribbed plastic covering and chromed trim, Weight: 550g
The known serial numbers for Zwei Format Ultrix 2860 are between 406720 - 591630.
Production years and serials data for estimating the manufacturing year of this camera is from Ihagee
Ihagee Kamerawerk is well known due to the famous Exacta cameras.
Before WW2 Ihagee produced a vast range of folding cameras with the name Ultrix.
Principal Ultrix models:
*Ultrix (1923) standard first model
*Ultrix-Duplex Nr.1560 (1924)
*Ultrix-Simplex (1924)
*Ultrix-Automat Nr.1250 (1925)
*Auto-Ultrix 6x9cm. Nr.2860 ( 1931)
*Auto-Ultrix mit Plattenrückwand Nr.3860 (1931)
*Auto-Ultrix 4x6.5cm Nr.2850 (1932)
*Zweiformat-Auto-Ultrix Nr.2860 (1933), same catalog Nr. with Auto-Ultrix 6x9cm
*Auto-Ultrix-Junior (1935) Simple version of Zweiformat-Auto-Ultrix Nr.2860
Too many varieties of lenses and shutters were used on Ultrix series. The shutters usually from Gauthier, like the Ibsor, Vario, Pronto and Prontor. The lenses labelled Ihagee Anastigmat. But Ihagee never made any lenses of their own, they were all bought from several lens makers. It is possible that the glasses may have been mounted by Ihagee.
Ihagee folders seem to have died with the WW2 and have been forgotten, even among Exakta collectors. more info: Peter's Ihagee page , Sylvain Halgand Collection
Sterling auto transport truck unloads brand new Ford Flexes for a car rental agency in San Diego, California.
Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.