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The 2016 Concours d’Elegance of America at the Inn at St. John’s. Plymouth, Michigan. July 2016.
The Peerless Motor Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio built its first car in 1900. By 1910, the make ranked with Packard and Pierce-Arrow as one of the prestigious “Three P’s” of motordom. By the mid-1920’s though, Peerless had faded in the public perception. A redesigned range for 1929 resulted in a resurgence of sales, but the Great Depression soon torpedoed the automaker’s recovery efforts. Production ceased in 1932.
The seven-passenger Model 8-125 on exhibit was the “cream of the crop” among the 1929 Peerless models. Its 138-inch wheelbase was the longest ever for a production Peerless. A new inline 8-cylinder Continental engine and state-of-the-art 4-wheel hydraulic brakes were standard for this well-appointed luxury car. Very few 8-125s were ultimately made, and only three are known to exist today.
Believed to have been first delivered through the Lords dealership in Los Angeles, this Peerless was for a time the property of 20th Century Fox Studios, where it was featured in several gangster movies. By 1959, it belonged to the Movie Car Company, whose Hollywood client Desilu Productions often used it for their “Untouchables” television series. It was usually seen careening around a corner, full of bad guys with machine guns blazing.
The current owner acquired the car from Mr. Dexter Dotson, who at one time owned the world’s largest collection of Peerless automobiles. This rare car’s appearance here marks only its second public appearance since a comprehensive restoration was completed in early 2016.
Current owner: Daniel Johnson
Information provided on the Concours d’Elegance of America show placard.
The last revenue run up to Peerless Confectionary?
I received a call from Ken the engineer on the Chicago Terminal at the time tipping me a couple of days earlier off that the final run to Peerless would take place on February 1, 2007. Peerless announced it was shutting down January 12, 2007, with the last day of operation April 30, 2007. No new orders would be accepted after February 15, 2007.
This Chicago Terminal operation would involve retrieving an empty tank car and returning it to the North Avenue Yard. So I took the day off from work and brought with me a banner I made signifying the end of rail service on this northernmost section of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line.
And yes I was still shooting film back then with my trusty 35mm Canon camera.
Assisting Ken that day was John who was a conductor and a younger person whose name I do not recall.
Later I heard that one more run was made to Peerless before it shut down later that spring for good. Then in 2008 gondolas were stored on the Peerless spur after the factory was torn down as well as an excursion run by Chicago Terminal parent Iowa Pacific with the passenger car Caritas for Iowa Pacific customers.
If anyone has photos of a REVENUE run up to Peerless after February 1, 2007, I would be interested in seeing them posted.
I wrote an extensive history of the Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line in the book "The Milwaukee Road in Chicago" which was published by the Milwaukee Road Historical Association in 2007 if anyone is interested in knowing more. It goes into the Chicago Terminal era.
I received no money from the book and it sold out quickly but might be available on the secondary market. The MRHA is considering reprinting it and I have an update to go with it.
Tom Burke
7th june, peerless avenue
very important day - my sister's passport is back, with visa, meaning she & mark leave the country next week for however long they want!
i am wearing:
my alice in wonderland dress: ebay (there are details in comments of the buttons & pleats)
navy ballet flats: mum's. she got them in spain. she isn't getting them back, i love them.
Inner workings for a DR Brush Mower transmission. Last spring I had to replace the reverse chain and went ahead and refreshed things.
Had to remove it and split the case to fix an oil leak and an O-ring that failed
The last revenue run up to Peerless Confectionary?
I received a call from Ken the engineer on the Chicago Terminal at the time tipping me a couple of days earlier off that the final run to Peerless would take place on February 1, 2007. Peerless announced it was shutting down January 12, 2007, with the last day of operation April 30, 2007. No new orders would be accepted after February 15, 2007.
This Chicago Terminal operation would involve retrieving an empty tank car and returning it to the North Avenue Yard. So I took the day off from work and brought with me a banner I made signifying the end of rail service on this northernmost section of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line.
And yes I was still shooting film back then with my trusty 35mm Canon camera.
Assisting Ken that day was John who was a conductor and a younger person whose name I do not recall.
Later I heard that one more run was made to Peerless before it shut down later that spring for good. Then in 2008 gondolas were stored on the Peerless spur after the factory was torn down as well as an excursion run by Chicago Terminal parent Iowa Pacific with the passenger car Caritas for Iowa Pacific customers.
If anyone has photos of a REVENUE run up to Peerless after February 1, 2007, I would be interested in seeing them posted.
I wrote an extensive history of the Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line in the book "The Milwaukee Road in Chicago" which was published by the Milwaukee Road Historical Association in 2007 if anyone is interested in knowing more. It goes into the Chicago Terminal era.
Tom Burke
The Peerless Executive and President 8 transistor desk set radios appear to be the same radio, both using the DR-80 model number.
This idyllic scene would undergo radical changes in less than two years.
A few months later CP Rail would turn over operations to Iowa Pacific's Chicago Terminal subsidiary up to Peerless and other industries on former Milwaukee Road trackage.
Then the following spring in 2007 Peerless would shut down. A short time later both the former Continental Baking/Hostess building and the Peerless complex would be torn down.
4501 and the Summerville Daylight, now on C&C Trackage pass the Peerless Mill in Rossville.
-Southern 2-8-2 Mikado #4501
-Tennessee Valley Railway Museum "Summerville Daylight"
-Chattanooga & Chickamauga (CCKY) Southern Region, MP C444.20
-McFarland Ave Crossing, Rossville, GA
-October 7, 2023
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Peerless Rear Entrance Tonneau (1903) Engine 16 HP Two Cylinder
Registration Number AX 733
Country of Origin USA
20121London to Brighton Number 180
Body Rear Entrance Tonneau
Entrant Andrew Hayden
Pilote Reece Hayden
Established in Cleveland in 1900 at 43 Lisbon Street, Peerless Motors began manufacturing automobiles while using De Dion-Bouton engines under license from the French company. Engineer Louis P. Mooers designed the first Peerless models, as well as several proprietary engines. The first Peerless-branded vehicles appeared in 1902, with a front-mounted engine driving the rear wheels through a shaft.
From 1905 to 1907, Peerless experienced a rapid expansion and a move to increasingly higher-priced models with a focus on luxury. In 1911, Peerless was one of the first car companies to introduce electric lighting on their vehicles, with electric starters added in 1913 and their first V8 model in 1915. In 1929, the entire Peerless range was redesigned to compete at the top of the market with Stutz and Marmon, but the Great Depression of 1929 drastically reduced sales, in an effort to redress the situation the company assigned young designer Frank Hershey to craft an exclusive V16 model, but it was to little to late. The Peerless plant was mothballed, until the end of Prohibition in 1933 when it opened as a brewery under the Carling Black Label and Red Cap ale brands from the Brewing Corporation of Canada.
NOTE 1 - Not to be confused with the British Peerless built in Slough between 1957-60
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Shot 06.11.2021 Regents Street In that London in the South (London-Brighton weekend). Ref. 123-074
Cake from the Fannie Farmer Baking Book p.331
Swiss Meringue Butter Cream Frosting from www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBBoRMWcfNc
Strobist Info:
1 B800 behind subject1/4 power w/soft box through sheet
1 Vivitar 285HV 1/4 power shot through white umbrella camera right
White Foam Core for fill
This is one of the most incredible stories I have to tell as a car photographer:
I was taking pictures of a rusted-out 1963 Ford Thunderbird Convertible (which I'll post later) parked for sale at a closed-down repair shop during my family vacation to Maine. The owner was mowing his lawn right next door, and led me to the shop garage to show me something I've probably never seen before. After my parents almost had a heart attack because I was going into a stranger's garage, and my dad came along with me, he showed me this 1930 Peerless. I looked these cars up, and every single one built is incredibly desirable, and this car is a 1 of 1 as all Peerless cars were unique from one another. It was so unique that the owner told me he had to actually go and build all of the parts himself to restore it. Once I got really excited, he told me had I been there yesterday, there were about 12 more antique cars from the 1930s here as well.
Welp, that's my story on this car. Hope you guys enjoyed this.
The SW8 is backing down the spur to retrieve two empty cars left behind the prior week by CP. The overhead gantry above the freight cars was installed in later years by Peerless so workers could attach a safety harness when working to open the tops of the cars without falling off. The crew will runaround their train just past Wrightwood so the engine faces forward on the way back to the UP North Avenue Yard.
Chicago Terminal is no more as of 2019 and the last train to operate north of Clybourn was to retrieve gondolas parked on the former Peerless spur in 2009. Peerless itself went out of business in May of 2007.
Eighth and last in a series of screen grabs I will post from video I took on the first day of Chicago Terminal operations as it made its way from the UP North Avenue Yard where it was a tenant on its way to switch Finkl Steel and Peerless Confectionery. I was a guest of Ed Ellis for the first two days of operations to document it. I also wound up acting as a pilot for the crew as CP left behind no instructions.
Images are from converted from DVD format and cleaned up as much as possible in Photoshop. It was a dreary, overcast day with rain on and off again, and the SW8 engine in which we were riding was rocking back and forth which made taking videos a challenge.
If you want to see a video of mine that shows CP working this line go to-
studio.youtube.com/video/pQXSrwYdoQk/edit
Due to conversations in the cab that the crew probably didn't want being made public I am not going to share the full video of this trip plus I do not feel like taking the time to edit out the audio. Enjoy the still images instead from those first two days in this album.
Please go here to see more photographs of the Family Car -
www.flickr.com/photos/69559277@N04/sets/72157628124351754...
Produced from the original negative in my collection.
Peerless Hotel lobby
Ashland Oregon
Voigtlander Bessa II 6x9
Color-Skopar 105mm/f3.5
Kodak Portra 400 medium format
While a CP crew is working the Peerless spur in the distance a beer truck is working the local tavern on the corner. From looking at the most recent Google Streetview it looks like this tavern is boarded up and no longer much as Peerless closed in 2007.
With a light grey building, a light grey sky, and grey pavement there was not much contrast possible in these shots. The remnant of a track going to the right or west was for the Continental Baking (Hostess) plant which was torn down by 1985.
Rare plumage for CP with this former North Louisiana & Gulf MP15. It was the only time I caught this engine working the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. It's on its way to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery using street trackage.
Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 which ended revenue freight service on the C&E Line north of Clybourn by which time Chicago Terminal (CTM) had taken over operations of the C&E and Goose Island trackage from CP. In 2015 Big Bay Lumber on Goose Island closed which was the last CTM customer. CTM later conveyed rights to its ROW to the City of Chicago and abandoned what was left of its Chicago property in 2018.
Former Fort Wayne Transfer Company/Peerless Cleaners at Main & Fulton Streets. It wasn’t the most attractive building, in fact, the one vent on the side gave it the look of a miserable one-horned beast. Still, I will miss photographing the old warehouse windows and rusted fans; my favorite door (the teal one that occasionally pops up in senior pictures) and the super long icicles overlooking the alley.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
2.5.2013
Heading north on street trackage on Lakewood Avenue.
Chicago Terminal is no more as of 2019 and the last train to operate north of Clybourn was to retrieve gondolas parked on the former Peerless spur in 2009. Peerless itself went out of business in May of 2007.
Eighth and last in a series of screen grabs I will post from video I took on the first day of Chicago Terminal operations as it made its way from the UP North Avenue Yard where it was a tenant on its way to switch Finkl Steel and Peerless Confectionery. I was a guest of Ed Ellis for the first two days of operations to document it. I also wound up acting as a pilot for the crew as CP left behind no instructions.
Images are from converted from DVD format and cleaned up as much as possible in Photoshop. It was a dreary, overcast day with rain on and off again, and the SW8 engine in which we were riding was rocking back and forth which made taking videos a challenge.
If you want to see a video of mine that shows CP working this line go to-
studio.youtube.com/video/pQXSrwYdoQk/edit
Due to conversations in the cab that the crew probably didn't want being made public I am not going to share the full video of this trip plus I do not feel like taking the time to edit out the audio. Enjoy the still images instead from those first two days in this album.
Period publicity for the 1958 London Motor Show at Earl's Court.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peerless_(UK_car)