Re: [CR]Pic of the Day - Publicity Vehicles

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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 05:43:20 -0700
To: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Pic of the Day - Publicity Vehicles
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>Pic of the Day
>8 August 2006
>
>Waterman Publicity Vehicles - 1950
>
>http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=160036
>
>Waterman publicity truck and "ink-bottle" from the caravan of the 1950
>Tour de France (See also "Waterman Publicity Vehicles 1949). From
>"Miroir Sprint" No.217, 7 August 1950.

Great photos, Aldo. How did the driver of the little car see the road? A periscope?

A minor note: The accepted English term "publicity caravan" is based on a mistranslation. The French term "publicite" means "advertising." So correctly, the publicity caravan is the "advertising caravan." And that makes more sense.

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