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Freeze frame airflow mysteries! (UPDATE II: 1932 Martin Aerodynamic + 1932 Martin Autoette)

The other night we were watching a documentary on local tv. It was about the round-the-world trip of the airship ‘Graf Zeppelin’ that in 1929 went from New York to New York via Germany, Siberia, Japan and Los Angeles. But what really interested us was this minute shot of two cars driving a New York street. Perhaps the shot was included in the documentary to add some ‘couleur locale’. Both cars look very advanced for 1929, especially the streamliner. The three-wheeler looks very much like the forefather of the BMW Isetta. They are clearly parading in front of the movie camera, but we have no idea what they are. So we took a picture of the tv-screen, hoping that you can tell us what they are and perhaps even know the occasion of this scene?

(photo taken from Dutch TV Documentary by NTR, click here for the program)

UPDATE by Kit Foster: "Left: 1928 Martin Aerodynamic
and right 1932 Martin Martinette.

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woensdag december 1st, 2010
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11 Januari 2011, 16:40
This film was made on January 22, 1932, in New York City's Central Park in conjunction with the 1932 New York Auto Show. The cars were conceived by Captain James Vernon Martin and were actually his fifth and sixth in a long series of prototypes he had constructed using rubber aviation cord suspension. The larger car is correctly called the 1932 Martin Aerodynamic Auto (often misidentified as a 1928), and the smaller is the 1932 Martin Aerodynamic Autoette. They were built in 1931 by the Lee Tobin Company of New York for the Martin Aeroplane Factory of Garden City, New York. Both were unveiled at the 1932 show. The Autoette concept was revived by Martin as the woody-bodied Stationette in the 1950s. For extensive coverage of all of Martin's cars, read "Orphan Babies: America's Forgotten Economy Cars". Details can be found at www.orphanbabycars.com.
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02 December 2010, 02:56
The 2 cars are a Martin Aerodynamic (One on the left) and a Martin Stationette.
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02 December 2010, 02:03
And here's what I think the second car is, though I admit there are significant differences.

http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/martin-stationette-1950
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02 December 2010, 01:57
The two-tone car is a 1928 Martin.

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/cobra1899/pauls_journey/1201312680/1928-martin-aerodynamic-car.jpg/tpod.html

Gimme a few minutes on the other one. I've seen it somewhere.

Greg
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01 December 2010, 23:49
More on Martin:

http://earlyaviators.com/emartja2.htm
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01 December 2010, 23:47
The cars are (left) the 1928 Martin Aerodynamic

http://www.kitfoster.com/images/2008-4-9_MartinAeroWeb-Large.jpg

and (right) 1932 Martin Martinette,

http://www.kitfoster.com/images/2008-4-9_Stationette&MartinetteWeb-Large.jpg

brainchildren of aviation pioneer James V. Martin. The cars (and Martin's 1950 Stationette) were at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2008. I'm not sure what they were doing in the film in question.
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