Riot Car Shoots Water, Bullets or Poison Gas (May, 1938)
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Source: Mechanics And Handicraft ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1938
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Source: Mechanics And Handicraft ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1938
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Riot Car Shoots Water, Bullets or Poison Gas
ON the cover of the current issue appears our artist’s conception of a riot car just patented by Victorino L. Tunaya, of Brooklyn, New York. This vehicle is provided with a number of discharge nozzles through which powerful streams of water or liquid gas can be projected on rioting groups of persons. In event of very serious trouble, machine guns may be mounted in the turrets instead of hose nozzles to deal with rioters with greater finality. Two
huge tanks contain the liquid, which is driven through the nozzles by a pump.
this futuristic car is very similar to the illustrations found in this russian children’s book I adore – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neznaika – although the design sensibility of 1938 was still in full swing in Russia of 1954…
Comment by ANI — September 14, 2007 @ 6:12 am
It’s the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle!
Comment by ajpress — September 14, 2007 @ 10:40 am
What won’t the criminal element of Metropolis think of next!
Comment by Sorcerer Mickey — September 14, 2007 @ 2:03 pm
It’s the Herkimer battle jitney!
Comment by jayessell — September 14, 2007 @ 3:02 pm
A photo of the Herkimer Battle Jitney!
http://wheeledarmoredvehicles......3322c4111b
Comment by jayessell — September 14, 2007 @ 4:29 pm
Wow, interesting how small the thugs operating the machine guns are compared to the enormous union organizers (oops I mean “rioters”) they are squirting with water or poison gas from the high-precision nozzles. Wait a minute… poison gas?!?
Comment by Village Idiot — September 15, 2007 @ 3:02 am
Now if we could just get rid of the humans operating the weapons and replaced them with robots…
Comment by Stannous — September 15, 2007 @ 6:36 pm
Original patent may be found at http://www.google.com/patents?.....ino+Tunaya
Interesting what “Village Idiot” made of a line drawing. The guys in the turrets are “thugs” and the guys in the street become “union organizers”? Ahhh Idiots, no wonder every village wants one.
Comment by Firebrand38 — September 19, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
Um, when one group of people is attacking another, it’s usually the thugs who have the weapons. I’ve never heard anyone say “Aw, look at those thugs getting chased and beaten by an unarmed mob.” When this was published, union organizing, and especially members of the I.W.W., were often targeted with violence, so the scenario is very plausible, but most Americans don’t know much about our own history, nor care. Nowadays it’s the thugs vs. anti-WTO ‘rioters,’ so not much has changed.
What’s also interesting is how seriously a firebrand takes an offhand comment about a ridiculous concept. And it’s the village who decides who their idiot is, normally choosing the one who seems a little too different. In a village of firebrands, which mine seems to be, the title is an honor.
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