Super Dome Train Car Cutaway, 1952
Sightseeing “dome” rail cars were not new in 1952, but to this point these VistaDomes, as they were called, had extended only […]
Category: 1950s
Cutaways from the 1950s (1950 to 1959).
Two Story Trailer Cutway, 1952
From the magazine, we’re told that this trailer, from Holan Engineering from Elwood, Indiana, has two stories and an attic, a plastic-tiled […]
Idlewild (JFK) Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, 1952
Originally called Idlewild Airport, it was renamed JFK Airport in 1963, after the President’s assassination. This workman-like, competent but hardly spectacular cutaway […]
Mercury Moll: Mrs. Linda Plannette
We’re barely out of the 1940s–1952, to be exact–and this lovely lady is presaging the Sixties already by wearing cut-off jeans shorts, […]
Turtle Personal Tank, 1952
As far as I know, this one-man tank never left the mind of Les G. Scherer. Scherer designed this personal-sized tank to […]
Atomic-Powered Heating System for Building, 1952
This was real, not Fifties fantasy: a building heated by atomic energy. Appropriately enough, the building, located in Harwell, England, was the […]
Hal B. Hayes House, Hollywood California, 1953
Though I’ve lately dedicated this site to cutaway drawings from the golden age of illustration art–1930s to 1960s–certain things come along that […]
Winchester .22 Model 52 Rifle Trigger Mechanism Cutaway, 1951
Even a .22 rifle has a complicated trigger mechanism. This one, a Winchester Model 52 from 1951, is timeless. You’ll find essentially […]
Hand Grenade Cutaway Drawing, 1951
Despite its fearsome reputation in TV and movies, a hand grenade is a fairly simple and imprecise killing device: a metal container that […]
Colt .45 Automatic Pistol Cutaway, 1951
This cutaway of the classic Colt .45 Automatic was part of Popular Science’s “Know Your Weapons” series that started up in 1951. […]