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Fuller Dymaxion

Looks like the Dymaxion three vehicle prototype near a Roosevelt Field hangar in
1933; either in August or October.

The Dymaxion car by Buckminster Fuller.
Site could be Bridgeport, 1933. Maybe.
Can’t identify plane.

That’s R. Buckminster Fuller’s DYMAXION #1. Photo may have been taken on August 11, 1933 at Roosevelt Field. No clue on the plane.

Identify the automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1
Identify the airplane:  I know I’ve seen this before, but came name it (or find it).  Might be hanging at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.  Similar military aircraft called the Walrus. 
Where was the photo taken and in what year?  Roosevelt Field, 1933 at the National Charity Air Pageant.

Identify the automobile
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion

Identify the airplane
Unsure-For a guess, I’ll say it’s a Curtiss since they were an airfield neighbor on Clinton Rd.

Where was the photo taken and in what year?
Roosevelt Field in 1933

Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller’s prototype Dymaxion car ca. 1933 at Roosevelt Field.  What is of especial interest to us LIMPers is that the Dymaxion Corporation’s factory was in the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building at Tongue Pointe in Bridgeport, CT.  The amphibian appears to be a Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior (several survive, incl. at the Smithsonian’s NASM).  It’s hard to tell at such low res. but that seems to be Fuller at right, pointing.  Sam, III

The ” car ” is a Dymaxion probably around 1934,35 the pusher plane I’m guessing was made by Grumman but don’t know what they called it.

Possibly Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion #1 three-wheeler in Bridgeport, CT, July 12, 1933. Flyer “Al” Williams standing in front of vehicle with lighter slacks would eventually purchase the vehicle. An amphibian plane but dunno what it is.
http://www.vintag.es/2016/08/buckminster-fuller-and-dymaxion-car.html

From Gary Hammond:

Here’s Hammond’s Historical Happenings for Mystery Photo # 35:

Automobile: Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Car #1 – 3 were built (only one still survives); at Roosevelt Field (note old Curtiss Field hangers in background), 1933; Buckminster Fuller on right pointing; possibly the man he was talking to was pilot Frank T. Coffyn ((1878-1960) who drove the car on August 10, 1933 (see photo); license plate: red with white lettering “FV 453 CONN. 1933”.
The Dymaxion Corporation factory was located at the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building, Tongue Pointe, Bridgeport, CT.  Building markings: “4D / DYMAXION” (see photo)

This photo is probably from August 10, 1933 when the car was given test runs on the runways at Roosevelt Field, supposedly reaching more than 90 mph. (see Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 11, 1933, p. 6) The car again visited the Field when it was exhibited at the National Charity Air Pageant, held at Roosevelt Field, Saturday & Sunday, October 7-8, 1933. (see copy of ticket)

Aircraft: The P-3B Privateer amphibian, built by Amphibions, Inc. in 1933, with a 210 h.p. seven-cylinder Continental R-670 pusher engine, which was pylon-mounted above cockpit. Registration # NC13252.  Notice the Amphibions logo on the a/c. (see photo)
The company was originally called Ireland Aircraft Inc., and located at Curtiss Field, Garden City NY.  In 1931 it was reorganized as Amphibions Inc., at Roosevelt Field, Garden City, NY.

Hammond’s Bonus question: Did you know that an important Fuller design resides in Nassau County?  In 1936 Fuller designed a Dymaxion Bathroom for his friend Christopher Morley, for his writing studio “The Knothole”, in Roslyn, where it still resides!

From Aldo Zana:

About the mystery car it’s the Dymaxion , the 1933 concept car by Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) built for the Chicago World Fair 1933.It was totally unstable and underpowered, but the shape was a real revolution.

Oopsies - scrambled captions - nobody has his hand on the car in the third image; Williams does in the fourth.  HA - I had completely forgotten about the Privateer.  Thanks, Howard.  Sam, III