Circa 1938 Los Angeles Mobil Gas Station with airplane

[Larry Kraus]

BDK,

I don't remember if I posted anything on this before,but I did get a couple of pictures from the Google Life picture site a while back,including the one that you posted here.My notes say that these pictures show: A gas station named "The Happy Landing" on Wilshire Blvd in L.A. in 1936

[bdk]

Interesting Larry! Looks like Life absorbed the photo into their site sometime later.

By using the search term "Wilshire" I was able to find the old thread:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=18783

Looks like this aircraft was discussed ad nauseum there, but this thread has added some new photos to the mix.

5524 Wilshire is the approximate address of the Art Deco building in the background of Larry's first photo.

[Rick65]

Dornier had a soft spot for the push pull engine layout as well, using it on seaplanes culminating in the beautiful and very svelte Do26.
A plane somewhat better looking than the Farman or the Fokker.
I guess the Do335 could be seen as the ultimate expression from Dornier, with the engines forming the ends of a fuselage rather than a nacelle.

[The Inspector]

...and culminating in the solution for everyones problems who wants a twin rating.the CESSNA pushmepullyou

[JDK]

All very interesting, but I was not thinking of the wide range of the relatively common twin engine push-pull, but as here, four engines mounted in two sets, on the struts of a high-wing monoplane layout, as in the two examples cited.

Anyone know of others that fit this description?