Pat's PT Boat Ads
Misc., E-K
They make the paint-spraying equipment used by Elco...
E-L Electronic Labs
"Not here, Hirohito!"
Great picture showing "PT 38", which served with RON 2 in the South Pacific.
Yachting 11/43
Electronic power supplies, telephones...
Yachting 4/42
ESNA
"Gripping Tight on the Battling Cockleshells"
(WHAT did you call me?)
ESNA locknuts hold it all together.
Ethyl
Making av-gas possible
2/44
Everdur
Everdur is a copper-silicon alloy from American Brass, good for ship fittings.
Federal Mogul
Maker of props; this one tells the story of "Reckless Annie"
Yachting 4/45
Federal Mogul
That's the Prop!
A recurring theme in these ads- Good times to come when the war is over…
Federal Mogul
Now You're Cooking Sailor!
Idyllic scene, sailor fishing for dinner... I've heard that hand grenades were more likely to be used in this situation.
Drew Cook notes: "The propeller ad which shows sailors fishing off the port side of PT 117 is neat, but -- the real 117 never "lived" long enough to be fitted for the second-series radar mast as she is shown with in the ad's drawing. She was destroyed, along with PT 164, in the Japanese air raid on Rendova Harbor, Solomon Islands, on the afternoon of August 1, 1943 -- the same place (and day) from which PT 109 left on her final patrol. I'm sure the ad drawing was not meant to literally represent the real 117, but as I said -- trivia!"
Rudder/Yachting 9/45
Federal Mogul
"Comeback at Manila"
Props again
Rudder/Yachting 5/45
Federal Mogul
"Lane cutters for invasion"
Higgins props this time.
Federal Mogul
Mile-a-minute Dynamite!
Vospers use their props too.
Yachting 5/44
Federal Mogul
The yellow ad again, but this time with more on "Reckless Annie".
Yachting 5/45
Rudder 6/45
Federal Mogul
Tin-can Maulers! by Higgins
Rudder/Yachting 9/44
Federal Mogul
"In-Fighter"
Looks like PT-10
Yachting 6/42
Federal Mogul
"Power Play"
All three flavors of PT boats!
Rudder 10/42
Federal Mogul
"Battle Honors"
Rudder/Yachting 3/44
Federal Mogul
"Equi-Poise"
Rudder/Yachting 7/45
"Mickey Finns for Tojo!"
Tells of 30 attacking dive bombers- 4 shot down. Elco features the same story in their March 1944 ad. Artwork shows the unique shape of PT-9, which predated the Elco 70 and 77 footers.
Rudder/Yachting 7/44
Federal Mogul
"The Lady with a Punch!"
Mostly landing craft, but mentions PT's.
Now YOU can sail for fun again!
And if you can afford this boat, our props should be no problem!
Yachting 11/45
Propeller Punch for the Knockout!
DD launching depth charges, PT down below.
Rudder 2/44
An early Elco and some other neat applications
Yachting
In-Fighter!
"The Famous Swinging Doors"
Mostly landing craft, but there's a PT too.
6/44
1st Nat. Bank Chicago
PT's, banks… the connection is obvious (?)
Florida Grapefruit Juice
Forget the grog, pass me some juice…
PT-72 was a Higgins assigned to RON2 in the English Channel
BH&G 8/43
Foote Bros.
Gear maker to Sterling Engines, used in Vospers
Goodrich Rubber
Rubber hoses and engine mounts, modeled by the much unloved Huckins.
Rubber bearings for prop shafts. PT is Higgins' experimental Hellcat.
Early Elco
Yachting 6/44
Hagarty
Designers? Higgins
Rudder/Yachting 7/45
Harbor
Boat builder
I believe Harbor assembled knock-down Elco kits on the west coast.
11/43
Hamilton Watches
Keeping the fleet on time
Hammarlund
Variable condensers for those radios
44
Haskelite
Engineered plywood.
Shows PT-6, the Higgins protoype for the "plywood derbies"
Haskelite
Proven at Guadalcanal... in PT's and landing craft...
Haskelite
The navy's Hellcat
Higgins built PT564 in 1943, a 70' experimental craft that never went to production. See the Navy's info...
2 Wars: 2 Boats
Looks like they made a plywood canoe in WW1?
Hats off to the PT!
Corrosion free rigging
11/43
Trailer equipment and such, not sure just what they're advertising here... but there's one PT picture in the collage...
Herreshoff
Speed for Victory
Was Herreshoff building Vospers in the US?
"Today's Shadows... Tomorrow's Events"
Model of a futuristic PT
Herreshoff
That they may live to fly again
Not quite a PT, but great color image of an AAF rescue boat
Yachting 4/44
Patrolling at Dawn
A minesweeper by Herreshoff, not a PT, but a pretty picture anyway.
Yachting 2?/3?/45
Serving by Saving
Crash/rescue boat
Yachting 10/44
Torpedoes Away!
Yachting 11/44
Houdaille-Hershey
"Mongoose of the Sea"- shows PT-9, Scott-Paine's prototype from which Elco took the lines to build the 70 footers.
I can't read who or what H-H is…
Lethal Lady... on battle bent...
HUB makes hydraulic pumps, but they shouldn't write poetry...
11/43
Huckins
Only a few of these were built, never seeing anything more than routine patrols.
Huckins
"for Victory"
Huckins
These boats can take it!
and if you need a sweet little rum runner after the war...
Rudder 10/42
The postwar Fairform Flyer is not too far away!
Yachting
Hughes Tool
Drill bits designed for speed, just like the PT's!
Shows PT-32 in NY harbor, before shipping off for the Phillippines.
International Nickel... see also MONEL. Here they speak of metals used in the experimental PT6.
"We got the cruiser- the transport's all yours"
Elco 77's in the Philippines
Newsweek xx/42
Jacob
Another Vosper builder?
Jacob
Another Vosper builder?
Jefferson-Travis
2-way radios, used in tanks, planes, and 77 foot Elcos.
Yachting 6/42
Jefferson-Travis
Another J-T radio, another Elco 77
Kellogg's
Snap Krackle and Pop riding on PT-K
Kelvin-White
Spherical compasses in the new 77 foot Elcos
Yachting 1/42
Kidde
Fire suppression systems
Kidde
Sorry Gentlemen! Those fire extinguishing systems you planned on buying were sent away…to PT's around the world.
Yachting 1/42
Neat but inaccurate view from the bridge of an early Elco.
Ready for fire below decks
Fire extinguishing systems
1/43
Koppers
PT- Plenty Tough
Koppers makes all kinds of stuff, like the phenol in the glue in the plywood in the PT…