The Fokker F.32 at the Los Angeles gas station had electrically driven pusher propellers, probably dummies. Photo by: Alfred Eisenstaedt / Life

Briefly operated by Western Air Express, this Fokker F.32 eventually found a satisfied owner - Bob Spencer whose Air Mail Service Station in Los Angeles reportedly thrived. It was on the northwest corner of the intersection, then at 5453, today 5455 Wilshire Boulevard. The plane served at the gas station for about five years and was scrapped late in 1939. Photo from: California State Archives

The Rocky Mountains dwarfing the large Fokker F.32 during a 'New York to Hollywood' flight - Anthony Fokker made some fanfare around the delivery of two F.32s for WAE. A dance troupe was carried - NC333N wore different 'Fox-Fanchon & Marco Flying House Party' titles. These were the only two F.32 airframes to see airline service, and then only briefly. Not only did the Depression kick in, the type was badly underpowered even if the two pusher engines weren't overheating. Photo from: Pikes Peak Library District

First flown on 13 September 1929, the prototype of the large Fokker F.32 was painted in Universal Air Lines colours but UAL cancelled its order. The aircraft crashed during a demonstration of a three-engined takeoff barely two months later. Photo from: Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Starting its engines while parked near Oakland's Hangar No.1 and Hangar No.2. Registration is uncertain. Must be either NC333N or NC334N, and the former reg appears to show on the fin. Photographer unknown.