1964 Ducati Falcon

Ford tractor demonstration, 1937

Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson liked to use children to demonstrate their tractor and three point hitch. In a day when ploughing required a team of horses and considerable skill, an 8 year old child on a small grey tractor made a large impact when they outperformed that combination.

Demonstrating a Ford tractor

Richard Howard, Jacques Lacoursière & Claude Bouchard.  A New History of Canada.
10.  A Time of Shocks.  1926-1939.  Montréal:  Éditions Format, 1973.

Pat Mahoney: King of Brands

Above, from Scoop Sports Annual 1982.  (London, England:  D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.)

In 1970, Mahoney partnered with Barry Sheene on a Gus Kuhn Norton for the Barcelona 24 hour race. In April he was crowned King of Brands after successfully competing in 3 classes:  250cc (TDIC Murphy Yamaha);  350cc (AJS Gus Kuhn 7R) and Unlimited (750CC Gus Kuhn Norton).

Tragically, he never fully recovered either mentally or physically from his injuries sustained in the 1975 spill at Brands Hatch.  He passed away in 2006.

Stevedore for hire, Philadelphia

 

Copy of a business card from 1880, taken from the book Novascotiaman by Clement W. Crowell.

Published in 1979 by the Nova Scotia Museum, this is the story of the barque N.B. Lewis from 1880 to 1893 as compiled from a large collection of correspondence and ships papers found in the attic of Captain Frank Gullison of Beaver River, Nova Scotia. 

 

Craig Vetter and his Mystery Ship

Fujio Yoshimura and Craig Vetter pose with the Kawasaki-powered Mystery Ship, Vetter's first bike since the Triumph Hurricane of the early seventies. It was a intended to be 200 unit limited production run, only 10 were made of which 7 were sold. Two are on display, one at the AMA Museum in Ohio, another at the Barber Museum in Alabama. 

Modern Gatling Gun

Chant, Christopher.  Aircraft Armaments Recognition.
London: Ian Allan Ltd., 1989.

"You looking at me?"

Another job you wouldn't want to do: Testing vinyl records

David Chatterton (Editor).  The Mind Alive Encyclopedia.  Technology.  Chartwell Books, 1977.

Experimental flying tank

Lt Col. Robert J. Icks, Tanks and Armoured Vehicles.  Phillip Andrews Pub. 1945

Flying might be an exaggeration.

OK, Who's next?

Moscow to California, 1937

Gene Gurney, The War in the Air, Crown Publishers 1962

 Crowds gather around the Russian ANT-25 that landed near San Jacinto, California in July 1937. The plane was being developed as a long range bomber and several long distance flights were undertaken in the mid 1930s. In June 1937 a flight from Moscow to San Francisco was planned, bad weather resulted in higher than expected fuel consumption and the plane landed at the Portland Or. airport. Three weeks later another flight took place, routed over the North Pole and in foggy conditions the plane landed in a field in southern California. The non stop 7100 mile flight took 62 hrs 17 minutes. The plane had enough fuel left on board to have continued on to Panama.

 

 

The three pilots, Gromov, Yumashev, and Danilin.