Sidecar Sunday

 

Guarantee Motor Co.

 The company seems to have dealt in marine engines at the beginning of the last century. I suspect it was a short lived venture, no information comes up. That area of the city has been built over, anything industrial is long gone. I’d like to see the engine trouble book.

Dynamic Fab

 It seems there is a neverending list of companies that made C clamps, but maybe, as they say, you can never have too many clamps.

  Once again no information for the name online, just a couple on ebay.

Torpedo boat USS Alarm

The USS Alarm was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and launched in 1873, an attempt by the Navy to introduce experimental new technology to the military. Times were changing, newfangled steam power was being accepted as well as breech loading guns. The Alarm was to be a fast sleek Torpedo boat, and featured a 24 foot long ramming bow. The torpedos were attached to extending spars at the bow. An attack would consist of the torpedo boat ramming an enemy ship while extending explosives on spars towards the ship. There was a single forward firing 15 inch Dahlgren gun to increase the firepower. Provisions for filling the hull with water to decrease its silhouette were also tried. 

Instead of paddle wheels or propellers, the ship was fitted with a new design "Fowler Wheel" which was a vertical shaft with 4 paddles attached. The paddles were feathered by a cam till they approached the starboard where the paddle wheel extended to provide forward motion. It was not successful, it was very inefficient and the boat never achieved the speed anticipated. There were additional modifications tried but the boat was reduced to a gunnery training vessel, probably never used and scrapped in 1898. Pretty sure this was an exercise in deadends. More here.

Also here.

 

Ideal 45-079 cable cutter

Armored cable (BX cable) cutter with compound cutting action.

Patent  US 2246350 A

Know your Renault Dauphine

 Not sure how many made it to Canada, but Renault made about 2 million of these 850cc four seaters.

Calrad Morse code practice terminal

 Not much call for these Morse code devices any more... Is it used at all any more?

Harley patent 1,510,937 1924

This is an advanced concept for 1924. A one piece welded pressed steel frame for a motorcycle. As far as I know it was never built.

 

Airplanes in formation; Douglas Dauntless

 If you're a Dauntless fan, find this book. Previous post

American Snowmobile Oil

 I knew that logo looked familiar (we don't have it in Canada). In 1985, American changed its corporate name to Amoco (from American Oil Company) and kept the red, white and blue Torch logo. In the mid-twentieth century it was ranked the largest oil company in the United States. 

 

Monday Mystery, Unreadable logo

This is a British-made open end wrench but the script-type logo is a mystery. Guesses?

Monday Mystery, a something-Anchor

 They look like some sort of longitudinally clamping device, and apparently a patent was applied for. Any guesses before we do a Google image search?

Phoenix Mfg. C Clamp

 Nice old 6" clamp, with wing nut. Once again, no company information online that I could find.

Sidecar Sunday

 

Frazer Nash Nurburg, 1932

Supercharged 1.5 litre engine driven through chains to the rear wheels. Below, 3 speed transmission with reverse.

Breaker bar

 When is a breaker bar not a breaker bar?

When it's from Harbour Freight. 

I twisted this one off the first time I tried to use it, did the job with a 40 year old Craftsman 1/2" ratchet and a 4 foot piece of pipe. But really, at $18, what was I expecting?

Chevrolet, 1961

 1961, the fins are gone, and it's a sleek, smaller car. Chevrolet built 352,110 hard tops that year.

Cloud Car

Cloud car of tomorrow, or the week after next or... 

Ohhh, the optimism of the 1950s...

 

Shingle hammer

 No name on this tool, I expect it's home made, the handle is the least ergonomic thing ever.

Dandy Shine; patented in 1903

Basically I guess this is a shoe holder for shining shoes, the shoe is held in place with the two arms which are located by the tang against the teeth on the rack. I can think of better ways to accomplish the same task...

 

Buffalo gasolene engine, 1900

 Slow and fast turning engines... another marine engine maker that disappeared quickly. A Google map search shows a gentrifying neighbourhood...

McKaig-Hatch wrench

McKaig Hatch was a manufacturer of low and midpriced tools mostly for automotive use and apparently provided tools for Ford and GM cars during the thirties. The company had been founded in 1913 in Buffalo NY by Archibald McKaig, H. C. Young, and C. R. Hatch and was around into at least into the 1960s. This make of tools does not appear often in our area.

Velocette Thruxton

Another beauty from about the same timeframe as the TC305. Different strokes.

 

Suzuki TC305 Scrambler

High pipe and knobbier tires than the T 305 street version. Reserved but attractive styling for the time, likely the same design team as for the much more attractive T125 Stinger.

 

Tiny wee Pony Clamp .

  Pony Tools had made clamps in the United States since its founding in 1903, when the small company opened up in Chicago, Illinois. 

According to the Pony Jorgensen website;

   Founder Adele Holman, a former professional opera singer, envisioned a company that could grow through product innovation, excellent customer service, and woodworking tools with superior performance. She partnered with Hans Jorgensen, a Danish cabinetmaker, and Marcus Russ, a tool salesman. 

 The company remained a family-run business until it closed in 2016. The name now appears as part of the Pony Jorgensen operation.

Little red Corvette

 Now, that's sweet.