Racing funnel

 I'd call that a megaphone, doesn't a "funnel" imply flow in the other direction?

Old Riverside Multitool

Multitool or maybe an implement wrench, hard to tell with tools this old. Tool has a large size wrench of about 2 inches, small square wrench with a light hammer and pick. The other side text looks like S.C.C. & T, which doesn't produce much in a Google search.

 

Bradford Penn, now available in Canada

Bradford Penn Oil Co. Canada 1950-1984

 

Emulating Rollie Free

 

The Modern Boy Magazine

Rivets are faster... That illustration looks like it came from a Popular Mechanix magazine... The Modern Boy was a weekly British magazine in print from 1928 to 1939. More history here.

Lotus 7 for 1961

The Lotus 7 was introduced in 1957. 2500 units were sold before production ended in 1973. 

Caterham bought the rights and the car is still produced in various forms today.

Motociclista

 Motociclista, circa 1924–1925

 by Italian artist Mario Sironi, 1885–1961

Linesman telegraph wire crimpers

We're used to modern consumer-oriented crimpers, the industrial versions make better connections but are much more expensive. A hundred-plus years ago this is what a telegraph linesman would have been using.

 

 

Klein catalog

Klein catalog 1954
Thanks, Dave!

Stevens Arms and Tools

A great gift, any time of the year.

Universal T bevel

No makers name, but a nice little square with cast aluminum body.

 

A million Jawas?

 

Rudge 1934

Just the front and rear covers, for the graphic design, but we’ll include the introduction page with the previously unknown Toronto dealer info.

 

Ideal Stencil casting

Shown here because I like the cast iron parts, there is a website devoted to these machines at IdealStencil

 

Sidecar Sunday

Motor engineer Mr. H. Jenneret and an (unnamed) passenger try out his new motorcycle and ‘oscillant’ sidecar where the driver and sidecar wheel leans at the same time. This invention stops the sidecar from turning over. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

Cyclomoto

This 1922 Peugeot model is the Cyclomoto, the engine of which is in the front wheel. Like the larger model, it is a two-stroke, 45x58 mm. (92 c.c), and is entirely self-contained with its drive. A magneto flywheel is fitted, which serves for both ignition and lighting, and the unit incorporates a Ferodo-lined disc clutch. The engine lies in the centre of the front hub, the inner side of which has an internally-toothed ring, and there are meshing with it three pinions, one of which is driven by the engine. All working parts are entirely enclosed, and the lubrication is by the petroil system. The front wheel and forks, which are of the spring variety, may be supplied with an attachment for fitting to an ordinary pedal cycle. It is said to be capable of averaging 18 m.p.h. 

The Motor Cycle, December 5th, 1921.

We used to make things in this country, multitool

Bottle opener (and closer), wire stripper and cutter. The packaging mentions a "Scandi-craft product" and the fabled "as seen on TV".

Ebay

 

GMC V6

 Embarrassed to say but I had never heard of this series of engines until now. I remember the bulletproof inline 250 cu in sixes that we replaced with small block V8s as soon as we could. 

J.A.Prestwich V twin drawing

 More JAP V twin...

Servess clamp

Nothing special about this clamp, probably made in China fairly recently, but if you can never have enough clamps, maybe we can never have enough clamp manufacturers! Servess was apparently the lower priced house brand of True Value hardware.

Wyandotte LaSalle and Travel Trailer

Gorgeous, much too nice for the kids...

       

 

Bullard #3 Pipe Wrench

The Bullard Automatic Wrench Co. was founded to manufacture the wrench, patented in 1903. It was made in 4 sizes, this is the third bbiggest at about 17 inches long. The company was shortlived, it was bankrupt by 1909.
 

Patent #742389

Harley Davidson JDH engine, 1929

I'll wait for the 4 cam...

 

Cloud car dreams

 

All your motoring needs!

RAI is  Rijwiel and Automobiel Industrie, which translates to: Bicycle and Automotive Industry.

RAI History

 From mopeds to family cars... 1948

Monday Mystery; Not a knife, not a chisel... Update, yes it is a chisel.

What is it?

 

Monday Mystery dowelling tool Update. It's a leather working tool.

Here's a one-hand tool that looks like it could be used to size a dowel or possibly to make tapered tenon joints. Thoughts?

 

One of my vices is vises, Marsland

   This vise was made by Marsland Engineering, an innovative electronics firm operating in Kitchener Ontario. Stanley Marsland started out repairing radios in the late 1920s as a teenager. The company grew into an electronics manufacturing company and produced components for the war effort. In 1942 he shifted gears by running two factories for Roller-Smith Co. in Pennsylvania, making sophisticated electronics for the US military. He must have been paying attention, after the war, he returned to Marsland Engineering and continued in the high tech military equipment field, subcontracting to Canadian General Electric, Canadian Westinghouse and Litton Systems. 

  All this seems unrelated to vise manufacturing but in the 50s Marsland purchased an unnamed mining supply company in Cambridge, and was producing hardware like valves, fittings, pipe wrenches and vises. This vise looks like a copy of a Record product so perhaps the design was licensed in. This type of metal casting and forging seems like an anomaly in the predominantly electronic business of Marsland Engineering. 

  Marsland became a subcontractor to IBM during the 1960s, turning the company into one of the largest employers in the Kitchener/Waterloo area. The late 1960s also brought union activity, and political unrest. The government was proposing 100% capital gains tax, in response, in 1969 Stanley Marsland sold out to Leigh Industries, an electronics and aerospace company in Carleton Place. There may also have been health issues...

 Leigh Industries expanded rapidly during during the eighties, buying up too many smaller companies and went bankrupt in 1990, and the Marsland company disappeared. 

I just realized I should really have posted this as a "We used to make things in this country..."

 (The above information comes from an article at ChuckHowett.com, and the book, The Marsland Engineering Story: Innovators and  Entrepreneurs (Waterloo: Marsland Centre Limited, 2024), 

 

Sidecar Sunday

Jesús Cirera driving and Salvador Cañellas in the sidecar, 1962