Skilsaw 1612 chainsaw

 A lightweight saw for the home handyman market. This 34cc saw was introduced in 1977. Specs here.

More info on Skil chainsaw history here. (scroll down)

sidecar Sunday

 Actor Keenan Wynn riding his Triumph motorcycle with actress Patti Chandler in the sidecar. Photo snapped on the set of the 1964 feature film Bikini Beach. 

Canadian National Railway chisel

We know who owned this chisel but who made it? What does "US" or "SO" in raised letters signify?

 

Ron Wood Rotax dirt tracker, 1988

Not sure where the image was found. I'd frame this and hang it on the wall.

Colon Locomotive of the Panama Railroad

 The Portland Locomotive Works built this unusual 4 wheel tank steam engine for the Panama Railroad in 1865. The controls were mounted on the left and for some reason the firebox door is located on the right side next to the man posing on the locomotve. Where the fuel was carried is not clear. The gauge was 5 feet, driver diameter 42" with cylinders of 12 x 18".

Brillant wood plane

A kind of toy-like wood plane, painted red and green, this is made by Kunz of Germany, postwar. This one is also badged with the Hoppe name. 

It is described online as a general purpose plane for occasional coarse work like planing a door or similar, it does not get a lot of love among plane aficionados.

 

Reading a caliper in 1919

Modern Shop Practice,  American Technical Society, 1919
Vol 1 Machine Shop Practice Production Manufacturing

 

Model K Chassis, Winton motor carriage

Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice, American Technical Society, 1907

 

We used to make things in this country #366, 466 de Havilland Otters

 Celebrating the company's (and Canada's) involvement in the Middle East peacekeeping duties. 

466 Otters were built between 1952 and 1967.

1932 Pierce Arrow

$3295 in 1930 translates to about $64000 today. Doesn't seem like a lot of money for the car.

 

Sterling linen tape measure

 These "Sterling" cloth tapes were produced by the Lufkin company through the 1940s, they were sold alongside the steel measuring tape they introduced in 1890.  Previous Lufkin post here.

 

MG speed record car, EX135

  The MG EX135 was part of a series of MG speed record racers campaigned from the 1930s till the 1950s. This car started out as a single seat circuit racer. With help from the company Reid Railton, a fully streamlined body was fabricated and with 49 year old Lieutenant Colonel Goldie Gardner at the wheel, the car achieved 187.62 mph on a German autobahn in November 1938.

Indians for the army

 Reminds me of a song: One little, two little, three little....

Wrenches not made here, Urrea?

Thanks to Anon in the comments, I've been corrected, its not Ukkea , it's Urrea... I blame the font! This is an unusual one, it's a standard 11/16- 3/4" wrench, but also marked in metric to one decimal place and a first for me, hecho en (made in) Mexico!

 

Vard hydraulic fork

 Vard was a supplier of landing gear to the aviation industry during WW2, after the war they applied their expertise to making an aftermarket telescopic fork for motorcycles. More here,  

Sidecar Sunday

 

Hoggson & Pettis conductors punch

 

  Hoggson & Pettis was more known for their Sweetland patent lathe chuck but Samuel Hoggson started the company in 1848 to make stencils, stamping and cutting dies. When Pettit joined the company in 1878, the chuck was added to the product line. A quick google brings up a number of other products, hole punches, leather marking wheels, a typewriter and this conductor's ticket punch. The company is said to have ben in business till at least 1918.

ISDT BMW 1967

 The engine seems to be lifted in the frame and pretty sure that's a Yamaha tank.

We used to make things in this country #375 Massey Harris pressure sprayer

 

Infantometer

Modern medicine can't thank Dr. Dumay enough for this device to accurately measure the height (or length) of a baby lying down. The next thing is to consider how to pronounce the word. Is it In-FANT-o-meter or Infan-TOM-a-ter?

 

Renold Chain

Imaginative image. And another T shirt candidate.

Cast iron "Bully Beef" can opener

This cast iron can opener was supplied with cans of corned beef from Britain, being a play on the nickname of the product "bully beef". It was introduced in the mid 1860s and carried on till the 1930s.

 

One of my vices is vises, Tecomaster

Tecomaster was the house brand of the T. Eaton Company chain of department stores, the name derived from Timothy Eaton Co. The brand was used from the 1950s through the seventies, though a Fall Winter catalog from 1975 doesn't mention the name. The vise would have been sourced from a contract manufacturer, this 3" vise looks suspiciously like one from Rae.

 

Packard Torsion-Level suspension, 1955

 Packard's self leveling suspension, it wasn't enough, they staggered through a year or two more, closed the doors in 1958.

 Meanwhile, across the pond, The Citroen DS with hydropneumatic suspension was also introduced in 1955.

 

Cushman

Maybe a model 50? I don't know my Cushmans, looks like an aftermarket pipe...
 

Desperate times at Triumph

The TR25W Trophy replaced the 200cc Tiger Cub in the catalog, basically just a rebadged BSA Starfire 250. 

Hi-Test wrench

  These Hi-Test wrenches were made in Japan for an import and mail order company based in New York named Hi Test Premier. The odd 19/32" size corresponds to 15mm (probably coincidently) and was used on older machinery, I've seen the bolt head size on 8N Fords, why I do not know.  The finish is a little rough but quality doesn't look too bad.

According to Alloy Artifacts, Hi-Test Premier was in business from the 1950s through at least the 1970s.

 

Dodge for 1931

Dodge, trying hard in the depth of the Depression.

 

Truly, a yacht to be proud of!

 Price on request...

Sidecar Sunday

 

Know your micrometers

 Above, parts of the micrometer. below, the first micrometer made by Jean Palmer of France in 1848, as brought back to the US by Joseph R Brown and Lucien Sharp after a visit to the Paris Exposition. Bottom, their improved version of 1885.

Shop Theory, Henry Ford Trade School, McGraw Hill 1942

Illustration from 1936

 Child-Life Arithmetics 6 by Breed, Overman & Woody, 1936.

Oneletterwords

 Wasn't the future wonderful?

Wrench etiquette

 Why doesn't everyone know this?