Testbed

 This ex-Air Canada Viscount used in the development of the PT6A-50 turboprop engine model utilized as the powerplant for the de Havilland Canada Dash 7 commuter airliner.  The conversion was done by the United Aircraft of Canada, now Pratt and Whitney Canada. The modified plane flew from January to October in 1974. 

VickerViscount.net

Rich Child Cycle

 Who named that kid?

Warner radial engines

 
 

I was surprised to find that Warner is still around supporting their radial engines in the 125-185 hp range. From their site comes this: Warner Engines have powered many different civilian and military aircraft over the years:

 Aeronca, Amphibion, Beasley, Bird, Cabinaire, Cessna, Challanger, Commandaire, Consolidated, Conquest, Cosmic, Cross-Foster, Cunningham-Hall, Curtis, Dart, Davis, Doodlebug (NACA), Fairchild, Fleet, Gee-Bee, General, Goodyear (lighter than air), Harlow, Howard, Inland, Issoudun, Laird, Lincoln, Loening, Luscombe, Meyers, Monocoupe, Monosport, Ong, Paramount, Pitcairn, Porterfield, Ranger, Roamair, Ryan, Rearwin, Simplex, Sioux, Sky-Car, Stinson, Swallow, Swift, Travelaire, U.S.Navy (lighter than air) Valkyr, and Waco.

Along with the engines, they sell drawings like these. 

VW Jetta in white

 More than once people have stopped to look at and photograph this car. So here it is. To me it's just another one of thousands of boring old Jettas, but I guess to some folk it's getting to be a "vintage car"...

 

Jas. Clark Electric tools

  When the company opened in 1892 the company was named after the founders, Cooper and Clark. L H Cooper retired in 1907 and the renamed company continued making their handheld power tools. This 1944 ad seems to indicate the company was doing well, but it was acquired by new owners in 1948 who closed and liquidated the company the same year.

Sidecar Sunday

 Passenger needs a windshield...

Supershort chassis SJ Deusenbergs

  Apparently there were only two supershort chassis Deusenbergs made, one for Clark Gable (above)  and one for Gary Cooper.  I found these two images in different books, each said they were an example of the supershort chassis Deusenberg but Gary Cooper's car looks stodgy compared to Mr. Gable's. 

 

Caille outboard motors

 Around 1906, the first gasoline outboard motor was designed by a Yale law student from Detroit named Cameron Waterman. Waterman asked the Caille Brothers, who manufactured slot-machines, to build the first 25 outboard motors. When the motors sold out immediately, Caille began producing their own successful line of outboards, and by the 1920s were making racing outboards. 

The company struggled during the Great Depression and was eventually acquired by Fuller-Johnson Company, and outboard production ended by the mid-1930s. I found some conflicting information which says the Fuller Johnson company closed in 1932. In any case, that was the end of the company.

Fashion Friday, Dress like Nuvolari

 

Stylish. That's a look to aspire to.

Aluminum tops the Washington Monument

  The capstone of the Washington Monument is a 9-inch tall aluminum pyramid, placed on December 6, 1884, to finish the 555-foot obelisk. Aluminum was chosen because it was as valuable as silver at the time due to the difficulty in refining. At the time it was the largest piece of cast aluminum ever made.

 Two years later, newly discovered industrial processes brought the price of aluminum down to earth but the original capstone is still there.