Sidecar Sunday

 Hauptman trial? Anyone remember the Lindbergh kidnapping?

Seemed like a great idea at the time...

 

Link belts

The Teach Yourself books
 A E Peatfield, Engineering Components and Materials. The English Engineering Press, 1951

 Still around today... 

Lee Valley

Baldwin Duckworth chain

1948

 Care and lubrication here.  History of Baldwin Duckworth here.

Unnecessary cross section view?

Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice, American Technical Society, Vol 1, 1903

 The mystery of vise mechanisms revealed! No one could have known.

The Future of Transportation!

Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938

 But hadn't we already eliminated Zeppelins a few years earlier?

Long live the Offenhauser engine!

Artist; Vic Berris

  The Offy 4 cylinder racing engine was designed in the twenties by Fred Offenhauser and Harry Miller of Miller Racing as a marine racing engine. During the 1930s, when Indianapolis racers favored 1.5 straight eights, it was adapted for car racing and started winning due to the displacement allowance of 3 litres for fours. During the 1950s, rules changes and the need for more power prompted a 4.1 litre supercharged version. Starting in the late sixties, turbocharging was being developed, With displacement back down to about 2.6 litres, and 25- 40lbs of boost the engine was again competitive.  In all, cars powered with various forms of the engine won Indianapolis 27 times between 1935 and 1976. 

We used to make things in this country #379 Bricks

 Domtar (Dominion Tar and Chemical Co.) is a large paper and forestry product company that was in the brick business through most of the 20th Century, selling it to Canada Brick in 1997.

 The company was known for the safety messages stamped in the bricks. These ones found on a lawn nearby say "Don't learn by accident". Other messages were "Drive Safely" and "Live Safely" as shown/sold at this site.

Tempo Hanseat

 

  I found reference to this oddball in an old book, the internet sent me to this blog, Project Tempo. It's a three wheel delivery truck made in postwar Germany that features whole driveline mounted on the front fork. That includes a watercooled 400cc 2 stroke engine complete with radiator and four speed transmission. Who thought that was a good idea? Not sure if there was a connection but it looks like a development of the Phänomen, previous post here.

Cunningham C-4R

  Briggs Cunningham in the C-4R at LeMans in 1954. The car was built in 1952 for use at LeMans and was retired in 1956, its best result was in the 1953 event when it finished 3rd. 

The engine was a Chrysler Firepower V8 coupled up to a Cadillac 3 speed manual in a tubular frame with torsion bar suspension. 

 Below, Briggs Cunningham behind the wheel, later on.