BSA Bantam

  Ad from 1967, a groovy cool couple on a Bantam.

 The bike had been part of the BSA lineup since 1948, from a 1930s DKW design first sold in 1939. It soldiered on till 1971.

Pontiac Parisienne drag car

Shouldn't be sitting outside....

 

Not a cellphone...

 Do guys still shave wherever they are?

Edgley EA-7 Optica .

 

Looks like a bug, but this a British light aircraft designed for low-speed observation work, it first flew in 1979. It was intended as a low-cost alternative to helicopters with a loiter speed of 80 mph and a stall speed of 67 mph. Power is by a flat six with a ducted fan. Only twenty two units have been built.
 

Weeden steam engine # 34

  This toy steam engine model with 8 inch long boiler was introduced in 1898 and produced till 1940.  The boiler jacket of this model was decorated with the star pattern shown here as well as snowflake or round hole patterns.

  Weeden was an American company that began making toy steam engines in 1884 as a promotion for The Youth's Companion magazine. Company history here.

Monday Mystery, tool with knob

  It's easy enough to google the Snap-on part number and find out what this nice little tool is for but before you do can you figure it out? The Snap-on name would indicate automotive... hint, it's used with a socket.

sidecar sunday

 

Ivory Calthorpe

March/April 2020 Motorcycle Classics 

 

CleanCut candle wick trimmer

  At first I thought this was some specialized medical-type pair of scissors, but they seemed too decorative for that use. Google Lens pointed me in the right direction, it's a candle wick trimmer for all that candle maintenance you've been neglecting...

 

Slaymaker lock

   John Slaymaker started his company in 1888 to make locks for the Pennsylvania railway. In 1898, the company started making steam cars, but Mr Slaymaker soon abandoned the now-named Baldwin Automobile Manufacturing Company venture to return to his locks. With the Pennsylvania Railway connection, I wonder if the Baldwin Locomotive company was somehow involved. 

  He purchased the T. Slaight lock company in 1904 and that company was renamed the Slaymaker Lock Manufacturing company, until 1917, when W.E. Fraim of the E.T. Fraim lock company bought in changing the nam e to simply Slaymaker Lock Co. In 1921, John Slaymaker exited, prompting yet another name change. 

 Manufacturing so often seems to be just a game of musical chairs. 

   So quite likely this lock dates to that 17 year period.  And finally, nothing really of note in this cheap lock except the Slaymaker logo.