BSA C15 engine cutaway, 1959

Artwork by F.W. Beak, Not much information on him online.

 

Crescent double-ended adjustable

  Crescent started making the adjustable wrench as we know it in about1905 although they did not patent it till 1915. The double ended version appeared about the same time and was sold till at least 1960. I suspect they're more fun to look at than they are a useful tool. 

Tonka Airlines luggage tractor

Seems like an unusual model for a toy, especially when Tonka failed to provide an airliner in the same scale... The toy included two luggage wagons.

 

Stanley 39 Dado Plane

I don't often look at old planes too much, this one caught my eye. Between the years 1902 and 1952, Stanley made the #39 plane in 7 sizes, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, 13/16 and 7/8". They seem to be a sought after tool.

Datamp Patent 706,704

1982 Jeep

   Did people keep them as a collector item, I wonder? 

  List price seems ridiculously cheap.  In Canada in1982 average income was about $30k per year. Assume the lower prices in the US and the 25-30% exchange rate, it's still much less than a 1/2 year income.

Sidecar Sunday

 

Fanny B.

 250cc Villiers two stroke engine. Villiers provided engines for nearly all the lightweight postwar British motorcycles, as well as utility engines for lawnmowers and industrial machinery.

Turnscrew

 Last month I found out what a turnscrew is, this month I found one!

J &R four into one

 I think of J&R as a two stroke exhaust manufacturer more than 4 stroke-but this seems to be working...

Fashion Friday For the speedy sixties!