Cycle Guide, Feb 1970

 4 shillings in the UK... (that's the old money...)

Wow! The new 1990 Makita catalog is here!

 Like a kid in a candy store! Lots of money for cordless tools back then but I was making good use of the anemic and adequate 3.5 V B&D cordless screwdriver I had...

 

Aviation Meet, Los Angeles

1910 was a big year for airshows. 

"What should we feature on the poster?"

 "Everything! Everything you can find that flies. Or looks like it could fly!"

 

Sidecar Sunday

Sorry for the belated post,  gone fishing...

 

Basic tips for tool users

 

Masonry hammer

 

Just an old masonry hammer in for rehandling.This type of head is used to texture concrete or soft stone. I carved up the handle from a scrap of hickory left over from making an axe handle. 

Best looking Volvo?

 Some folk may understand the license plate...

Model T advantages

Price advantage isn't mentioned...

 

Tank maintenance, 1918

 A view of the Tank Corps Central Workshop at Teneur, France, located about 50 km from the front lines, with tanks on railway cars in the background. The facility covered about 20 acres, reliability was not a WW1 tank's strong point. 

Airplane engine parts

Cyril Donaldson and George LeCain, Tool Design, Second edition, McGraw Hill, 1957

 Interesting, the mix of fractional and decimal measurements.