Everoak Helmets

Sidewheeler Chas. Houghton

 

Very little information on this nicely proportioned steamboat other than it was used on the Rockland-Bangor Me. run for much of its life.

http://downeastmainegenealogy.ning.com/page/calais-maine?commentId=4626734%3AComment%3A42775&xg_source=activity

Language Journeys Grade VIII

E.B. Broome & J. McGechaen.  Language Journeys.  Grade VIII. (Toronto:  The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., 1954.) Illustrated by Nancy Caudle.

Cool cover.  It also had a chapter on "Courtesy" which included the following exercises:

Once upon a time, they actually taught courtesy in school, in Grade 8 no less!  These conventions have pretty much gone by the boards nowadays.  Progress is fine...

We used to make things in this country. #149: Samco Engineering Company Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia

Nice wobble-type dado from my shop, probably from the 50's or 60's.  I can find no record of the company on the web.  Another Canadian manufacturer just gone.

Aviators

Two pilots receiving final instructions before their departure. 
This photograph was published in the Spanish newspaper "ABC" on July 1st 1932. 

Camelback Atlantic, Erie Railroad

Edwin Alexander, American Locomotives,1900-1950; Bonanza Books. 1950

Spot the differences.

Evolution of a passenger locomotive class from 1900-1921

Woman munitions worker, USSR in WWII

Sentinels of Peace.  The Soviet Armed Forces.  Moscow:  Progress Publishers, 1980.

Making electric meters in the 1960's

Introduction to Work Study. 2nd Edition, Revised.  Geneva:  International Labour Office, 1969. 

Grass track racing Square Four

September 1965 Cycle World

Another answer to a question no one asked.

Messerschmitt Me109, German and Spanish versions

US Air Force Museum

The Me 109 at the US Air Force museum (above) was originally a Spanish HA-1112-M1L acquired in 1966 but was converted to BF109-G configuration by museum teams in 1982-83.

Variations on the Me 109 continued to be built in Spain after WW2, albeit with Hispano Suiza and Merlin engines, giving the cowl a different look as both those engines had the cylinders pointing up.  The German models used a Daimler Benz inverted V12, locating the exhaust pipes much lower in the fuselage.

 Genuine German 109s were understandably rare after WW2 and collectors who wanted one snapped up the only thing available, the Spanish ones. The Canadian Museum also has a Spanish Hispano HA–1112–M1L shown below in Spanish colours, no longer on display now that they have a Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4, acquired in a trade for one the Museum's two Messerschmitt Me 163B Komets.