Yamaha 125 AS1-C production racer

Tons o' fun at 60 mph...

Sky-writing, 1936

It would be hard to do a URL, though.

Checking trucks in Ontario, 1960's?

Today, entire wheels are flying off of these things on Ontario highways.

Atlantic and St Lawrence Locomotive #6

Nick and Helma Mika, Railways of Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1972

Built by the Portland Company in 1849, the locomotive became #103 when the the A and St. L was absorbed into the Grand Trunk railway.

Buy-Rite gasoline

One for the long-time Kingston, Ontario residents, from the era of independent gas stations. 

This is a promotional keychain medallion I found recently, I remember the Buy Rite at Queen and Barrie but none of the others. Exit 105 may have been the 401 Joyceville road exit which has been a Husky truck stop for as long as I can remember.
 I believe this was part of the Rosen Fuels empire which was more known for home oil delivery. "Don't wait till you're half-frozen, buy your fuel from Harry Rosen".

50-Ton Ladle

Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice.  Chicago:  American Technical Society, 1907.

That would hold a lot of soup!

The William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio was founded in 1863 to produce the huge equipment needed by the steel industry and was a pioneer in the manufacture of blast furnaces.  The collapse of the steel industry in the late 1970's economically devastated the city.  The Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation has been set up to preserve its industrial heritage.  The jewel of their collection is a Tod rolling mill engine, officially a 34”and 68”x 60” cross compound non reversing merchant mill engine.

Fun car

Sidecar Sunday

photo by Alvin

Barber Vintage 2015

Boats in Picton harbour

Various views of Picton Harbour, today there is little evidence of the shipping activity shown in these undated photos from Willis Metcalfe's book, Canvas and Steam on Quinte Waters, published by the South Marysburgh Marine Society, 1979

L.C. Smith Typewriter, 1929

The 1929 World Almanac and Book of Facts.  Facsimile Edition.  American Heritage Press, Workman Publishing Co., Inc., 1971.

L.C. Smith was founded in Syracuse from a shotgun making firm.  The company was the first to offer a machine that could print both upper- and lower-case letters. The idea for ball bearings came from a patent for artificial legs, which the Smith brothers bought. Eventually, the company merged with Corona, the leading manufacturer of portable typewriters.  The rest, as they say, is history.