Nice air show, 1910

 

Sidecar Sunday

CarbonArt blog

 Photoshop? I dunno...

Every fashionable male needs a Summer Sammy...

Yes, men really did dress like that in 1930. Great illustrations.

Blue Point CF70 Spark Plug Gapper

 

Here's a plier-type spark plug gap adjuster from Blue Point. Patent # 2645142 shows its use.

Railway sabotage, 1871

 

Yamaha GTS1000

These don't turn up very often, the James Parker-designed front end was not a big sales success. Looks good in yellow!

 

One of my vices is vises, Sears 506-51776

 Just a nicely decorated but middling quality 4" department store vise, If you wanted quality, you had to go to the Craftsman line...

Barcalo Ford multitool 1932

Here's a wrench patented by Alex De Schebeko and produced by Barcalo-Buffalo. The specifications state explicitly the wrench is for spark plugs, front and rear wheel brake adjustment, and drain plugs on "old and new Ford automobiles and trucks".

Domnol motor oil

 Dominion Stores was a chain of grocery stores in eastern and central Canada, started in 1919. At some point the company decided they should be in the motor oil business, I have no idea of the possible date of this can but maybe 1950s at a guess? I don't recall ever seeing this brand name in stores. The quantity is also odd, six quarts? 

Dominion is now gone, being absorbed by A&P in the mid eighties, and rebranded to Metro Stores in 2005. 

Armoured car in Toronto, 1925

Bill Sherk, 60 years behind the Wheel, Dundurn Press, 2003

Money being transferred at the Bank of Montreal at Front and Yonge St in Toronto. 96 years later, the bank is the Hockey Hall of Fame, the building across the street has been replaced, the curb area is a no parking zone, progress...