Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

Above, a brush advertising T.E. Braime & Co. of Toronto.  It was at a yard sale nearby and the lovely seller, Alice, kindly allowe...

Made by the German firm of Walter Blombach out of Remscheid.  They began as a manufacturer of files.  Today they specialize in machi...

In my pile of old motorcycle magazines I discovered a Ride and Glide  dated January 1985, turns out it was the introductory issue of th...

I found this evocative old print entitled "The Guiding Light."  James Gale Tyler was born in Oswego, New York in 1855.  He beca...

"Ditto"--the same in French and English!

The right engine on a Grumman Tracker

In 1935 41 year old Giuseppe Figoni partnered with Ovidio Falaschi and set up a coachbuilding company in Paris. Figoni & Falaschi cre...

Mechanics Illustrated , July 1968

For the story and other great photos, see the Wikipedia entry.