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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

1939 Benelli supercharged four

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Benelli had a very successful DOHC single cylinder racer in 1938 and '39 but they knew they were going to need more. The result was this...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Lightbulbs wanted, 1916

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Dominion was founded by Isabelle Frampton, formerly a foreman (foreperson)- at 22 years of age!- of the lighting department of the Packard E...
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Hughes H1 racer

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Built in 1935, this was Howard Hughes' speed record plane. A beautiful thing. He immediately broke the world landplane speed record cloc...
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Cross section car from Japan

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Thanks, Rolf!  A cross section model of a prewar car from Japan, not much info available, not sure if this is an actual car, or a simplified...
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ABG Vap

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  Another of the postwar motors for the masses, a clip-on motor, why pedal? The company was a large manufacturer of mopeds and auxiliary eng...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Achieving closure; Early Desmodromics

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Classic MotorCycle July1991  

Sidecar Sunday

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After Swallow Sidecars introduced fibreglass as a material for molding sidecar bodies in the mid fifties, Watsonian wasn't far behind, i...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Jaguar Brontosaurus

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  The Jaguar XKC 301 was an aerodynamic experimental prototype designed by Fred Gardner with William Lyons in 1953. It was built as a static...

We used to do inexplicable things in this country (apparently)

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  Thanks, Rolf- I think.... This article from  Postwarclassic  was sent to me, I really can't add anything... except to say maybe the wo...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Celfor drills in 1916

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In 1904 Eugene B. Clark, an Illinois Steel employee at the time, determined that the metallurgy of Rich Manufacturing's principal produc...
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