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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Fork in the road

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  Although BMW was the first to introduce a hydraulically damped telescopic fork,  in 1935,  postwar they jumped quickly on Ernie Earles new...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Kilborn & Bishop wrench

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Kilborn and Bishop was a forging company located in New Haven, they started making tools in 1896. A little Googling shows some more S shaped...

Cadillac Jack

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Looks like a comtemporary of this earlier-post wrench , I was wondering if it might have been manufactured by Hartford but there are no real...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Hockley Abbey Level

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 Hockley Abbey was an early brand name for John Rabone.   The name came from a large house built near Birmingham in the late 1700s to resemb...

Bike in the 'hood

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Monday, May 15, 2023

Another find...

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 Here's a nice cast iron or steel piece, The ring is about 2 1/2" diameter and the overall height about 4 inches. I can't imagi...
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Monday Mystery; General Electric Gen-Set model

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Here's an interesting display . It's a wooden model of what seems to be a 6 cylinder diesel generator set. It does...
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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Mossberg B-1 Bicycle wrench

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 This small 5" bicycle adjustable wrench is exactly like the A-1 wrench shown at Alloy Artifacts . I picked it up solely because I didn...
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Sidecar Sunday

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  At the Watsonian factory, a lineup of Norton outfits ready to deliver to the RAC for patrol duty.
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Saturday, May 13, 2023

Another tool you may not have realized you need

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