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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Sidecar Sunday

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RM Sotheby's auction  
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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Safety first

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   The Vanderbilt Cup was held on Long Island between the years 1904 and 1909. It was very popular with a quarter million spectators attendi...

Ratchet action Speed Wrench

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This wrench was based on 1973 patent number 3762244 for a wrench with ratcheting action accomplished with the shape of the jaw rather than m...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Bonneville speed record machine, The Quiet Kid

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Speed record contender in the early 1960s. This machine is built around a Scott Atwater outboard motor (displacement unknown) and apparently...
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Post drill by Champion Blower and Forge

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These old flat belt-driven devices show up on occasion. Heavy and awkward, with too many handwheels, levers and cranks etc. for me they'...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Ascott Pullen

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 Probably not much of a motorcycle (it wasn't a commercial success and in business only from 1928-1930).  The company closed up after th...
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Schermuly rocket flare cross section

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Canadian Pacific wooden cabooses

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Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific , Footprint Pub. 1992 Apparently the name caboose is derived from the Dutch word Kabuis meaning ships...
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Blackhawk Nugget bullet toolbox

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 That's a distinctive shape for a toolbox. From what I've been able to find these sets were first manufactured in the 1930s and on s...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Planes in formation, Otters

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 de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otters w ith skis, flying over Yellowknife...
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