We used to make things in this country # 174: Toronto Drydock

The ferry Sam McBride shown under construction at the Toronto Drydock Company in 1939. The boat, named after a Toronto mayor, is still in service today.

Early Drone

 Early Drones. About 7000 of these unmanned aircraft have been produced for target practise and surveillance duties since the start of the program in 1951.

Countering a body hold, 1935

Sid G. Hedges (Editor).  The Universal Book of Hobbies.  London:  Odhams Press Limited, 1935.

Or just good, clean fun the British way!

Cincinnati Tool Company No. 600 Clamp Fixture

I recently picked up this pipe clamp fixture, still in its original pasteboard box with metal reinforcers at the corners.  It's amazing that the box has survived over all of those years.   Anyway, I've never had the opportunity to open an original box and actually lift out a never-used tool from decades past.  Very cool!  The clamp is now installed on a long 3/4" pipe.  Until I saw the drawings on the box, I had thought that the Cincinnati Tool Company only made clamps.  I hadn't realized that they made striking tools as well.

2CV TPV (Toute Petite Voiture—"Very Small Car")

One of a prewar pilot run of 250. Management hid the project from the Germans and very few survived the war. At this point five examples exist, it appears that occasionally another one turns up from its hiding place. 
The single headlight met the French legal requirements of the time.

Pemberton Hotel, Wind Mill Point, Mass.

Yankees Under Steam,  Edited by Austin N Stevens, Yankee Inc. 1970

The place to be vacationing in the 1880s if you were a "nice" and "good" Bostonian. Located off Boston in Hull, the building survived the usual scourge of these huge frame buildings- fire, and was demolished in the 1950s. 

The Atlantic Cold Storage Company, Trenton, Ontario 1913

Thomas Jarrett.  The Evolution of Trenton Ontario.  1813-1913.  Reprinted 1986, Kiwanis Club of Trenton, Inc.

Eben James helped found this company.  By 1913, he had spent twenty years in the apple business, so he must have understood it to the core.  For seven years, he was the Canadian representative of Messrs. Woodall & Co. of Liverpool, the largest (and possibly the first) importers of Canadian apples to England.  Mr. James was also president of the Trenton Cooperage Company, which employed over 150 people at its peak.  Mr. James was one busy guy!

Escape by tractor

Nikolai Mikhailov.  Discovering the Soviet Union.  Moscow:  Progress Publishers, 1965.

"While, from the point of view of their pursuers, the stolen tractor was both obvious and slow, Dmitri and Stanimir had decided it was still their best bet if they were to make it across the dense fields of sugar beets to the mountains by nightfall."

Mister G tells me that this is a Fordson tractor.  Maybe, but as the old Russian proverb goes, "doveryai no proveryai." 

Fuel stop

George Abdill; This was Railroading, Bonanza Books 1958

In the 1880s, settlers could make a good income supplying wood to the railways.

Sportstyl Dragon Minibike