Owatonna Tools adjustable wrench

Thanks, Glenn!

This beauty was found while tidying up a toolbox at the Waterloo Central Railway.  

Made for large fasteners, the wrench is adjusted by pulling the pin and sliding the bottom jaw the correct distance, then reinserting the pin.  The grooves/ways for the moveable jaw are a good close fit, so the 7/16" dia. adjustment pin (bolt in this case) really just holds the jaws at the correct spacing. The size range seems to be 1 3/8" to 2 7/8" in 1/8" steps.

 The wrench was manufactured by the Owatonna Tool Company of Minn. which is still around, operating as OTC Tools, these days making automotive diagnosis and specialty tools.

Windsor station, Montreal

Apparently it wasn't fine enough. Built in 1889, it was replaced as the downtown station in Montreal in 1993, the building designated a historical site and is now an office building, the concourse a pedestrian mall.

 

F779 Sprinkler wrench

No sizes given but there shouldn't be any confusion... A search for the G in a triangle logo led me onto a Freemason rabbithole.

 

More painted wheels!

We just might have to reconvene at Daytona Beach. This is Terry's 57 Ford, actually I have it on good authority that the wheel colour is actually raspberry not just red. Terry changed it to copper with new wheels below. Good looking car.

 More story on Jesse's Justacarguy blog.

BSA M20 Gruppo Velox kit

The Gruppo Velox is an Italian kit manufactured by the very enterprising Luigi Parena in Turin immediately after the war in order to transform a side valve engine to an OHV high-performance engine. It consists of an aluminum cylinder, an 82mm piston and an aluminum cylinder head with crossed pushrods using (if I translate correctly) a single valve spring. Intake valve diameter was 1.250" exhaust 1.813". 

 Apparently there were kits to fit either a BSA M20 or a Norton 16H- many of which would have been "available" all over Europe. No idea how many were sold, the link below suggests only 30.

Motorcycles-for-sale

Classic-motorcycle

Stock flathead M20

Sportster, None faster.

 No one? I guess even at that point, it was debatable,  Cycle World said in April 1968 top speed was 114mph, neck and neck with a Trident or Rocket 3. Right around the corner were competitors from Japan...

Alaska or bust!

According to the caption in the Feb 1968 Cycle World, these are people heading north to Alaska to find work. It was the sixties, mannnnn...

 

Planes in formation, A-8 Shrike

 Five of only thirteen made. Previous post

Controlled Steel wrench

 Drop forged in the USA... Controlled Steel was a brand name used by the JP Danielson Toolmaking concern. According to Alloy Artifacts (again) it would probably date to the 1930s, the small 6.5 A  marking refers to the nominal length of the tool- 6.5"- no explanation for the "A".

Moto Guzzi poster

 

This ad was a tribute to the Italian motorcyclist, aviator and would-be Moto Guzzi cofounder Giovanni Ravelli. He seems like a pretty happy guy.

 Dunlop gets their name in there too. Poster by Giorgio Muggiani