Sidecar Sunday

Carlisle motorcycle tires

 Sadly, Carlisle quit making tires for motorcycles at some point but is still in business making them for agriculture and ATVs... 

Blacksmithing in Innisfail, Alberta

Heather Robertson, Salt of the Earth, James Lorimer Pub., 1974

 Undated, but it could be any time period... I wish I could read what is on "clearance" on the sign between them.

One of my vices is vises, Hercules

I've seen various tools at antique stores with the Hercules, Canada logo, but cannot find any information on the company.

 

Pascal Hardware ad in Sherbrooke Daily Record

Nuffield tractor grille

Actual model unknown, The British Motor Corporation  badge would date the tractor to between 1952 when the company was formed and 1966 when they changed their name to British Motor Holdings.

 

1955 Pontiac

Just a nice plain and classy automobile in the 'hood...

Kawasaki H1

 Kawasaki was feeling pretty cocky in 1971.

Better Boating magazine

 Better Boating was a Canadian magazine that ran from 1964 to 1976. Not a lot of information online.

Tricart 1971

These seem to be products of a recreational vehicle division of Sperry Rand. I don't think i ever saw one of these machines back in the day. The Hank Syverson character in the ad is a nice touch.

I found this bit of SPD Sperry Rand history on the 6x6 forum;

Bill Dohl was the Zedelgem [NH plant in Belgium] operation manager (he originally was a service dept head or other). Quickly ----- he was replaced and returned to New Holland after about 3 years there. Management had to find something for him to do and there was a push from New York [Sperry headquarters] for NH to diversify. Bill was put in charge of this quest. Many things were looked at - decision was recreational vehicles and products. He initiated a search for opportunities. Since Fiberglass of Ohio was looking for growth and had this 3-wheeler, which was one of many things looked at, including snowmobiles, 4-wheelers, water-type devices other than boats, bicycles, skis (minibike type, Larry Halls had one he built) early sea doos, paragliders, 6-wheelers and the list goes on. To make a shorter story,6-wheelers and the Tricart were pursued. There were several 6-wheelers available but early on it was decided to design our own. At the same time negotiations were started to get the 3-wheeler. This was done by NH purchasing and employing all of Franklin Moore's (FofO) employees (including John Plessinger). Then SPD was created to pursue this market. I started working on the 6-wheeler, Larry Halls worked the 3-wheeler. We both worked with John P to finalize design details. At the same time Sperry was working on a metal detector (weapons) for the airline industry. New York decided that the weapon detector should be vertically integrated and FofO was the choice to produce the fiberglass side panels which were the heart of it. New York also decided a top of the line fiberglass manufacturing facility was required. Such a facility was fast tracked with one of Sperry Corp construction outfits. Construction started immediately and was to be open by mid spring. Ralph Mentzer from NH facilities was in charge under Bob Ressler and Clarence Binkley. This was a state of the art hand/spray facility. Included a completely new building huge!!! Joe Shriver, Dick Hebbe, Larry Ruble, Earl Moats, Phil Buzzard, Jay Brubaker, Vince Hemmings, Larry Estes joined the pack. We pretty much all moved shortly to Ohio commuting every three weekends back to NH until spring. Larry Halls continued at New Holland but elected not to go to Ohio. We suffered a major setback in early spring with the fire in the old cannery FofO worked out of as they built the new building. Joe and Larry Estes worked on snowmobiles and machines plus a bunch of lawn and garden stuff. I also worked on a two track industrial snow machine which was to compete with Bombardier. We all had a good time at SPD and were sad to see it end.  

Superex Sparkplug wench set

One of my local antique stores had a whole display of these Made-in-Japan Superex spark plug ratchet sets, these used to be everywhere cheap tools were sold. 

  I suspect the set dates to the sixties. I don't need more 13/16" sockets, I took pictures and moved on...

It appears the company is still in business selling automotive tools and accessories.