Norton Commando, 1969

 Norton advertising before the Norton Girl campaign. Incidentally, it was BSA that has the inside cover cheesecake shot that issue.

Maxda RX7, 1978

 

FIM roadracing,1950

Three four cylinder 500cc Gilera racers cornering together in this 1950 shot.  Straight pipes at 10,000 rpm, imagine the sound... 

Geoff Duke finished second in the championship on his Norton Manx single.

Yamaha RD60

 While Quebec got the FS1E Quebecois moped, the rest of the country got a real motorcycle, the 55cc 5 speed RD-60.

Broken axle

Ron Ziel and George Foster, Steel rails to the sunrise, Hawthorne Books, 1965

 Long Island Railroad locomotive #16 sits stranded along the line on July 22 1915 when the middle driver axle broke, Fortunately the engine did not derail and there were no injuries, but the bent right hand side connecting rod ensures it's not going anywhere without help.  An accident like this was bound to attract a crowd of sightseers who made sure they were in the photograph.

Unknown use pliers

Looks like it may be some medical tool, for some unpleasant use.

Cardon Tools

 

Convair 880

 This 110 seat airliner was Convair's entry in competition to the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC8. Its main selling point was to be its superior speed- over 600 mph. The 880 was originally named the Convair 600, both names referring to its top speed of 600 mph or less obvious, 880 ft/sec.

 Only 65 were built between 1959 and 1962 and the experience took Convair out of the airliner business. Imaginative graphics in this ad though....

Answer to a question that shouldn't have been asked

 No explanation given.

Firestone, 1925

Good political statement from Harvey up top, some two-country advertising and a note at the bottom that mentions the new-in-1922 Canadian branch.

The illustration is nicely done, with some squiggles in the lower left that could almost be a signature...  

Roger Fenton photographs, Crimea, 1855

These photos were taken by Roger Fenton, a very early photographer and depict probably the first photos of war. Above is Ordnance Wharf at Balaklava, which was the small fishing port that the British used to supply their army at the Siege of Sevastopol, then as now, the main important thing about ammunition is quantity.

 Below is the photograph of the "Valley of Death" as the British soldiers called it, because of the constant shelling. Mr. Fenton tweaked the name to the more biblical "Valley of the Shadow of Death".

 This photo is the subject of some controversy as there seems to be another picture with different arrangements and quantities of cannonballs, was the photograph faked? More here.

 Valley of the Shadow of death.