Bridgeport Boyscout hatchet

Nice tool with one piece head and handle with a riveted wooden handle. I found a complete history here. 

Car-Skin autocare

This seems to be a auto care product company around in the fifties and sixties. Not much more online...

 

Monday Mystery 2. Grille

I don't recognize the logo, a 8 pointed star above a running dog, wolf? horse? The grill is long and narrow, probably 2 1/2 feet long. Wonder what it is from?

 And... solved! Apparently a 1940 Cadillac Lasalle. Quite an impressive front end. (Thanks! to the guys in the comments)

Monday Mystery leatherworking tool?

Might be a leatherworking tool to mark out parallel lines of stitches? I don't know. Thoughts?

 

We used to make things in this country; #368 Londontoy

 Londontoy was a part of Webster Air Products of London Ontario. Previous post here. The company was started to build air compressors, spray guns and associated equipment, but during WW2, they opened a subsidiary to make diecast toy cars, trucks etc. Another site attributed this to the restrictions on imports of non-essential items during the war which included children's toys. Webster was doing a lot of zinc die casting and the toys were a good use for the scrap. Londontoy lasted till 1949.

 This airplane No 11 is identified as a Hawker Hurricane which is clearly not. Any guesses to what it actually is? 

 A bit of regret... I found this today at an antique fair and did not buy it but now I feel as though I have to collect the whole set! But it was $30....

Sidecar Sunday

We found this 1913 catalog for the Compeer Motor Carriage Co. on the LiveAuctioneers website. I'm not familiar with the company but it looks like a must-have for any sidecar history fan. 

 

 

Bemis & Call wrench adjustable wrench

Another tool you don't buy because its going to be useful.

Before and after

 I did a double take when I saw this. No way someone would have built a bridge to hoist an old Peter Witt streetcar up on a bridge... That's well done...

The brief.

Cast aluminum bucket opener

Just found this at an antique market. Looks like a pretty clever device but it looked pretty familiar. It looks like a copy of one of the first projects I worked on after I graduated from design school in 1990.  Previous post here.

 I just gotta wonder, the text "patent  35920" leads me nowhere.

 

Edmund Fitzgerald

 You know the song.... Gordon Lightfoot.