For sale at a vintage building material shop in Cobourg, this is a nice old stodgy and upright car. The two door body style is nice, the automatic transmission is probably somewhat rare. Definitely a project car for someone, maybe a big project. Body needs work, upholstery too.
Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.
with apologies to Ogden Nash...
Thursday, March 28, 2024
1962 Mercedes Benz 200
For sale at a vintage building material shop in Cobourg, this is a nice old stodgy and upright car. The two door body style is nice, the automatic transmission is probably somewhat rare. Definitely a project car for someone, maybe a big project. Body needs work, upholstery too.
Kronan chisel, Eskilstuna
This a fine socket chisel found locally, It's difficult to read but the name Kronan appears on the underside, there is little information to be found on that company. Also, along with Made in Sweden, is the steelworking city name, Eskilstuna, which seems to appear on many Swedish-made tools.
If this tool is put back into service, the edge will need attention.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Goodyear motorcycle tires
Collaro record changer
The absolute limit of luxury, no need to get off the couch for hours as your records change themselves! (of course you have to pre-stack them yourself... and no replays)
The Rockbar Corp. name is long gone, it's now the name of a bar in the village, Collaro was a British company that was absorbed by Magnavox in 1962.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Clipper Great Republic
Canadian-born Donald Kay started shipbuilding in 1840. He built seven ships in partnership with others, then moved to Boston to start his own shipyard where he designed and built many successful and record-breaking clipper ships. The 29th ship built at the Boston yard was the Great Republic which was launched in October of 1853. At 335 feet long, it was the largest clipper ship ever made. After testing, it sailed to New York City to be laded for a trip to Liverpool. After it was loaded, a fire broke out at a nearby bakery which spread to the docks and set fire to a number of boats including the Great Republic, which burned to the waterline and was considered a total loss. It was said that Donald MacKay never really got over it.
The sunken hulk was bought by Captain Nathaniel Palmer who had it rebuilt at the shipyard A.A. Low and Bros. The ship was built up in a different plan than the original, 3 decks instead of 4 and 42 sails instead of the original 50, on shorter masts. The ship then had a good career till in 1872 a hurricane off Bermuda damaged it badly enough that it was abandoned at sea and lost.
Richard C. MacKay, Donald MacKay and His Famous Sailing Ships, Dover Publications, 1995 |
Mickey's Air Mail
Nice little rubber airplane toy, by this point in history the propeller blades are gone and pilot Donald Duck has lost his head, but he kinda spoiled the lines anyway...
Etsy |
Monday, March 25, 2024
Maybach SW38 Streamline
In the 1930s there was much development in aerodynamics for highspeed automobile travel. In 1938 Fulda tires of Germany commissioned Dörr & Schreck to build a streamlined body on the conventional Maybach SW 38. With the help of aerodynamicist Baron Reinhard Koenig-Fachsenfeld this car was designed, built and introduced in 1939. Powered by the Maybach 3.8 litre six, it was capable of over 200 kph. It was little used due to the outbreak of WW2, and the car disappeared either during the war or shortly thereafter.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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