Airplane engine parts

Cyril Donaldson and George LeCain, Tool Design, Second edition, McGraw Hill, 1957

 Interesting, the mix of fractional and decimal measurements.

Donington racing, 1935

 Another candidate for a T shirt illustration...

Waterbury Farrel double action press

  Another long lost production machine manufacturing equipment company, I thought when I saw this image of a double action press in a 1919 machinery book. The text went on to explain the pressing process but I was more interested in the company. 

 The Farrel foundry started business in 1851, in 1880 the company was reorganized as the Waterbury Farrel company making various metal working machines for industry. The company had a good run till it was acquired by Textron in 1960 and moved to Cheshire Conn. where it was consolidated with Jones and Lamson Machine. The Jones and Lamson portion got out of the business in 1993 and in 1994 Waterbury Farrel purchased the Canadian branch of the bankrupt Wean Inc. company of Pittsburgh. Waterbury Farrel then up and moved to Brampton, Ontario where they now manufacture ammunition and ammunition-manufacturing production lines as well as presses and rolling mills. The NAFTA Trade Agreement was signed Jan 1 1994, so that may have been a factor in the move? Odd, because everyone else went to Mexico!

Vickers Vernon transport

This bulbous transport plane was introduced in 1921, the 11-passenger aircraft had a short life, being replaced by the larger but similar Vickers Victoria. Only 55 were built in total, all were scrapped. 

 

Fiat 500 Giardiniera

  Here's a Dutch pamphlet for the Fiat 500 Gardener (sounds better in Italian).  Four people with luggage seems optimistic, and the cutaway view doesn't provide much more info on how everything fits. 

Minimal maintenance, just 2 lubrication points.

 

Billings Life-Time M-2022 wrench

This appears to be a tappet wrench, 1/2" on one end, 5/16" on the other. made by Billings and Spencer probably in the 1930s. No information turns up when I do a Google search. According to Alloy Artifacts, the Triangle B logo was registered in 1905, The Life-Time brand name 1928.

 

Monday Mystery, a powered sieve? (Repost)

We posted this 6 years ago, the owner of this model has still not found any info.  We'll repost, hopefully we've accumulated some new readers with different knowledge and experience.

 Here's an interesting device. The images are of a very nicely made model about a foot long. By the quality and detail it could be a patent model or possibly a salesman's model? 

 But what is it a model of? By the pulleys, it looks like it is powered by flat belts and the troughs (tubs) with perforated bottoms point to a production sieving device of some sort? Or a washing machine? Any ideas welcomed!

Update; More images. 

This time with the inner tubs in the raised position. It appears the belts power the rotating mechanisms which also have hand cranks on the offside. The owner tells me the model is actually a foot and a half long, solid brass, beautifully built.  He also mentions that he had suggestions 30 years ago that it might be a model of part of a metal-plating process machine but do the plated bits just get dumped out onto a tray each time? And also would the tubs, being metal,  not get plated themselves? 

F N Motorcycles 1925

   "Only the shadow knows...+, said the passenger, applying her lipstick. Strange poster by Italian designer and artist Marcello Nizzoli
 Leon Houard was apparently the motrocycle dealer.

Sidecar Sunday

This could be a "we used to make things here..." Hannigan started in Oakville Ontario but  moved to Kentucky some decades ago..

I never did understand the concept of fringe...

 

Not for legal trade...

No manufacturers name, unfortunately.