sidecar Sunday

 Actor Keenan Wynn riding his Triumph motorcycle with actress Patti Chandler in the sidecar. Photo snapped on the set of the 1964 feature film Bikini Beach. 

Canadian Nation Railway chisel

We know who owned this chisel but who made it? What does "US" in raised letters signify?

 

Ron Wood Rotax dirt tracker, 1988

Not sure where the image was found. I'd frame this and hang it on the wall.

Colon Locomotive of the Panama Railroad

 The Portland Locomotive Works built this unusual 4 wheel tank steam engine for the Panama Railroad in 1865. The controls were mounted on the left and for some reason the firebox door is located on the right side next to the man posing on the locomotve. Where the fuel was carried is not clear. The gauge was 5 feet, driver diameter 42" with cylinders of 12 x 18".

Brillant wood plane

A kind of toy-like wood plane, painted red and green, this is made by Kunz of Germany, postwar. This one is also badged with the Hoppe name. 

It is described online as a general purpose plane for occasional coarse work like planing a door or similar, it does not get a lot of love among plane aficionados.

 

Reading a caliper in 1919

Modern Shop Practice,  American Technical Society, 1919
Vol 1 Machine Shop Practice Production Manufacturing

 

Model K Chassis, Winton motor carriage

Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice, American Technical Society, 1907

 

We used to make things in this country #366, 466 de Havilland Otters

 Celebrating the company's (and Canada's) involvement in the Middle East peacekeeping duties. 

466 Otters were built between 1952 and 1967.

1932 Pierce Arrow

$3295 in 1930 translates to about $64000 today. Doesn't seem like a lot of money for the car.

 

Sterling linen tape measure

 These "Sterling" cloth tapes were produced by the Lufkin company through the 1940s, they were sold alongside the steel measuring tape they introduced in 1890.  Previous Lufkin post here.