Sidecar Sunday

 

Business opportunity

 

Seen along the north shore of the StLawrence river. past Tadoussac.

  Just the thing for a firewood business!  More than just for work, unhook that laboursaving trailer/grapple thingy and cut loose with that industrial snow machine.

The Driver Line Drill press

 

  Nice old drill press seen at Liberty Tool in Maine. The "Driver Line" logo refers to a popular, lower-priced line of shop machinery manufactured by the Walker-Turner Company during the 1930s and 1940s.  

Driver line catalog at Vintagemachinery.org

Victor wrench

Thanks, Kevan!

 

 Another name new to me.  This wrench isn’t old, it’s manufactured by Victor Tools in Punjab, India, a global hand tool manufacturer established in 1954. The family-owned enterprise is still operating, designing and drop-forging a wide variety of wrenches and pliers for various markets. Company website here.

 

Drouin supercharger

  Want to supercharge your Norton twin?  Here's an interesting project and period piece for someone.  Drouin Mfg. of Massachusetts made this kit in the early seventies for the Commando and later Harley and Honda 750. Reputed to give 90 hp, I suspect the engine internals suffered. Here's a website devoted to the kit. 

 Drouin wasn't the only source for supercharging, Alf Hagon's setup below.

Motorcycle Mechanics, Apr 1967

Harley Davidson on snow

 

Another artefact from the Log Drivers museum. The AMF days…

KTM in 1966

 You’ve come a long way. Baby!

We used to make things here. Precision saw Co.

 

When I saw this. I thought it was a reciprocating saw. Precision Saw Co. was one of the world's first manufacturers of one-man chainsaws It was founded in Montreal in 1946. 

More info  when I can do some searching-NOT on my phone.

 

The Monstrosity

 Found in a 1966 Cycle World magazine, this custom was the work of one Speedy Babs. Starting with an Indian four frame, he added telescopic forks from an Indian Arrow. Perhaps anticipating Honda's CB750, the engine was a repurposed McCulloch flat four two stroke intended for a target drone. The engine is coupled to a BMW transmission and driveshaft. He apparently said he built it as a lark and named it "the Monstrosity". No word on how well it worked...

“My favorite tool”.

 

 

  We visited the “Log driver museum” in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs,  operated by a 82 year old self-described “last remaining log driver”. He has amassed a large amount of random stuff from those days. Fun and interesting guy, interesting place.