Sidecar Sunday

 What's so funny?

Another job you may not want to do; armature winder

 

Imperial Airways 1935

  Poster for Imperial Airways by British artist and designer Theyre Lee-Elliott. The stylized, streamlined shapes come from his famous "Speedbird" emblem of 1932, which was adopted by BOAC after they purchased Imperial Airways in 1939 and is still being used by its successor, British Airways.

 

Standard wire gauge

 No name on this, nothing at all on the back, but a handy little thing to have lying in the bottom of your tool box I guess...

Stutz Bearcat 1920

 Just the thing for the man about town in that time...

Edmunds custom heads

  Eddie Edmunds was a mechanic in Portland, Oregon in the 1930s when he started developing and manufacturing intake manifolds and performance heads. After several years of manufacturing there he moved to Southern California where there were more mold makers and aluminum casting. He made these parts for many engines but eventually went bankrupt in the late 1940s. It's a wonder these parts still turn up. After that his focus changed to installing air conditioning units in cars. Apparently, he passed away in 1969.

Siren Fire chief car

Another windup car by Louis Marx, from the 1930s.

 

Steam Yacht Lyndonia

  A picture to hang in the mancave. The Lyndonia was a yacht built for Cyrus Curtis of the Curtis Publishing Company of Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies Home Journal fame. It was only steam powered for 5 years, the steam engine was replaced with diesel engines in 1925. 

The vessel was acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1941 and commissioned as the USS Southern Seas (PY-32). While serving in the Pacific theatre it was unfortunately sunk during a typhoon off Okinawa on October 9, 1945, with the loss of 13 crew members. 

From the Facebook USS Southern Seas group. Interesting reading..

Ford 5-Z-829 wrench

 Another Ford Model T tool. The left end is for adjusting the bands in the transmission and the right end fits the oil pan drain bolt.

One of my vices is vises, Armstrong Pipe Vice

 

  Frank Armstrong and Henry House started working in the sewing machine factories in Bridgeport Conn but formed their own company in 1870, making steam fitting tools and equipment. House soon left, Armstrong continued the company and in 1882 introduced this pipe vise under  U.S. Patent No. 269,141 featuring the hinged yoke and hardened steel jaws. The company thrived during the steam era and was around at least into the 1950s.