Ingenuity at work

This is a Canadian-made Connor wringer washer, popular in the 1940s and 50s, outfitted with a smaller tub and a wooden paddle arrangement to churn butter. Anything to reduce the workload of the farm wife!

 

Museum display

  William George Barker was Canada's fourth highest scoring ace in WW1 at 50 victories. This entry was found in a catalog of the Canadian War Museum in 1967 when it was located on Sussex St. in Ottawa.  I don't remember seeing this aircraft at the new War Museum building constructed on the LeBreton flats, but it is listed as a display. 

One of my vices is vises, a Grizzly?

Thanks, Arthur!

 Not sure of the pedigree of this heavily used bench vise, I suspect it's an older Taiwanese import, just doing what it was intended for...

Creative shingling

Just a nice little small town church.. but whoever designed it (probably a local carpenter) thought he would add a nice complicated curved back end to the roof, not as easy as it seems. The guy doing the shingles probably cursed him up and down for that decision. 

 

Sidecar? Sunday

 

Not sure what’s going on here, She might be in some sort of “sociable” or maybe a car chassis. Anyways, she’s looking out at the camera with a very inviting look… 

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