Boston-Maine Airways

  This is the showy side of a luggage label for Boston-Maine Airways. Boston-Maine Airways was established in 1931 by the Boston and Maine Railroad in partnership with National Airways, eventually evolving into Northeast Airlines. Northeast merged with Delta in 1972.

  The "Flying Yankee" name was borrowed from the streamlined diesel passenger train operated by the Boston & Maine and Maine Central railroads during the mid-1930s.

Vintage wood plane, convex

  This unidentified, possibly homemade, wood plane has a profile I've not seen before, with multiple passes it would plane out a tapered concave slot such as might be found on an eavestrough.  Interesting piece for someone's collection.

Oregon Wood Grenade

  This solid hunk of cone-shaped aluminum was intended to be pounded into a log to split it in multiple directions. I like the portability compared to steel but I wonder how soon the head would mushroom over in elm or other hardwood.

Tootsietoy panel delivery truck

Shame about the kustom by kid paint scheme, but it's in pretty good condition otherwise,despite the eggshell-like zinc diecast body...This panel was part of a line of diecast toy vehicles produced by Dowst Brothers in Chicago in the post WW2 era. 

 

Boeing 747 postcard, 1971

 

The 747 fleet served El Al from 1971 to Nov 2019.

  Farewell video.

Philips Dyno flashlight

  Here's a fun little device, a pump action flywheel-powered dynamo light (or squeeze flashlight). The fun goes out of it quick, as the pump handle has to be actuated almost continuously. The bulb lens cover is missing on this one.

 According to Wikipedia these were made in occupied Netherlands during the war.

 

Stanley Marsh no 100 mItre box

   Here's the king of miter boxes seen at Liberty Tool in Maine. I thought it was just a big solid professional miter clamp, turns out it's missing the back saw. Bottom image shows a  complete unit, similar but smaller, at another site. Here's another site showing the machine being used.

 

Toolsquirrel

Sidecar Sunday Car and sidecar in Uruguay

 

  Here are a series of stills taken from a video on Youtube. No explanation as this sequence was playing and we have no idea what the heck this is all about. Our friend Marshall sent me this link about a subject we know littke about...The Uruguay car industry.

 Uruguay Once Built Its Own Cars

Bonneville besuty

 

  Beautiful car but I see “Bonneville” six places on the body. Identity crisis?

Fleet 6328 wrench

 

  For some reason there are no “Fleet tool” markings on this wrench (nothing at all on the back) but the 6328 number identifies it as a Fleet made by Penens of Chicago, later acquired by Plomb. Still manufactured in the USA, Fleet was an economy line sold by the company in the 1950s.