Vard hydraulic fork

 Vard was a supplier of landing gear to the aviation industry during WW2, after the war they applied their expertise to making an aftermarket telescopic fork for motorcycles. More here,  

Sidecar Sunday

 

Hoggson & Pettis conductors punch

 

  Hoggson & Pettis was more known for their Sweetland patent lathe chuck but Samuel Hoggson started the company in 1848 to make stencils, stamping and cutting dies. When Pettit joined the company in 1878, the chuck was added to the product line. A quick google brings up a number of other products, hole punches, leather marking wheels, a typewriter and this conductor's ticket punch. The company is said to have ben in business till at least 1918.

ISDT BMW 1967

 The engine seems to be lifted in the frame and pretty sure that's a Yamaha tank.

We used to make things in this country #375 Massey Harris pressure sprayer

 

Infantometer

Modern medicine can't thank Dr. Dumay enough for this device to accurately measure the height (or length) of a baby lying down. The next thing is to consider how to pronounce the word. Is it In-FANT-o-meter or Infan-TOM-a-ter?

 

Renold Chain

Imaginative image. And another T shirt candidate.

Cast iron "Bully Beef" can opener

This cast iron can opener was supplied with cans of corned beef from Britain, being a play on the nickname of the product "bully beef". It was introduced in the mid 1860s and carried on till the 1930s.

 

One of my vices is vises, Tecomaster

Tecomaster was the house brand of the T. Eaton Company chain of department stores, the name derived from Timothy Eaton Co. The brand was used from the 1950s through the seventies, though a Fall Winter catalog from 1975 doesn't mention the name. The vise would have been sourced from a contract manufacturer, this 3" vise looks suspiciously like one from Rae.

 

Packard Torsion-Level suspension, 1955

 Packard's self leveling suspension, it wasn't enough, they staggered through a year or two more, closed the doors in 1958.

 Meanwhile, across the pond, The Citroen DS with hydropneumatic suspension was also introduced in 1955.