Carestream Revolution

I just had a medical adventure. While asleep in the hospital, an X-ray tech came into my room with a flamboyant X-ray machine. It unfolded itself at the end of my bed, took a photo of my chest with a plate behind me, folded itself up and was whisked away. It only took a few minutes. Progress is fine.

https://www.carestream.com/en/us/medical/products/radiography/dr-systems/carestream-drx-revolution

Sidecar Sunday

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B.K. Elliott Drawing Cabinet

B.K Elliot was a long time seating and surveying store in Pittsburgh PA. I can’t find any history of the company but it seems to have disappeared.

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Steamboat Castine

This pretty little 71 foot steamboat was built at Brewer Maine in 1889. For 44 years the boat steamed around Penobscot Bay delivering passenger and freight to various docks, becoming part of shorefront community. In 1935, while working along Vinalhaven in the fog it ran up on a ledge and rolled. People panicked and were thrown in the water. Another steamer was nearby and rescued all but 4. During the night, the wind and waves came up and the boat was soon wrecked.

Coronation Ace ice skates

Assen 1961

The Shepherd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P834fiIXEs

Sidecar Sunday

Thanks, Rolf!

Studebaker Christmas 2018

Airplanes in Formation, Airacobra

Brooks Locomotive

George Abdill; A Locomotive Engineers Album, Bonanza Books 1965

The Brooks Locomotive company built this showy 0-6-0 in 1883 for display for the Chicago Exposition of Railway Appliances.  Without pilot or trailing wheels it doesn't look like a road locomotive, but the drivers seem too big for a switcher. 

 Previous post on Brooks

BCATP, Deseronto

Airborne, A heritage stamp collection, Canada Post

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Deseronto instrument flying school facility, year unknown.

Harper Runabout

The Classic Notorcycle Nov 1985

Competing at the 1922 Scottish 6 Days Trial, these odd little three wheelers were produced and entered by a Mr. R.O. Harper of Manchester. Powered by a 269 cc Villiers engine, neither of them finished. However, the next year R.O. Harper completed the course and won a silver medal.
A run of 250 had been contracted to be built by A V  Roe Aircraft. They were not commercially viable and the order was not repeated.

Sightseeing for motorcycles

Thanks, Rolf!

Norton version of the Triumph TRW

The Classic Motorcycle Dec 18984

In 1953, Norton decided they should try to get some military business. Starting with the Dominator twin, they made a sidevalve top end for it. One prototype was made and tested, installed in a 16H frame, but the British military was already firmly committed to the Triumph TRW.

Jacobs radial exploded display

Columbia electric car 1897

In business from 1899 to 1910, the car was capable of 15 mph and priced as an urban luxury vehicle, costing about 25% more than the gasoline powered Curved Dash Olds.

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Brough Superior Mk 1

From the 1922 Factory catalog 

Wilbur Henry Adams, designer

Industrial design drawing for an Oliver Row Crop 61 Tractor.  circa 1944. 
Wilbur Henry Adams was not one of the better known names of his age but for two decades he worked as a designer, architectect and fine artist. His career was cut short by his death at 52 yrs of age.

First electric portable typewriter

Smith Corona, 1957. Now if we could just get a battery pack for it,

Automobile Enthusiast

1928 BMW project

Couldn't figure what this bike was at first, but it does closely resemble this 1928 BMW. Now, is that a Mercedes in the background? 

Dictionary stand

Back from the days when you looked after books. Made of well-detailed cast iron and oak, the stand protects the spine while compensating for the changing balance of weight forward and back through the book. No makers name on the device.

Sidecar Sunday

Bicycle riding school, 1895

Thanks, Rolf!

Wellington, Grey, & Bruce Railway

September 13, 1870. A momentous occasion at Fergus Ontario, as the line is opened. Parliament chartered the railway in 1869 and - looking ahead! - it was leased to the Great Western Railway for 1000 years. The mainline from Guelph- (through Fergus) to Southampton was completed three years later and in the summer of 1874 had reached Kincardine. The new 168 mile line ran with Great Western equipment, including the locomotive Adam Brown and passenger train shown here in a celebration complete with bunting, marching bands and crowds of celebrants.
The railway line lasted 110 years and was abandoned in the 1980s.

Techno-science.ca

1936 Supercharged Scott

A bit of info here.

Omaha, Nebraska docks, 1865

1971 Bond Bug

The owners of this car drove up from New York State to The British car show in September.

  From the sign; 

Production 1970-74,

 2268 built

 all but six were orange

 Body is fibreglass

 Engine is 850cc about 40 hp. 

Top speed 76 mph.

Assembly in Tamworth UK.

Massey Harris engines, 1914