Blackbeard's ghost's CB750

Weird. I believe the movie dates to 1968, the CB750 wasn’t introduced till a year later.
 

U.S. Royal Balloon Tires, 1935

 Short and to the point...

Sidecar Sunday

 Flying in formation...

Armaloy wrench

  Armaloy was a trademark introduced by the Armstrong Bros. Tool Company of Chicago in 1946 for their new chrome-vanadium steel alloy and so their new premium line of hand tools. The brand was known for its high quality tools. 

The Armstrong brothers had opened up in 1890 as a manufacturer of bicycle parts and wrenches. In 1895 they introduced a toolholder for the lathe which was a commercial success, allowing them to build a new factory. In 1909, they started manufacturing wrenches.

 The company was acquired by Danaher in 1994- which became part of the Apex Tool group in 2010.

 

Dymaxion

 

Arthur Train, Jr. illustrated by Chichi Lasley, The Story of Everyday Things, 1941

Uhhhm Not quite...

War bond parade float

Roger Bilstein and Jay Miller, Aviation in Texas, Texas Monthly Press, 1985

 

Crosley Roamio

Music in a car? Never happen!

 

Norvin!

 John and his dad Jack admiring a Vincent-engine Featherbed special outside of Jack's motorcycle business.

Barcalo specialty wrench

I figured this was another Ford model T- related tool, but Google Lens tells me it was actually made for the Delco Light Co. of Dayton, Ohio, a manufacturer of gas-powered generator systems used to provide electricity to rural farms and homes during the first half of the last century.

 There is a iron cross-type (or keystone?) logo next to the "nut" text (bottom image) that doesn't seem to relate to either company.

And, below, a better view (from an ebay ad) (Thanks Dave)

Ebay

The Grand Prix des Frontières

 The race at Chimay, Belgium was a road course and saw racing from 1926 through 1972. The 1951 event was a non-championship Formula 2 event and was won (for the second time) by Johnny Claes. Not much information to be found on the artist "Lomba".

A find!

 Found! Two pieces of 8 inch angle, 1/2inch wall, 6 inches long. 

"Leave them there, you don't need them. What do you want with more junk?"

 "But think what could I make if I had two big heavy pieces of steel!"

 "Sigh"

I'll think of something...

Spot the differences...

John Feirer and Earl Tetro,  Machine Tool Metalworking, McGraw-Hill, 1961

 Seriously...? This required an illustration? 

We pause for a commercial break and thank Williams for their support. 

Auburn for 1934

The price is indeed affordable, the average income in the US was about $946 in 1934.
 

Propeller for the Queen Mary

  One of four propellers destined for the liner Queen Mary. Each propeller was 20 feet in diameter, made of bronze and weighed 35 tons, poured in one shot, I presume... Those guys trust the rigging more than I do.
 

"Hey, Joe" Gelatin silver print, 1959

Artist,  Jan Saudek (born 1935).   Saudek made many copies, some hand-tinted, from 1959 into the 80s.

Two stroke Jimmy diesel

 No action without the supercharger.

Sidecar Sunday

 Drama on a 24 hour rally. No one died.

Qualikraft wrench

  Quali-kraft was a Japanese made tool brand made for the North American department store trade, the wrench looks and feels like a quality item.  I'm not sure about the odd-shaped jaw cutouts, it looks like they are trying to contact the flats of the nut instead of the corners, and also a feature to "ratchet" the wrench on the nut. And it's "patent pending".

 

Past Concept Cars of the Future! 1954 Pontiac Bonneville Special

A Corvette by any other name... It was not put into production...

 

Scintillators and Geiger counters

 Buy now! (1955) Atomics are the future!

Hesketh wrench

 These wouldn't turn up very often! Unless it was a part of the toolkit of the low mileage Hesketh you bought... Thanks, Derek!

McEvoy Vtwins 1928

 Those long strokes are expensive!

One of my vices is vises, a broken one

Seen on Marketplace. Rather disappointing for something that doesn't look very old or misused... I expect this is shoddy material rather than misuse?

 

NR750 cutaway

 The oval piston street bike. Surely, one of the most exotic production vehicles of all time. Honda made 300 and I bet very few were ever ridden more than a few miles. Said to be the inspiration for the styling of the Ducati 916.

Know your self threading screws...

No mention of the self drilling option.

 

Land yacht

 Wretched excess... Longer, lower, wider, mostly longer...

Stationary steam engine

 Look at those castings. No human included for scale but that's an impressive hunk of iron.

Blowing engine - Wikipedia 

Longines poster; The measure of time

Another great poster from the European art deco era of graphic design. 

Artist: René Bleuer

Sidecar Sunday, missed opportunity

  Back in the 1980s when everyone was overreacting about the 3wheel ATCs, Missile Engineering offered a two wheel conversion kit to convert the machines into proper two wheelers. I never saw the kit back in the day, but to me an obvious project would be to utilize that now-underemployed third wheel to create a sidecar rig for the machine. A bit tongue-in-cheek perhaps, but I wonder if anyone ever did.

Drew discovered that Dirt Wheels tested the machine in 1989 and sent me this. Link here.

 

Sidecar Sunday

 

The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star

 I found this picture of a Constellation with radomes in an old Popular Electronics magazine, figured it must have been an artist's rendition of someone's fantasy but nope, there are lots of better pictures online.

 The Navy actually ordered 142 of these aircraft and used them for all sorts of early warning duties over the years. They were in service from 1949 till the mid seventies with one remaining- on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola.

Lathe vs Milling machine

The message is clear, nerds run lathes but cool, tough guys run mills.

John Feirer and Earl Tetro,  Machine Tool Metalworking, McGraw-Hill, 1961