Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

L S Starrett's first invention

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Monday, March 9, 2026

Ladish Co. Brantford wrench

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  This aluminum wrench was apparently intended for stainless fittings manufactured by the Ladish Co. in Brantford Ontario as part of their t...

Lucas lighting kit 1920s

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  If you owned a motorcycle in England in the 1920s, and wanted lights, there was a acetylene gas lighting kit available from Halfords (a mo...
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Sunday, March 8, 2026

Heartfelt thanks!

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Well, would you look at that...  Ten million views. Sure, it's taken more than a decade, and I know these days there are people that can...
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Sidecar Sunday

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Folk art.   
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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Dunlop, 1967

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 "Crummy" is a technical term...
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Yachting Magazine, January, 1938

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 Yachting, then as now, "If you have to ask, sir..."
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Friday, March 6, 2026

Adel Precision Products

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I'm not sure what the decorative RCMP uniform had to do with an aircraft fastener company in Burbank, California in 1942, but it must ha...
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Glamour puss

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Ken W Purdy,  The Kings of the Road,  Little, Brown and Company 1952 It appears that the door seams, fender skirt and fender vent door have ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

M1 Carbine

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 By early WW2 there was an awareness that the full size military cartridge was overly powerful and the rifles ungainly. The Germans develope...
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