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

 Yet another decorative 2 inch cast clamp. A tag suggested it was an old clamp used in quilting. Not sure, is the slot for a belt somehow?

 Displayed at a local antique market, this intriguingly shaped thing wasn't identified. It's all metal and about 3 feet in diameter....

 Just a little anvil from the Montgomery Ward line of hobby level tools. The anvil has the same styling licks as their vises of the time.  

Wartime R75 BMW with drive to sidecar wheel . The helmet shaped thing on the tank is an air filter. 18,000 units were made before production...

  How do you create two separate airtight crankcase chambers with an inline twin throw crankshaft. Most Japanese engines were simple horizon...

 After WW2 Packard knew they had to develop an engine to replace their straight 8 and by 1949 they had settled on a cast iron V8 of 269 cu i...

 A cute little chainsaw from the 1960s. Ohlsson and Rice were manufacturers of a line of tools, utilizing a 22 cc 3/4 hp gas engine as an in...

Louis Jensen and William Brazier,  Related Science for Automotive Trades. Delmar Pub. 1958  The artist must have had fun making this unusual...

Joan and Thomas Gandy, T he Mississippi Steamboat Era in historic photographs , Dover Pub. 1987   Sailing down the Mississippi river on Octo...

 One of famed designer Raymond Loewy's first automotive designs, the Aerodynamic line was introduced in 1934, the cars featured dramatic...