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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Seemed like a great idea at the time...

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Link belts

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The Teach Yourself books  A E Peatfield,  Engineering Components and Materials. The English Engineering Press, 1951  Still around today... ...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Baldwin Duckworth chain

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1948  Care and lubrication here.   History of Baldwin Duckworth here .

Unnecessary cross section view?

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Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice , American Technical Society, Vol 1, 1903  The mystery of vise mechanisms revealed! No one could have kno...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

The Future of Transportation!

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Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938  But hadn't we already eliminated Zeppelins a few years earlier?
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Long live the Offenhauser engine!

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Artist; Vic Berris   The Offy 4 cylinder racing engine was designed in the twenties by Fred Offenhauser and Harry Miller of Miller Racing a...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

We used to make things in this country #379 Bricks

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 Domtar (Dominion Tar and Chemical Co.) is a large paper and forestry product company that was in the brick business through most of the 20t...

Tempo Hanseat

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    I found reference to this oddball in an old book, the internet sent me to this blog,  Project Tempo .  It's a three wheel delivery t...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Cunningham C-4R

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  Briggs Cunningham in the C-4R at LeMans in 1954. The car was built in 1952 for use at LeMans and was retired in 1956, its best result was...

Tooling display

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  Cincinnati Universal cutter and tool grinder. Just the thing for a machine shop that needs a full time dedicated tool sharpener. Not sure ...
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