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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Friday, December 5, 2025

Slaymaker lock

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   John Slaymaker started his company in 1888 to make locks for the Pennsylvania railway. In 1898, the company started making steam cars, bu...

Jaguar XK150

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Thursday, December 4, 2025

One of my vices is vises. Trojan

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A sad old neglected and abused vise.  According to Garage Journal, Trojan was the economy line for Parker. The ones I see online usually hav...

Flying boats in London

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Short Calcutta 1928 Short Solent 1948 Short Sunderland Every city needs more seaplanes. Film at British Pathé
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Motorcycles on record albums, Living Strings play the Monkees

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  Miniskirt, a Honda 90 and the Monkees, there's the sixties right there.  "Living Strings" was a RCA Victor-created band for ...
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We used to make things in this country #374 DMP Minibikes

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 Lots of manufacturers were getting involved in the motorized leisure market in the late sixties and early seventies. Delhi Metal Products p...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Woodworking Machines in four languages

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  Here's an interesting idea for a book. Definitely from a different era, it consists of 350 pages of examples of woodworking machines w...

Scott Trivan

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  In 1929 Scott motorcycles was working on an air cooled single cylinder 298cc engine to expand into the lightweight market. That motor was ...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Traveler

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   Here's a minor little sharpening stone, sent to me a reader in New Jersey (thanks, Jay!). He said he had found this promotional item ...
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Marion, Indiana, Dec 1958

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 Found on dozens of Tumblrs and below, on Googlemaps in July 2023.
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