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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Renovation solutions

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 Here's a hard one. A heritage house comes up for sale and you want it. Price is right but it's rough, nothing is near code... 2nd f...

Sidecar Sunday

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No, that's not a Zeppelin.  When gasoline got scarce during both world wars, there was a lot of development on wood and coal gas as fuel...
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Saturday, March 28, 2026

Armstrong fork, 1955

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This fork was presented as an alternative to telescopic or Earles forks as manufacturers moved away from girders. Honda stepthroughs used a ...
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Cast iron bench

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Nice lines on this cast iron bench. It looks vintage, or at least old enough for the wood to rot. No name cast in that I could see so maybe ...
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Friday, March 27, 2026

We used to make things in this country, #378 Eskiloos boots

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Eskiloos were a specialized fashionable line of waterproof, fleece-lined boots produced by Uniroyal (often under the "Dominion Rubber...
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How to make a lathe

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 We were talking about the proliferation of lathe manufacturers at the turn of the last century, this Lindsay books reprint of a 1920 South ...
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Bugatti 35C

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 1928 Bugatti 35C, known as ‘Genie, from the Alan Haworth collection.    The car was sold to John Bentley in 1989 and as of 2019 is owned by...
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Save wheat, save meat

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  I've read lots about the severe hardship experienced by England after WW2, export or die, gas rations etc., but wasn't aware there...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Arnstrong Siddeley service card, 1927

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 A handy chart for the home garage. If I read the chart correctly, the driver did 15,760 miles that year with only a speedo cable failure.

Motorcyclist magazine Feb 1943

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Tough publishing a motorcycle magazine during wartime, just 16 pages. Two paid ads, one is for war bonds. A few classified ads, including on...
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