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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Friday, July 31, 2026

Tank maintenance, 1918

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 A view of the Tank Corps Central Workshop at Teneur, France, located about 50 km from the front lines, with tanks on railway cars in the ba...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Airplane engine parts

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Cyril Donaldson and George LeCain, Tool Design, Second edition , McGraw Hill, 1957   I nteresting, the mix of fractional and decimal measure...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Donington racing, 1935

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  Another candidate for a T shirt illustration...
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Waterbury Farrel double action press

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  Another long lost production machine manufacturing equipment company, I thought when I saw this image of a double action press in a 1919 m...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Vickers Vernon transport

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This bulbous transport plane was introduced in 1921, the 11-passenger aircraft had a short life, being replaced by the larger but similar Vi...
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Fiat 500 Giardiniera

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  Here's a Dutch pamphlet for the Fiat 500 Gardener (sounds better in Italian).  Four people with luggage seems optimistic, and the cuta...
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Monday, July 27, 2026

Billings Life-Time M-2022 wrench

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This appears to be a tappet wrench, 1/2" on one end, 5/16" on the other. made by Billings and Spencer probably in the 1930s. No in...
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Monday Mystery, a powered sieve? (Repost)

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We posted this 6 years ago, the owner of this model has still not found any info.  We'll repost, hopefully we've accumulated some ne...
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Sunday, July 26, 2026

F N Motorcycles 1925

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   "Only the shadow knows...+, said the passenger, applying her lipstick. Strange poster by Italian designer and artist  Marcello Nizzo...
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Sidecar Sunday

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This could be a "we used to make things here..." Hannigan started in Oakville Ontario but  moved to Kentucky some decades ago.. I ...
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