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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Leon Lauthier Stayer

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  In bicycle racing, Staying is an event where a bicyclist pedals in the slipstream of a pacer- a motorcycle or car- in an attempt to obtain...

Lovely little shooter

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Monday, November 24, 2025

Ariel Leader, 1958

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  Brand new in 1958, discontinued in 1965. Might have been better as a 350?
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Model airplane display

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Loc.gov  Model airplanes decorate the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station in Chicago, Feb 1943, signifying the huge number of a...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Welding lesson

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Jan '85 Classic Bike    The caption indicates that this a welding demonstration at the BSA factory in 1952. The Golden Flash plunger fra...
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Sidecar Sunday

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Suzuki power  
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Saturday, November 22, 2025

Frazer & Jones

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    I thought this was just another wrench from a long-gone 19th century agricultural equipment manufacturer, it's good to see that Fraz...

Hoffar homebuilt sea plane

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 In 1917 Vancouver boatbuilders James and Henry Hoffar built this seaplane. Not too many details but it apparently flew successfully but was...
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First advertised wireless broadcast

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Dame Nellie Melba, the famous Australian prima donna broadcasts from the Marconi works in Chelmsford England on June 15th 1920.  Dramatizati...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Steel castings

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Flickr  Locomotive 576,  Nashvillesteam .org Tank encyclopedia I was recently catching up on the Pennsylvania Railroad  T1 Trust  steam engi...
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