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

The Classic Motor Cycle,  April 1986

But did those fins need accentuating?  

 Here's an interesting speed handle made by a Canadian company famously known as the only manufacturer of wrenches and hand tools in Can...

Says easy to own, but in 1938, minimum wage in the US was 25¢ an hour and the average hourly wage was 55¢ an hour. I expect not many of thes...

 From a book on general technology as it looked in 1986. Wow that's 40 years ago! Ford had just purchased New Holland. The Ford-New Holl...

  A nice cutaway of the inline twin said to be inspired by the prewar BMW twins...  Mr Fooks was an British motoring artist who turned out d...

 Definitely a must-have when you didn't have time to send a crewman aft to take readings on your minesweeper-sized yacht. 

This is the first Lube-NSU I've seen. Parts are probably close to impossible to find, these bikes were made in Spain and do not show up ...

Here's a little hobby trimming plane made in Holland. By the wing nut and the groove on the bottom, it must be part of a system but I ca...

  I was skulking around an industrial area of Toronto and came upon these statues out behind a factory. I just have to wonder, are they fact...