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

 

  This is a 1913 portrait of a newly lauunched tugboat in Portland Maine harbour. The Commercial Towboat Company of Boston commissioned the ...

Looks the part of an offroad explorer, but it looks much too clean and sweet to actually risk scratching or even getting dirty.  

These look like a good quality end cutter-type tool made in Japan, but for some specialized purpose, the jaws are offset.   Similar pair, wi...

 Another appearance of the J.A.P. V twin. This is one of the last models built. The GCS was a motorcycle produced in Australia from 1912-192...

The world's first production motorcycle, apparently, available from 19894-1897. The gas engine was a primitive 1500cc twin with the conr...

Richard Hough and Michael Frostick, A History of the World's High Performance Cars, George Allen & Unwin, 1967 Iso Grifo was an Ita...

 Just an beat up old lock made by Yale & Towne. The lock, attached to a rusted hasp was $1.50 at a junk/antique store. I wanted a used-l...

I scanned this colour plate from the undated 22 page book Camouflage and Markings, Hawker Tornado Typhoon and Tempest by R C Jones and R L W...

 Fancy postwar German radio receiver receiving Broadcast, FM and two Shortwave bands. Is Broadcast AM? I'm not sure. Anyways at about 2 ...