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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Monday, April 13, 2026

100th Bugatti 46 chassis

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  Monsieur Bugatti (center, behind steering wheel) with staff and friends posing at Molsheim in 1930. I wonder what the chassis number is. B...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Triumph in 1967

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  Just not sure what they're selling here...
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Sidecar Sunday

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 Hauptman trial? Anyone remember the Lindbergh kidnapping?
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Seemed like a great idea at the time...

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Link belts

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The Teach Yourself books  A E Peatfield,  Engineering Components and Materials. The English Engineering Press, 1951  Still around today... ...
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Friday, April 10, 2026

Baldwin Duckworth chain

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1948  Care and lubrication here.   History of Baldwin Duckworth here .

Unnecessary cross section view?

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Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice , American Technical Society, Vol 1, 1903  The mystery of vise mechanisms revealed! No one could have kno...
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Thursday, April 9, 2026

The Future of Transportation!

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Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938  But hadn't we already eliminated Zeppelins a few years earlier?
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Long live the Offenhauser engine!

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Artist; Vic Berris   The Offy 4 cylinder racing engine was designed in the twenties by Fred Offenhauser and Harry Miller of Miller Racing a...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

We used to make things in this country #379 Bricks

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 Domtar (Dominion Tar and Chemical Co.) is a large paper and forestry product company that was in the brick business through most of the 20t...
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