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

Artwork by F.W. Beak, Not much information on him online.  

  Crescent started making the adjustable wrench as we know it in about1905 although they did not patent it till 1915. The double ended versi...

Seems like an unusual model for a toy, especially when Tonka failed to provide an airliner in the same scale... The toy included two luggage...

I don't often look at old planes too much, this one caught my eye. Between the years 1902 and 1952, Stanley made the #39 plane in 7 size...

   Did people keep them as a collector item, I wonder?    List price seems ridiculously cheap.  In Canada in1982 average income was about $3...

 

  250cc Villiers two stroke engine. Villiers provided engines for nearly all the lightweight postwar British motorcycles, as well as utility...

 Last month I found out what a  turnscrew is, this month I found one!

 I think of J&R as a two stroke exhaust manufacturer more than 4 stroke-but this seems to be working...