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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The land that time forgot

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 Snapped last summer... suddenly it's 1975...

Honda 90, 1967

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  This was the most beautiful thing a rural kid travelling by bicycle could have imagined back then.
Monday, April 13, 2026

Starrett micrometer patent

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 Patent 433, 311  Datamp notes it was not known to be produced.
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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...
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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 .
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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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