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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Sidecar Sunday

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Seen at the Brooklands Museum. Grubbs "pullman" Tandem with add-on. I can't imagine it handled well.   
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Saturday, October 10, 2026

What's inside a hand crank phone?

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  Giving the hand crank a spin on these phones spun a magneto which sent a pulse down the line to the operators switchboard and alerted her ...
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Safety first!

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  Misplaced apostrophes, but you get the message...  
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Friday, October 9, 2026

Fashion Friday. Polyester leisure suits anyone?

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Dow Chemical Company 1958  
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Remember the Maine!

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 “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!” was the American rallying cry used to push the United States into declaring war against Spain in ...
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Thursday, October 8, 2026

Chevy Stepside

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 Nice sporty vehicle from 1976, get it with the 350 4 barrel, I think.. These days this generation is known as the squarebody, but in the se...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Ingenuity at work

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This is a Canadian-made Connor wringer washer , popular in the 1940s and 50s, outfitted with a smaller tub and a wooden paddle arrangement t...
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Museum display

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  William George Barker was Canada's fourth highest scoring ace in WW1 at 50 victories. This entry was found in a catalog of the Canadia...

One of my vices is vises, a Grizzly?

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Thanks, Arthur!  Not sure of the pedigree of this heavily used bench vise, I suspect it's an older Taiwanese import, just doing what it ...
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Creative shingling

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Just a nice little small town church.. but whoever designed it (probably a local carpenter) thought he would add a nice complicated curved b...
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