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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

BSA C15 engine cutaway, 1959

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

Crescent double-ended adjustable

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  Crescent started making the adjustable wrench as we know it in about1905 although they did not patent it till 1915. The double ended versi...
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Monday, January 5, 2026

Tonka Airlines luggage tractor

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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...

Stanley 39 Dado Plane

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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...
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Sunday, January 4, 2026

1982 Jeep

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

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Saturday, January 3, 2026

Fanny B.

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

Turnscrew

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 Last month I found out what a  turnscrew is, this month I found one!
Friday, January 2, 2026

J &R four into one

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 I think of J&R as a two stroke exhaust manufacturer more than 4 stroke-but this seems to be working...
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Fashion Friday For the speedy sixties!

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