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

  They left out the pull cord check. It doesn't matter, you'll probably get stranded no matter what you do. Why do I want one?

 This is a "Gee Dee" German-made "multi-tool" - in all its glory - the handle is hollow. The head of the hammer unscrews...

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

  This was the most beautiful thing a rural kid travelling by bicycle could have imagined back then.

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

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

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

 Hauptman trial? Anyone remember the Lindbergh kidnapping?

 

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