Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.
with apologies to Ogden Nash...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Redrup radial, 1920
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March 1987 The Classic MotorCycle The Redrup 309 cc 3 cylinder radial was produced as a stationary engine to power pumps, generators et...
One of my vices is vises. H Boker hand vise
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Here is a very nice item by- once again- Henry Boker. A reader sent in this forged hand vice with a wooden- likely rosewood- handle. He ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
One millionth OMC outboard, Peterborough Ontario.
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I should have probably posted this under the "We used to make things in this country" category but I think the OMC saga deserves...
Feet Forward!
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No information at all on this mutant scooter.
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Bedalia Cycle car
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Most cycle cars were made from motorcycle parts held together in the most spindly of ways. This one seems to be the exception, powered by ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Champion Sign
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German motorcycle instruction model
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Thanks to Cutaway Collector for this post. This is a device and a category I was not even aware of, a motorcycle tra...
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Monday, July 9, 2018
Planes in formation, Mustangs
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Long range fighter escort in Europe during WW2, the planes are equipped with drop tanks
Bakelite resins
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In 1907 American-Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland discovered what became Bakelite while searching for a replacement for shellac. This was o...
Sunday, July 8, 2018
We used to make things in this country #294 Snow-Bug
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On display at the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton NY. The Snow-Bug was built in Sudbury Ontario from the 1958 till 1977, predating Bomb...
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