Yes...those were different times...

Sidecar Sunday

Rebuilt motorcycle engines 1956

Part of a full page ad in the May 1 1956 issue of the English motorcycle magazine Motor Cycle. We should have stocked up on those Indian engines...

Canadian Coast Guard vessel Grenville

Charles Maginley, The ships of Canada's Marine Services, Vanwell Publishing 2003

The Grenville was built by the Polson Iron Works in Toronto in 1915 and served as a lighthouse supply and buoy tender for fifty years. In December 1968 the Grenville was pulling buoys in the St. Lawrence River when she got caught in the ice and was pushed broadside against the fixed span of the St Louis bridge. The current dragged her over and she sank on the spot. The crew managed to climb onto the abutments and were saved.

D-Type Jaguar

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Jaguar, Jaguar Cars, 1990

The D-type of 1953 was an entirely new development for Jaguar, the chassis was a monocoque design and the XK engine now produced 250 hp. In 1956 D-types won the Le Mans 24 Hrs in 1955 and 1957. Jaguar claims a total of 75 were built.

Henry Ford's new acquisition

In 1928 Henry Ford was in the process is setting up and acquiring artifacts for his museum at Dearborn Michigan. The Brooklyn City Railroad donated this 1860s horsecar and Henry Ford poses as as it is presented to him by the Brooklyn City Railway president, H. Hobart Porter. 
Part of the photo op was Mr. Ford driving the horse car but the horse "Jericho" refused to move. Henry told the press, who was urging him to wave his whip; "I wouldn't whip that horse for anything!" at which point the horse proceeded to move.

Ford R. Bryan, Henry’s Attic: Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum, Wayne State University Press, 1995

Schooner Chrissie C. Thomey

Charles Maginley, The ships of Canada's Marine Services, Vanwell Publishing 2003

Built in Burgeo, Newfoundland, this three masted schooner was a merchant schooner in the West Indies trade when in 1920 she was purchased by the Canadian Government as a hydrographic survey vessel. While surveying the mouth of the Rupert River in James Bay in 1913, she became trapped behind a sandbank and had to be abandoned.

James Captain, 1956

Waterloo traction engine

1899 Steam traction engine by Waterloo Manufacturing.
The Waterloo Manufacturing Company, Ltd. was a Canadian farm engine builder based in Waterloo, Ontario, which built steam engines in sizes ranging from sixteen to thirty horsepower between 1880 and 1925. As gasoline power took over from steam in the 1920's and 30's the company served as Canadian distributors for U.S. farm machinery brands including Hart Parr, Twin Cities and Minneapolis-Moline.

Waterloo Manufacturing continues to sell and service industrial boilers.

McLaughlin Master Six