Winton Motor Carriage

1899 Winton Motor Carriage
The Automobile Collection, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, 1986

The Winton Motor Carriage was built in Cleveland, Ohio and first available in 1898. This was one of America's first production cars and only 22 were built that year. One of those first year vehicles was purchased by Col. John Moodie Jr., an industrialist from Hamilton. This was also the first automobile in Canada. Col. Moodie liked his toys, he also had owned the first bicycle in Canada and the first motorboat in Hamilton harbour.
 In 1899 over 100 Wintons were sold and by 1900 Alexander Winton was claiming his factory was the largest car factory in the world. 

Hamilton Spectator

Butler Petrol cycle

According to Wikipedia, this vehicle was first shown at the Stanley Cycle show in London in 1884. A remarkably advanced device, powered by a water cooled 600cc flat twin four stroke engine with float-type carburetor and using a battery and coil ignition. Apparently it could manage 40 mpg but at speeds not much more than a walking speed. Powered vehicles were discouraged in Britain at the time by the Red Flag Act and the inventor broke the vehicle up in 1896.

The New York Central Mercury, before and after

Russell Flinchum, Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer, Rizzoli 1997

The New York Central J-1 Hudson and the streamlined Mercury version, designed by Henry Dreyfuss in 1936.  Previous post here.

Motorcycle model kits

Seen at at CVMG swapmeet last Saturday, Protar, Italieri... rare kits

Triumph twin cutaway

Just can't get enough of the technical cutaways, this one by artist John Ferguson- more info here

Hines-Watt Snappy-Sport Body

Not much information on the Hine-Watt Mfg company online. A listing from 1920 lists it  a a company with a complete line of automotive supplies and there are numerous references to carbide lamps online but not much else. It was one of a number of companies selling lightweight speedster bodies for the ubiquitous Model T and could possibly could be considered the beginning of the hot rod movement. The $100 price tag is about 25% of the price of a new Model T at the time so it isn't cheap. It comes prepainted so it couldn't have been too much of a job to install, I'd love to see the instruction manual for this product.
 Add the accessory below and wow, hit of the party!

Austin 7

In some ways the Model T of England, the tiny Austin 7 was introduced in 1922, 2500 were sold that year.  Sales increased greatly in the next few years, wiping out the competition and virtually defining the British small car. Nearly 300,000 had been built when production ceased in 1939.

Italian tank testing

Lt Col. Robert J. Icks, Tanks and Armoured Vehicles.  Phillip Andrews Pub. 1945

The Fiat 3000 tank was based on the French Renault tank of WW1, but modified to suit Italian mountain conditions. It was smaller and lighter than the Renault and had a low center of gravity to suit mountainous terrain. Power was by a Fiat 54 hp engine and armament was one or two machine guns- later upgunned to a 37mm cannon. About 150 were built and some were still being used in WW2.

Alberta Provincial Police checkpoint

Pictures taken about 1922, I believe. Checkpoint for illicit booze maybe? It was prohibition time...

Thanks, Michael

Know your girder forks

Article by Frank Farrington, The Classic MotorCycle, July 1994