Cars in the 'hood, Oldsmobile Cutlass

Planes in Formation, Fleet Cornell

Larry Milberry, Aviation in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1979

Fleet Aviation of Port Erie built a version of the Fairchild PT-19 with an enclosed cockpit for use in the Commonwealth Training program. Following the practise of naming training aircraft after universities, it was named the Cornell.  In total, about 1700 were built. 
Despite the Denmark name on the nose, the flight shown was apparently assigned to the Norwegian air force training unit which were based at Toronto Island Airport.

Delage D8

The D8 was a French luxury car powered by a 4 litre OHV straight 8. The manufacturer supplied the car as a chassis intended to have the body built by one of the various coachbuilders and so appears in many different sleek and stylized forms, this one probably being one of the more restrained versions. Below, D8-120Aero Coupe.

Austin production line

6 cylinder Austin 16s in production at the Longbridge works in Birmingham in 1930 during the "Great Slump". All that's missing are the hundreds of workers, perhaps laid off. During that time, Britain had more than three million people out of work.

Sidecar Sunday

Classic MotorCycle Mar 92

Dot Motor Van

During the thirties, Dot manufactured 3 wheel pedal trucks, basically a box on two wheels coupled to half a bicycle on the back. The company had received a boost when an Italian ice cream vendor drew up the fancier vehicle below. 

During WW2, DOT came up with a motorized version, powered by a 122 cc Villiers engine. It began production during the war and continued till the late fifties.

Matchless G50

Matchless introduced this beautiful 500cc racer in 1959. Although it was successful, only 180 were made by the time production ceased in 1963. 
Replicas have been popular, in a motorcycle magazine in the late eighties George Beale said figured they had made about about 150 more based on the fact he made about 10 replicas per year, though his website currently says 41! 
 In the background, the roadgoing Matchless twins- wrapped in paper- were the company's main product.

Canadair Sabre

Larry Milberry, Aviation in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson 1979

The first production Sabre 6 was completed on 2 November 1954 — 64 years ago.

Santa Fe Blue Goose

Santa Fe had just one streamlined steam locomotive #3460, a Hudson configuration steamer. Built by Baldwin in 1937 a year after the diesel powered Super Chief began service. it was painted robins egg blue, earning it the nickname, The Blue Goose. I wish the image was in colour.

Chicago World Fair