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We used to make things in this country #316 Eagle Manufacturing

 

This nicely-made adjustable body file holder was in a box at a flea market, I had never seen the company name before. Googling the name brought no results, just another company that disappeared without a trace...

Wooden pattern, oil bottle

 While driving around today, we had the good fortune to stumble upon the Salvage Garden, located in a decommissioned church. Among the treasures was this wooden pattern, said to be for a blow moulded gallon plastic oil container, the shape is not identifiable to me (the label changes everything). 

 The pattern would be used to form the mould cavity, in plaster or more likely epoxy. I suspect it's from the 1980s, blow moulded oil bottles were introduced in the mid to late seventies, and by the 1990s, if patterns were used at all, they were modelled in CAD and usually machined in urethane foam using CNC.

1955 Chevy four door

 

L.F. Loree, Delaware and Hudson #1403

The L. F. Loree was an experimental high pressure triple expansion steam locomotive, sporting 4 cylinders and poppet valves instead of the more common slide valves. The locomotive was built in 1932 and placed in service in April 1933. Despite all its unusual features, it was not particularly successful, being a slow speed freight engine when the trend was for large heavy engines capable of higher speeds. More here.

 

1912 Siddeley Deasy

 Musical chairs and company names.

 The Deasy Motor company was founded by Henry Hugh Peter Deasy in 1905 after he persuaded a group of wealthy friends to finance the venture. By 1908, he had fallen out with the chief designer, E W Lewis and he quit, leaving his name on the company letterhead. By this time John Davenport Siddeley, formerly of the Siddeley Motor Company and the Wolseley-Siddeley automobile, was running the company.

Siddeleys name was tied up with his earlier ventures so under the new badge- JDS Deasey- the company did well, selling high quality mid-priced cars such as the one above, powered by a 24 hp 4 cylinder engine.  

The war brought changes, car production stopped, they manufactured ambulances and trucks as well as expanding into aircraft engines and airframes. Postwar, they struggled, running into difficulties with material shortages. 

A series of mergers eventually resulted in the formation of the Hawker Siddeley aircraft company in 1935.

1958 Buick Roadmaster

From the 200 drawer-pull grille through the sculptured A and C pillars and the chrome swoop from headlight to rear wheel, there is an awful lot going on in the styling of this car.

 

Hercules airliner

Len Morgan, Airliners of the world,  Arco Publishing, 1966

In 1965 Alaska Airlines flew over 3 million pounds of oil well drilling equipment from Fairbanks, Alaska to a site near the Arctic Ocean in a 20 day span using this L-382 aircraft.

 114 of the civilianized version of the C-130 Hercules were produced.

Scott, 1910

Classic Motorcycle Mar 1991

 Rev. John Hodgkin, rector of Whittington-in-Lonsdale posing on his 450cc air and water cooled Scott twin. Photo taken July, 1910. 

1910 Cycle and Motorcycle Exhibition

Scott Engineering Co., Ltd.

Mornington Works, Bradford. Stand No. 32.

Few motor-cycles have drawn no much attention - and respect - on their introduction as the Scott. The bore and stroke of the two-cycle two-cylinder engine are 70 mm and 64 mm respectively, and the rating is 3 1/2 horse power. The two-speed gear gives ratios of 4 to 1 and 7 to 1, and the transmission is by chain. The starting, by kick-down lever, is a specially good feature. 

Among other modifications introduced for 1911 are the entire water-jacketting of the cylinder, the fitting of 21in. Palmer Cord or Kempshall tyres to both wheels, and the provision of automatic lubrication. It is a unique machine and should command excellent business.

Wrench oddity

 

It took a bit of head scratching to identify this object when it was found inside an old boxcar that was being refurbished at the Waterloo Central Railway, but it was was soon figured out. 

The answer is here at the excellent Alloy-Artifacts site.