Par-3 wrenches

This is another wrench we found locally, apparently Par-X is a higher end Snap-On but we can find very little info on this Par-3 brand. Knowledge and opinions welcomed! Wherever this is made, they aren't publicizing it!

 

Medallion Motor Oil

Remember when oil cans were actually cardboard tubes with metal caps? This is a product from Gulf Oil Canada from the 1970s.
 

Alvis Cars

More Silver Eagle here.

 

Unoscop

 Here's a good solid slide projector made in Sweden from the late forties by the Fritz Meist company. 

Fritz Meist had come to Sweden in the late thirties from Germany as a refugee and started a small import-export business mostly concerned with photography equipment, expanding into a small factory after the war. The company soon was struggling and the manager Einar Bohmelin was given the job of saving it. He designed various bits of photographic equipment for the company to manufacture including the Unibox camera and this slide projector which became standard equipment in Swedish schools up into the seventies.

History in Swedish here.

Newfie Chainsaw

 Or so the label said, a slight against our friends on the east coast on "the Rock". Other countries, insert your favorite geographic area to pick on, Hillbillies, Friesians, etc...

Drag racing, 1957

Early drag racers from 1957 when they were trying to do the job with finesse instead of just bigger fuel and air pumps. Nitro methane had just been introduced about 5 years before and racers were trying to come to terms with the stuff. Both these machines pictured were set up for pump gas, not sure about the Merlin.

Above; Masters Dragliner, streamlined body with Chevrolet V8 power.

Below; Bill Hofer's Ole Smoke II, streamlined aluminum body with Chevrolet inline 6.

Bottom; Art Arfon and his Rolls Royce Merlin-powered machine. To get some idea of speeds, he had reached 157.89 mph. This was before he happened upon the idea of using a GE J-79 Jet engine instead.

Motor Life magazine, April, 1958

 

Rumpler Tropfenwagen at the Moving Beauty exhibition

July August 1982 issue of Antique Automobile

Edmund Rumpler had worked in the automotive industry until WW1 when he focused his attention to aircraft, this mix of experience led him back to car design when after the war he was not allowed to continue with the aircraft industry. he instead designed this revolutionary streamlined car, the Tropfenwagen (tear drop car) introducing it in 1921. From the top, it resembled a fish, the pictures of wind tunnel tests seem to ignore that. It was the hit of the Berlin show but of course so being so far out there as well as being quite expensive, it never gained much popularity. It was sold in small numbers for 4 years. It was tested in Volkswagens windtunnel (bottom picture) where it showed drag coefficient of just .28, right up there with the best of the modern designs.  

 

Bottom two pictures from the book Moving Beauty, a catalog of the 1995 art exhibition; Moving Beauty at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. 

More here; Moving Beauty

The show, itself was controversial, cars in an art museum? but it apparently drew more viewers than any show before it.  There were about fifty spectacular vehicles on display, many of them we had only seen in pictures.

Dodge Charger for 1977

 The night belongs to Charger- and its 5 mph bumper. Not the angle I'd pick to show off whatever attributes the car still has after a few years of federal standards whad been applied to a formerly sharp looking car, but at least the vinyl roof isn't obvious...

Curtis Commando conversions

 L.B. Smith Aircraft Corp.

Kawasaki performance, pre- H1