What's a clabber girl, anyway?

From Wikipedia... The Clabber Girl name brand comes from the word "clabber", a type of sour milk. In the early 1800s, people mixed clabber with pearl ash, soda, cream of tartar, and a few other ingredients to make what we know today as baking powder. The first baking powder brand by Hulman and company was the "Milk Brand". Hulman is the same family that owned the Indianapolis Speedway till 2019.

An artist was commissioned to make a drawing for the logo in 1899,  whether or not they used a model is not known. She must have been a draw, though the brand name was not changed to Clabber Girl till 1923. The product is still around today, now owned by B&G Foods.

 

Beeston Quadricycle

In the words of the owner, whose name i did not get...

 

ADAP wrench

Here's another ordinary middling-quality Japanese-made wrench found at a used tool store. I've never seen the name and there's no info online that I can find on this manufacturer.

The King Eight, 1917

 The car of no regrets. That might have been the message in this very formal ad but the car company itself staggered along under different owners till its demise in 1925.

 The 8 cylinder engine was a 1914 innovation, introduced just after Cadillac showed theirs. The founder, Charles Brady King, was a multitalented man, engineer, artist, musician and mystic. He had built a car to compete in the 1895 Chicago Herald Auto race but it wasn't completed in time. He did have the consolation of being the first man to drive a car in Detroit. After working in the field for years he started the King Motor company in 1911. It was almost immediately bankrupt and then passed through several hands over the years, while producing about 35,000 cars before collapsing permanently. 

Kawasaki frames it. 1969

 Kawasaki trying to improve upon the featherbed frame? Oddly, they did not use this design in their new H-1 triple. I expect the ad is aimed at Suzuki who during that period, didn't use any frame member vertically from the swing arm pivot for their twins.

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Bédélia cycle car

Bédélia cycle car racer. The driver sat at the rear, the mechanic went along for the ride in the front seat. These people must have the same personality quirk of sidecar monkeys. 

The steering is a center-pivot axle, like a wagon, Forward motion is provded by a motorcycle engine with belt drive. About as basic as it gets!, The passenger version below got fenders and a bit more bodywork. About 3000 of these things were built, and were taken seriously enough to be used as an ambulance. (Bottom)

 

In ambulance form.  From Retromobile

Planes in Formation, A-12 Shrike

The A-12 was a development of the A-8, the result of the decision by the United States Army Air Corps to standardize on air cooled radial engines. The addition of the radial engine did not improve the looks of the plane. Post on the A-8 here. 

 

Sidecar Sunday

Classic MotorCycle August 1989

Chris Williams and passenger

Racingvincent.co.uk

 

Ontario shipbuilding WW2

 

Camelback locomotive

 The camelback locomotive (also known as a Mother Hubbard) was the result of the development of the Wooten firebox, designed to have the maximum grate area to burn cheaper hard coal (anthracite). The cab ended up behind the firebox which before the days of trailing trucks didn't work. The solution was to leave the fireman out on the footplate while moving the engineer forward alongside of the boiler in his own cab. This was not ideal, the crewmen were separated and unable to to communicate. They were not popular with crews for that reason and also because a broken rod could thrash the cab and occupying engineer. The photo at bottom shows that it did actually happen. 

But I want to know, who occupied the left side of the cab? I found a reference by a prewar reporter who got to ride in the cab, he was seated on the left side seat, which was identified as the fireman's seat- though I expect the fireman rarely got the chance to walk up beside the boiler and take a break. Locomotive crews at the time were three, engineer, fireman and brakeman. I guess the brakeman was in the caboose or on a passenger train, in a coach.

Ron Ziel and George Foster, Steel rails to the sunrise, Hawthorne Books, 1965