C T Ham Mfg lamps

Charles Ham left the Steam Gauge & Lantern Company to form the C.T. Ham Mfg Co. to manufacture kerosene lanterns in Rochester NY in 1886. The company did well but unfortunately he passed away in 1903, his son continued the business till he sold to the Dietz Manufacturing Company in 1915.

 No lack of catalogs and examples for sale online.

 

1971 Triumph frame construction

Frames are set up in a jig and welded.

Because this new frame was also the oil reservoir, each frame was pressure tested by dunking into a tank.

Steering head bearing receptacles and swingarm pivot are machined.

March 1971 Cycle Guide

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Amédée Bollée Torpilleur Type B

 

G.N. Georgano, A Motor Racing Camera 1894-1916, David and Charles, 1976

The racing Torpilleur Type B sporting a "streamlined" body, as well as pneumatic tires and a real steering wheel. Four of these cars competed in the Paris Amsterdam-Paris race of 1898, two of them finishing 3rd and fifth , no doubt assisted by the aerodynamic V-shaped radiator. 

All of the Bollée family seemed to be craftsmen, inventors and manufacturers.  Amédée Dad was a bellmaker and inventor who built steam powered vehicles in the later 1800s, his son Amédée continued developing vehicles with internal combustion engines, racing them himself. Another brother Léon Bollée, ran an self-named automobile company till his death in 1913, the factory being bought by Morris in the 1920s.

Monday Mystery, Hand Drill

Here's a very nice two-pinion hand drill type of tool with a cast handle and... some sort of a non drilling end. Any guesses?

 I'm sure the kids could commandeer the tool for playing submachine guns...

Solved! (see comments) Turns out it's a device to grind valves with a clever action, the half gear on the crank only engages one pinion at a time and so it reverses every half turn for proper valve lapping motion. (Thanks, Meddleshop)

 

Buddy L truck

Too classy for kids...

 

Sidecar Sunday

 

Stanley Atha

 

Here's a good solid cold chisel, about 5 1/2 inches long. It's been sharpened (not very well) but it would be my pick to chop off any bolt. 

Benjamin Atha started the Atha Tool Co. to make hammers, chisels and blacksmithing tools in Newark N.J. in 1881. Stanley bought Atha in 1913 and continued to use the Atha name and trademark for many years afterward.

International Scout II

 Me, these days I'd prefer the original Scout....

 But if you happened to pass a Scout II and a 1977 Blazer for sale with expendable cash in your pocket, which would it be?

1903 Darraq

After the 1903 Dourdan Speed Trials a Darraq is towed away. using real horsepower. The cutaways in the nose of the streamlined body were intended to aid in cornering.
 

G.N. Georgano, A Motor Racing Camera 1894-1916, David and Charles, 1976

Waiting for a cargo

 Idle sailing ships in Lake Union, Seattle. In the foreground is the William T Lewis, built as the Robert Duncan in 1891. It survived an attack by a U-boat in WW1 and after being converted to a towbarge in the 1930s was wrecked off Vancouver Island in 1942. The other ships are currently anonymous.