Sidecar Sunday

The tandem bicycle is a 1938 Grubb, the maker of the sidecar is not identified. Just the thing for a sporting young couple with their new baby.

 

Barb wire stretcher

The initials on the handle of this tool might be OTC, which I can't find any info on but the tool looks 19th century.

 To operate, the wire is slid between the jaws to the left of the pivot. Rotating the handle a few degrees pinches the wire. The points on the end are jammed against the fencepost which acts as a fulcrum to pull the wire tight.

Always on the level...

Nice useful promotional giveaway.  "We are always on the level"  Groan. 

The ad below comes from a 1960 newspaper, and a story on the business, which closed in 1993 here.

 

Cleveland National Air Races, 1929

 1929 was the first time Cleveland hosted the National Air Races. This is ne of several posters for that event. A biplane rounds the pylon over the grandstand and there is a real person waving a flag in the top of that pylon.

 What it actually looked like, below...

BMW sectioned K100 engine

 

Sammy Miller Museum

Pierce Arrow Service Center, Long Island City

 Pierce Arrow built this four story service center in Long Island City near the east end of the Queensboro bridge, capable of servicing 500 cars at a time. Picture dating to about 1914.

AACA

Another view.

 According to the caption in the AACA forum, this image was in a French magazine for March 1926 and stated that the building was "a great example of a public monument" so far as parking garages went. SO who has the room on top of their building to mount a similar sign? It was illuminated so people in Manhattan could see the logo at night.

More here.

El Camino, 1968

 Nice car... errr... truck. That may be a stock colour but it's been put on a lot better than the factory did. 396 V8, it would move along just fine...

Interkosmosz Space Car

Battery powered tin toy "Holdauto" (translates as Moon Auto or Moon Car). Manufactured by Lemezaru Gyar, Hungary. 
 

Matchless 1953

 Back when the Earls Court show was THE motorcycle show. The last time I was in London I saw that they've knocked the building down.

Made in Taiwan, wrench by Shark

Another import tool, this Shark wrench may be the only wrench with a cartoon animal for a logo. Despite that, the quality seems pretty good.