De Havilland Mosquito KA114

(From Wikipedia) This is one of the 1076 Canadian-built Mosquitos, built in 1944, retired in 1948. It was bought by a Albertan farmer and eventually the remains were acquired by the Canadian Museum of flight in Vancouver. 

In 2004 Jerry Yagen of the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach acquired it and it was restored by Avspecs in New Zealand.

 I think it would be more accurate to say it was more or less replicated, the 60 year old urea formaldehyde glued plywood had deteriorated beyond useability. These pictures were taken when the airplane was visiting the Canadian Wartime Heritage museum in 2015.

 More here.

 

Canadian Pacific in wartime

 

Humber Tandem Electric, 1898

Lead acid batteries, I presume... Another view.

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 This is Billy Cook. In 1909, he built this motorcycle to break the 87.2 mph speed record set by Henri Cissac 4 years previously.  The behemoth is powered by a huge 165.62 c.i. (2714 c.c.) NLG (North London Garage) JAP engine originally intended for aircraft. Can't imagine what that engine would do to the light wooden aircraft fuselage of the day. Of course someone has built a replica, enjoy it here.

Miller chisel

Difficult to read but in the view below, there is a triangle, the name Miller, France, Chrome Manganese. When I first saw this, I dismissed it just another simple punch or cold chisel, but the business end looks too specific to me, it might be a stone or metal engraving chisel? Or?  Ideas, anyone?

 Update: The name is actually Muller and it is a stone carvers chisel

 (see comments, Thanks, Dave)

Dave came to the rescue and provided a picture of a new chisel complete with label. Thanks!

Keeping up with the market

Mc Laughlin was one of the few successful Canadian carbuilding companies, ultimately being bought by GM in 1918.  The business started in 1867 because Robert McLaughlin of Oshawa built for himself a cutter that was good enough that he soon went into the carriage building business. By the end of the century the company had built a quarter million horse drawn vehicles.

  The advertising above dates from 1895; "Look at us successful folk out golfing, with our beautiful team of horses and our McLaughlin carriage."

By 1905, the imagery had changed: Other people may be flirting with those noisy and dangerous horseless carriage but look at smug us, being so attractive in our McLaughlin carriage..."

 The bottom ad is just 5 years later in 1910: "Whether you choose an elegant carriage or the latest in fashionable automobiles, we can all get along."

 Previous (undated) ad post.

 Rouge Hill today,

Now known as the Rouge Valley.

1951 Datsun pickup

 Wonder how they would sell today?

Canadian Red Cross Poster

Gore St Antique Market, Perth Ontario

 

Full size poster, approx 24x36", date unknown. 

EMC Motorcycles

Austrian Dr. Joe Ehrlich emigrated to England in the 30s and after the war founded EMC motorcycles. He designed and built split single (two piston, single combustion chamber) two strokes not unlike the Puch split singles. Race bikes the the one above were relatively successful. Sluggish sales closed the operation in 1953.

 

AJS 7R3 Tripleknocker

In the early 1950s, AJS needed a new race bike, the 7R was not delivering and the Porcupine was also nearing the end of its development. Development engineer Ike Hatch was put in charge of the next phase of the 7R development. What he came up with was an interesting three valve engine, one that used two exhaust valves arranged radially. This was done for several reasons, the radial arrangement would allow a better shaped combustion chamber with a centrally located spark plug, the two exhaust ports would in theory allow better airflow through the head and the two small valves cooled quicker keeping the incoming mixture cooler.  The valve actuation was inspired, to say the least. 

The engine was still recognizably a 7R, with the cam chain tower on the right side, but now it leaned back to drive just the intake cam. That cam was geared to a layshaft, which drove two individual exhaust cams running fore and aft- one to each exhaust valve. The drawing below shows an idea of the layout, I'd love to see it as an exploded view.

 In 1952 the bike was quite competitive but limited development meant that 1953 was less successful. In 1954, the engine remained much the same but the chassis was lowered and with much of the fuel tank below float bowl height, required the addition of a fuel pump. 

 That was the end, the factory decided to continue with production based 7Rs in 1955.