Donald Duck, Bruce McLaren, Graham Chapman, and the Jeep Have you ever wondered what was the inspiration for Donald Duck's car? Have you ever realized that the cars first raced by Bruce McLaren and Graham Chapman of Lotus were originally made by the same company that invented the Jeep? For a journey into a bit of ...
Introduction When the world entered into the First World War it was said that the Americans went to war with a target rifle, the Springfield 1903, the Germans went to war with a hunting rifle, the Mauser M1898, and the British went to war with a combat rifle, the Lee-Enfield. There is an element of truth ...
A Shaky Beginning Aston Martin is a company that was founded by idealists, with the result that during its first century of doing business it went bankrupt no less than seven times. The company was first set up in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford and got the "Aston" in its name because Lionel Martin ...
The 4 Bore: the Black Powder Era Elephant Gun The early elephant hunters back in the black powder era of the early to mid nineteenth century did not have access to rifles or guns that could dependably penetrate in such a way as to reliably stop an elephant, especially in the event of a charge where ...
A Classic Riflescope for a Classic Rifle A few years ago as I was coming back into the shooting sports, having spent some years working overseas in a country that was not "gun friendly", I started looking for a suitable classic riflescope to suit the classic rifle I was planning to buy. As I looked for ...
A Motorcycle Not for the Masses George Brough's family appears to have been quite involved with motorcycles and competition. George stated in later Brough Superior advertising that he had competed in his first motorcycle event in 1906 while he was still at school, and that is two years before George's father, William Brough, established his motorcycle ...
Introduction The British gunmaking trade was primarily concentrated in the cities of London and Birmingham during the 1800's and 1900's. Some gunmakers produced complete guns in-house exclusively but many purchased either component parts such as actions and barrels from other makers and finished them in their own workshops. Other companies did not make guns or rifles ...
To Build a Porsche Camper The one vehicle type that no-one would expect Porsche to build is a camper or mobile home. Porsche's engineering mavens proved to be among the world's best when it came to designing and building sports and performance cars, but they never turned their hand to creating a camper like the Volkswagen ...
A Dangerous Game Rifle That Could Be Speed Reloaded by Stripper Clip The .425 Westley Richards is sometimes referred to as the Westley Richards .425 Magnum Express. It became a much respected cartridge, favored by the legendary Frederick Courtenay Selous and by John "Pondoro" Taylor, author of "African Rifles and Cartridges". Firing a 410grain bullet at ...
The Real Star of "Goldfinger" Do you remember where you were when you first saw the James Bond movie "Goldfinger"? I do, I was on a ship named the SS Canberra traveling from Britain to Australia. The ship was equipped with a movie theater and admission was free so you could go to the movies as ...