The US Postal Service placed an order for 150 custom Smith & Wesson Military & Police revolvers chambered for the .22lr cartridge. These revolvers were intended for staff training. By the late 1960’s these revolvers were…
Stanley Arnolt began his automobile distributorship and dealership business in 1950 dealing in British cars, initially Morris, MG and Riley, and then others including Bristol and Aston Martin. Arnolt bought a stake in Italian design house…
The Colt Model 1862 Pocket Police percussion revolver was originally designed in 1860 alongside the famous Civil War veteran, the Model 1860 Army. The Model 1862 Pocket Police was a smaller scale revolver made to be…
The Scammell Scarab and its predecessor the Mechanical Horse were an imaginative solution to the problem of replacing horse transportation of commercial and industrial goods with motorised vehicles. The Scammell Scarab provided extraordinary maneuverability with great…
The Austin FX3 became the iconic post-war London taxi during the period up into the “swinging sixties” in which British pop groups captured the music charts all over the world and London’s Carnaby Street became a…
The Winchester Model 1873 One of One Thousand rifles were made to be the absolute best that Winchester were capable of making. Montana pioneer Granville Stuart ordered Winchester One of One Thousand rifles for he and…
The story of the Ferrari 330 LM began with the creation of the three litre Ferrari 250 GTO racing cars which have gone down in history as some of the most famous, and thus most desirable,…
The 284 Winchester and the 6.5-284 Norma were both superb cartridges that produced surprisingly good performance in a relatively small package. Their short and fat case design with fairly sharp shoulder proved to be very popular…
The Aktiv Snow Trac was created by Lars Larsson, chief engineer for a Swedish farm machinery manufacturer AB Westeråsmaskiner. Lars wanted to be able to get to his winter cabin easily and in heated comfort, and…
The Remington 600 and 660 were without doubt rifle designs that were way ahead of their time. Remington set out to create a family of sporting rifles that were short and lightweight, and which had superb…