Frenchman André Chapelon is arguably the greatest railway steam locomotive engineer and designer the world has ever seen. Whereas others are known for individual designs and creation of items that improved steam locomotive efficiency André Chapelon…
Nurenberg resident Siegfried Bettmann came to Britain and in 1886 founded the Triumph Bicycle factory in Coventry, England. He continued making bicycles there and then in 1896 went back to his home town of Nurenberg and…
I sometimes wonder why some people, especially young men, are so attracted to big heavy high powered motorcycles when you can have so much fun on something a lot smaller. The big bike might go faster…
The J2 Allard might be described as the sports car you have when you’d like to have a motorbike. It is a car that somehow combines the feeling of oneness with the road that one gets…
The Ariel Square Four is a pretty unique piece of British engineering that essentially has two, two cylinder engines with two crankshafts joined together as one unit. Hence the “square four” name. The engine was originally…
Designed by Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher who is famous for his work with Otto Schönauer in creating the Mannlicher-Schönauer rifle, the Mannlicher automatic pistols of 1901 and 1905 were designed and manufactured at the same time…
Dictatorships be they fascist or communist typically want to do big impressive things to build their “face” and in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War it was decided that to…
Gabriel Voisin was a visionary who began in aviation and then moved on to creating luxury cars. During the First World War Voisin’s aircraft had been bombers but when that holocaust was ended Voisin decided that…
George Brough’s name is legendary in motorcycle circles. He created motorcycles so good that even Rolls-Royce didn’t object to his bikes being called “The Rolls-Royce of motorcycles”. However, relatively few enthusiasts know that the Brough Superior…
The author of “Cartridges of the World“, Frank C. Barnes described the .416 Remington Magnum as the “most outstanding factory cartridge introduced in decades” when the cartridge made its debut in 1988. Finally we had a…