Desperate people tend to resort to desperate measures. So it was in 1916 as German troops faced the menace of the new allied tanks that they were driven to try to find a counter measure and…
Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr
Antonio Zoli Combination Gun/Rifle Set
In Europe combination guns and double rifles are relatively popular, partly because of their practicality, but also in part because of restrictions on firearms ownership in certain countries. In Europe there can also be a certain…
Richard “Dick” Seaman and the Mercedes Silver Arrows
Richard “Dick” Seaman was the only British racing driver to be admitted to the Mercedes-Benz “Silver Arrows” Grand Prix racing team in the period before the Second World War. Born on 4th February 1913 as the…
Ariel Square 4 Mark I
Back in 1928 a young man named Edward Turner came up with a design for a motorcycle engine that he believed would be a world beater. He went from manufacturer to manufacturer showing his idea and…
Hercules W-2000
In a recent post we looked at the Norton Classic, a twin rotor Wankel engined motorcycle that probably should have become more popular than it was. Interestingly an example of the predecessor of the Norton Classic…
Lamborghini Urraco P250 Barn Find
A genuine barn find can be hard to find. However this Lamborghini Urraco P250 is a genuine barn find that is undergoing some modest restorative work to get it into running order ready for auction. The…
Helle Knives
Helle knives come from Norway and have established a reputation for reliability and a sharpness that endures hard use. Helle use a triple layer stainless steel construction essentially creating a knife blade with slightly softer and…
B. Searcy Double Rifle in .470 Nitro Express
In times gone by, when I was a schoolboy in post war Britain, the map of the world was quite filled with the various outposts of the British Empire. That empire which included large chunks of…
Egli-Vincent
If the Vincent motorcycle had any vices it would take a perfectionist Swiss to discover and rectify them. Fritz Egli was such a perfectionist Swiss and he recognised that, superb though the Vincent bikes were, that…
Norton Classic
The Wankel rotary engine was expected to replace conventional piston engines. It was new, it was a dramatically different concept to piston engines, it had the advantage of light weight and greater power for any given…