BRNO, a First Rifle The name BRNO is one that most Americans will never have heard of, but when I was a young man living and working in the Western Australian Goldfields the first rifle I…
The BRNO Super 575 Double Rifle
Model T Ford Custom Fun Car
On his YouTube Channel American shooting video maker “hickock45” ends every video with the exortation “Life is good”: and we make life good by making good choices. Just like most of us who have shooting and…
Smith & Wesson and New Haven Arms Lever Action Pistols
The Search for a Self-contained Cartridge The story of America’s iconic lever action rifle began with the efforts to invent a practical self contained cartridge. This was a relatively slow developmental process and while today we…
MG SA Saloon
One of the Last “Real Cars” Ever Made For a diehard classic MG enthusiast the MG SA might be described as one of the last “real cars” made. Let me elucidate with a short story of…
Humber Heavy Utility
Introduction In the lead up to both the first and second world wars the British Government and the British press seem to have been reluctant to accept the fairly obvious circumstances that pointed to the inevitability…
Pierce Arrow Four Motorcycle
It Began With a Gilded Cage and the Bicycle Craze You’ve no doubt heard of the song “Only a bird in a guilded cage…” and the manufacture of delicate guilded cages was the way the Heinz,…
