Over at Bring A Trailer and Craigslist Colorado there’s an interesting variant of the Dodge Power Wagon. This one has been fitted out as a school bus and although there are signs of rust and the…
André Chapelon and the Steam Locomotive
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…
Triumph-Werke Nürnberg B200 1936
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…
Motobi Catria 175cc OHV 1962
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…
J2 Allard
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…
Ariel Square Four Model 4G 1000
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…