The Car That Made Good in a Day: Stutz Beginnings Harry Clayton Stutz had a business called Stutz Auto Parts Co. but, like so many young men, he wanted to move from making auto parts for other cars to making cars of his own. To this end he built a racing car of his own design ...
Background: A Nation in Recovery In the wake of the Second World War, following on as it did from the Great Depression and the First World War, ordinary people were still trying to build a new life for themselves and the industries shattered by war were trying to rebuild for a new era, an era people ...
Introduction: Science or Politics? In the rush to "modernize" their rail system the French, like most governments in the world, were not just interested in obtaining more efficiency or more speed for their rail network. Appearances were far more important because politics depends on appearances, not performance. In the world today we see governments wanting to ...
Introduction The Smith & Wesson No. 3 revolver became one of the most well traveled revolvers to spring from the United States. These revolvers were among the first cartridge revolvers made, Smith & Wesson having patented their invention of a bored through revolver cylinder for metallic cartridge loading, thus preventing rival Colt from using a design ...
A Tale of a Practical King Once upon a time, in a land far far away, a land called Montenegro, there lived a wise king who ordered that all the men of his nation must be a part of the militia and were to arm themselves with heavy caliber revolvers so they would be equipped to ...
Introduction: The Break-Action Double Rifle The double barrel action has long been established as a shotgun action, ideal for providing an effortless second shot, and able to be made as an elegant looking, and instinctive handling gun. I don't know about you, but my preference for a shotgun is a quality side by side double which, ...
The "Land of Oz" and a Plethora of Rail Gauges There's a song that says the "Land of Oz is a very funny place..." and some people like to call Australia the "Land of Oz". Its true that, back in the 1960's when I first went there, it seemed a funny place indeed. Instead of nickels ...
Introduction: An Odd Beginning The story of the Gar Wood mahogany runabout speed boats begins, oddly enough, with ferry boat racing on Lake Osakis in Minnesota and coal dump trucks. Born in 1880 Garfield Arthur Wood was the eldest son of a ferry operator on Lake Osakis, in Minnesota. He grew up the elder brother to a ...
The Spanish word "Tramontana" could best be translated as "a wind that travels over the mountain", or perhaps "a wind that transports you to the other side of the mountain" . That is in all likelihood why that name was selected for a quite unique sports car that hails from Spain and is best described at ...
Samuel Colt was a businessman, and at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 he was placed in a position where, like everyone else in the United States, he would need to choose a side to support. He had initially been involved in selling firearms to both north and south, and had sold 2,000 ...
