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 think of the self-contained metallic cartridge as being a simple idea it was by no means a self-evident concept to ...
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 love, family and democracy. Back in the late 1960's one of my friends was a classic car aficionado who owned ...
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 of a major war. Many ordinary men and women on the street could see things as they really were and ...
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, Pierce and Munschauer company began business in the wake of the Civil War in 1865. The company became well known ...
The Brough Superior and the Brough "Inferior" George Brough's father, William Edward Brough, was a motorcycle aficionado and was a knowledgeable and respected maker of motorcycles, so young George Brough grew up involved in his father's business acquiring the knowledge, skills and contacts of someone very much a part of the motorcycle manufacturing trade. George started ...
The Rarest Toyota Land Cruisers The Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45V is one of the rarest of the various Land Cruiser J40 models. Its a four wheel drive that I've long wanted to own but sadly that happy experience has eluded me. What has been the attraction? The Land Cruiser FJ45V put together all the good features ...
Annie Oakley's Early Life Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Mosey on August 13, 1860, less than a year before the American Civil War began. Her father was Jacob Mosey and her mother Susan Wise and Annie was the sixth of their nine children. The family were Quaker Christians and lived in a log cabin in ...
America's Service Pistol Could Have Been the Luger The turn of the twentieth century was a time when self-loading pistols were first appearing and looked to be the way of the future. This was also the period when black powder was being replaced by nitro powders which produced higher velocities and permitted the use of smaller ...
A Pair of "Barn Find" Rifles The Winchester Model 70 has long been called "The Rifleman's Rifle" since they hit the gun racks in gun dealers and hardware stores back in 1937. The Model 70 was, back then, considered an upgrade of Winchester's first bolt action offering, the Model 54, but it established for itself an ...
Mickey Thompson was born in the "Roaring Twenties" and developed a passion for speed early on. Working as a "pressman" for the Los Angles Times he accumulated enough money to get into drag racing and is known as the first to create the "slingshot" dragster in 1954 by moving the driver's seat behind the rear ...
