Prestige gunmaker Hollis Bentley & Playfair was established in 1911 by the joining together of Hollis with Bentley & Playfair which had both been formed during the early-mid 1800’s. Hollis Bentley & Playfair had a retail…
Back in the days when I was involved in competitive pistol shooting I was shooting with a Walther OSP for the Olympic Rapid Fire match, a Walther GSP for the Standard Pistol Match, and a Vostock…
If considering the perfect gun for the “World wide one gun hunter” then most of us think about a rifle chambered for a common “all around” cartridge that meets legal minimum caliber requirements everywhere we intend…
Whether you are going to a car auction to pick up something interesting, or have just bought something from “Bring A Trailer“, or have a competition car you need to transport to the track, you need…
American author Ernest Hemingway owned and used a .577 Nitro Express double rifle, and the caliber was popular as an emergency stopper of dangerous game, especially noted as a charge stopper. There is little difference between…
Those who are aficionados of the BMW R Series motorcycles may not realize that the horizontally opposed Boxer engine of the R Series was first created when a BMW engineer named Max Fritz reverse engineered a British…
Although we tend to associate twin cam engines with double valves (i.e. four valves per cylinder) with the late twentieth century and the present day in fact this level of sophistication dates all the way back…
Porsche’s 935 was the racing version of what was then the fastest accelerating road car. Predictably there were those who wanted a 935 to drive on the road and one of those people was racing sponsor…
When Colt ceased production of their double-action revolvers back in 1999 there was much wailing and gnashing of the teeth amongst the Colt aficionados. It remained possible to get a Colt Python made to special order…
Have you ever wondered why it is that the most interesting and often the better cars are the ones that people generally don’t buy? Back in 1966 British car maker Jensen introduced the Jensen Interceptor as…