Pullman Model O Roadster
Around the turn of the twentieth century as automobile technology became established and viable a plethora of new car makers sprang up most of whom would not survive long. One of these was the York Motor…
Around the turn of the twentieth century as automobile technology became established and viable a plethora of new car makers sprang up most of whom would not survive long. One of these was the York Motor…
My grandfather on my mother’s side used to drive a brewery truck. Well, that’s not quite the case, the “truck” was called a dray and it was powered by a big and beautiful Clydesdale horse. That…
It was using a pump action .22 gallery rifle when I was first bitten by the gun bug. I was too young to remember if it was the Winchester or Colt version. But I was a…
I think the Citroën DS series was the post war car that Gabriel Voisin would have created, or very close to it. Gabriel Voisin was the first man to fly a sea-plane just as the Wright…
Our ears were designed before guns were so they tend not to cope with gunshots terribly well. As a result many if not most people who get involved in the shooting sports finish up with some…
Many years ago I acquired a Golden Labrador as a puppy and had high hopes of training him as a gun dog who would faithfully retrieve the ducks in duck season. I had a go at…
The Lincoln Model K began life in 1931 powered by a 6.3 liter (384.8 cu. in.) V8 engine producing 120hp. Wheelbase was 145″ and this luxury car was launched into direct competition with Rolls Royce, Cadillac,…
Many years ago down in the south of Australia I met a farmer who kept a .458 Winchester Magnum on the farm for kangaroo culling. At the time my rifle for long range kangaroo control way…
William G. Henderson and his brother Tom W. Henderson went into the motorcycle design and manufacturing business in 1911. William was the designer and Tom’s role was primarily in sales and management. From the start the…
Tom and William Henderson formed their Henderson Motorcycle Company in Detroit in 1912 and created one of the most exciting motorcycles the world had seen up to that time. The Henderson featured an in-line F head…