Scotsman John Farquharson (1833-1893) patented his legendary falling block action in 1872. He’d been working on improving single shot actions for a while including the Martini but his new design for his falling block action was…
At the beginning of the “Jet Age” in the fifties and sixties, as the U2 spyplane was developed and the British and French got together to create the Concord(e) car manufacturers decided to get into the…
The name Talbot-Lago may not be familiar to all but the Talbot marque has a long heritage dating back to 1903, and a Talbot was the first car ever to actually do 100 miles in one…
The Mauser 77 was probably the best rear locking modern bolt action to appear in the seventies and eighties period when manufacturers were trying to “modernize” their bolt action rifles with moves to push feed as…
British motorcycle maker Velocette began back in 1905 as a partnership between two men; William Gue and John Taylor (who later changed his name to Goodman). Their first motorcycle they called the Veloce and then later…
In our previous post we looked at Henry Ford’s plan to create a V8 for the masses and it is worth our also having a look at the sort of car that was not for the…
When we read about Henry Ford and the story of the creation of the V8 engine that went into the 1932 Ford Model 18 it seems little short of a miracle that the engine was successfully…
The Henderson was the bike that in 1922 beat Harley-Davidson fair and square. Henderson had been showing their motorcycle to the Chicago Police Department and the police were interested in this four cylinder bike that Henderson…
The Colt Single Action Army revolver is often described as “The gun that won the West”, and along with the Winchester and Marlin lever actions that’s pretty much true. That being said the Colt SAA was…
The first Shelby Cobra, chassis number CSX2000, is coming up for sale in August 2016. Back in 1961 AC cars of Thames Ditton, in the county of Surrey in Britain were making their own range of…