John Moses Browning was a prolific firearms designer. Trained by his father Jonathan Browning in his gun shop from the age of seven John M. Browning created a number of the iconic firearms of the nineteenth…
At the beginning of the seventies Italian sports car maker Abarth was absorbed into the Fiat empire which involved coming under the corporate strategy setting dictated by Fiat’s top levels of management. Abarth having had a…
Built by Birmingham Small Arms owned Daimler Cars (by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen), with a V8 engine designed by the man who created the Ariel Square 4 motorcycle engine, and with input from Jaguar,…
There’s a nice series of videos on The Grand Prix Car 1945-1965 available on YouTube. Each episode is about 25 minutes long and there is much archival footage and interviews with such people as Stirling Moss,…
If you don’t want to finish up like me after decades of shooting – with some hearing loss – then it’s wise to put some effort into protecting your hearing before it’s too late. Hearing loss…
Desperate people tend to resort to desperate measures. So it was in 1916 as German troops faced the menace of the new allied tanks that they were driven to try to find a counter measure and…
In Europe combination guns and double rifles are relatively popular, partly because of their practicality, but also in part because of restrictions on firearms ownership in certain countries. In Europe there can also be a certain…
Richard “Dick” Seaman was the only British racing driver to be admitted to the Mercedes-Benz “Silver Arrows” Grand Prix racing team in the period before the Second World War. Born on 4th February 1913 as the…
Back in 1928 a young man named Edward Turner came up with a design for a motorcycle engine that he believed would be a world beater. He went from manufacturer to manufacturer showing his idea and…
In a recent post we looked at the Norton Classic, a twin rotor Wankel engined motorcycle that probably should have become more popular than it was. Interestingly an example of the predecessor of the Norton Classic…