vintage fuel pump with a slight resemblance to the robot in 'Lost in Space'

News article.  See earlier posts on Big Tree.

'I'm so pleased I discovered real books'

Heritage group launches campaign to save Scottish Cottage where the Harley Davidson story began

On the Daily Record (Scotland):

Davidson Cottage, located between Forfar and Brechin, was home to the famous motorcycle family before they emigrated to the US.

In Angus, located between Forfar and Brechin you'll find an unassuming little cottage that just so happens to be where the global success story that is Harley Davidson once began.

Davidson Cottage was the childhood home of William C. Davidson, the father of the three brothers who would go on to join forces with friend Bill Harley to create the world's most famous motorcycle company.

However, a group dedicated to preserving the brand's heritage fear for the cottage's future after it was put up for sale after the current owners decided they wanted to retire.

The Davidson Legacy Preservation Group (DLPG) are now worried the site could be knocked down by developers to build new houses.

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if it's overloaded too much it won't go, literally

 

Steam Inc.'s ex-NZR passenger car A1975

"A1975 was built at the Otahuhu railway workshops as a 56 ft First Class Coupe Day Car in Nov 1945.

"Between 1937 and 1945 157 of the “standard” 56 ft cars were built at Addington and Otahuhu workshops. Several different formats were built including First Class Cars (several variations), 108 Second Class, Day/Sleeper composites, 1st/2nd composites, 14 & 16 berth Sleepers, Ambulance Cars and one Vice Regal Car. They became the standard main line passenger vehicle for many decades. The final examples were not disposed of by KiwiRail until 2018. In later years most were extensively rebuilt to form the named trains of the seventies and eighties.

"A1975 was in a batch of six cars that had a six seat compartment that could be reserved for private on family parties. These particular cars were not fitted with the pressure ventilation system used in other 56 ft first class cars. It was the last of the iconic 56 ft cars built."

More info here

fly to Batavia by KLM in a DC-2, 1934

Batavia is now Jakarta, Indonesia, see earlier posts.  Info on the DC-2 of which 198 were built is here

Coverage on the KLM blog is here

1964 poster for the 4th critérium international de vitesse motocycliste et essais des voitures des 24h

Roughly "international motorcycle speed test used to classify and eliminate the competitors and 24-hour vehicle trials."

Swedish 0-8-0 steam locomotive preserved in Canada

This was used on the former 33 km (20.5 mile) Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield railway in Quebec. Info on the loco

1934 Oldsmobile coupe art

Swedish State Railways buses, 1920s

A Scania-Vabis, Tidaholm and a Garford at Dingle station which dates from 1903 and still exists.