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McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Limited was a printing company that ended up creating one of the best known glue brands Seccotine. The company printed books, placards and postcards. Seccotine The company didn’t stick to their main product as a printing house. In 1894 Sohn Stevensen got a patent for their refined liquid fish glue Seccotine. […]
Airport Surface Friction Tester This Saab was used at the airport in Bornholm for many years. The boot has been converted with a fifth wheel, that can be lowered onto the runway. A brake is applied, in order to measure the surfaces friction. Before an incoming plane arrived, the car could be deployed to see […]
Most people see the Chain of Rocks Bridge, while driving the world famous Route 66, as the bridge crosses the Mississippi river. The bridge has a very distinct 22 degree bend, in the middle, that gave truck and bus drivers a few surprises during it’s active years. The bridge was opened in 1929, and closed […]
Route 66 is one of the most popular road trip destinations in the world, with thousands of people travelling from Chicago to LA every year, on everything from bicycles to RV campers. Route-66 is also called “The Mother road”, and was the first interstate road in America that was covered with asphalt from end to […]
The Gasconade River Bridge was built in the 1920s, and was a part of the old Route 66, between Chicago Illinois and Los Angeles in California. In December 2014 the bridge was closed permanently, after having been degraded as a emergency bypass road for several years. During the flooding of Central Missouri in December 2015, […]
Submarines Molch Unknown items (help for identification appreciated) Unknown German steamroller. When the German occupational forces were thrown out of the small Danish island Bornholm, they left some equipment behind. One of these items was a damaged steamroller, photographed below, that was left at the local airport outside the main town Rønne. It was given […]
Vulcan Motors and Engineering Company Limited was created by the two brothers Thomas and Joseph Hampson in 1902. They built their first experimental car together in 1899, and after creating the company in 1902 they began producing their first Vulcan cars, with a 4 BHP belt driven engine. In 1914 they began producing commercial vehicles, […]
Charles H Roe Limited was a Coach builder based in Leeds. The company was founded in 1923 by Charles Henry Roe, and was specialized in building buses. The company was taken over by Park Royal Vehicles in 1947, and later Leyland Motors in 1962. Construction of buses under the Charles H. Roe name continued until […]
In Sweden, it’s legal to drive a tractor at a younger age, than you are allowed to drive a car. At the same time you are allowed to modify a car, and register it as a tractor.This has turned into a tradition with a cult following, of building the so called EPA’s and A-Tractors. EPA […]
George Eastman started what would become Kodak, by manufacturing dry plates for photography in Rochester, New York in 1880. Eastman founded the “Eastman Dry Plate Company” on January 1st 1881, together with his partner, Henry A. Strong. This company was renamed The Eastman Kodak Company on the 23rd of may 1892. Cameras The Brownie camera […]
