four.cycle
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1925
Vintage Ephemera
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1925
Provincial
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I chose a set of Lincoln logs as a Christmas gift for our great-grandson last year. His name is Lincoln! They quickly became his favorite toy.
Stubby1743
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four.cycle
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1899 Hibbard Spencer Bartlett & Co. catalog Iver Johnson ad pp 1319
1899 Hibbard Spencer Bartlett & Co. catalog Smith & Wesson ad pp 1320
four.cycle
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1911 R.H. Macy & Co. ad pp 50
1911 R.H. Macy & Co. ad pp 51
Stubby1743
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Mid 1980's
^^ Thats cool. After he retired from wrenching on school buses, my Grandpa spent the last half of the 70’s and all of the 80s rallying around country roads in Diesel Rabbits and Foxes. Wearing one out every three years. Foreshadowing the WRX kids of the 2000’s in spirit and attitude.
WisJim
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Dug out some old VW literature that I had accumulated, back when I had sheds of VWs and parts. The Rabbit brochure is 1980, others from 1984 to 1987. That doesn't seem that old to me, but it might to some of you.
Farmer J.
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That triggers s a bit of nostalgia. One of my Cousins bought a 1980 Volkswagen Rabbit and took it to Alaska, working on the pipeline. It did 60,000 miles (100,000 K ) before it was first used on a paved highway! No mechanical faults or breakdowns at all.Dug out some old VW literature that I had accumulated, back when I had sheds of VWs and parts. The Rabbit brochure is 1980, others from 1984 to 1987. That doesn't seem that old to me, but it might to some of you.
WisJim
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My father-in-law had a 1980 diesel Rabbit and he would get upset if it got below 50mpg on a tank of fuel. He drove it for years and then my middle son got it and drove it until it was done.
Orangina
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For fans of old Gedore tools:
Text at the bottom right: Better customer service with Gedore tools
(I have this old edition because of an article on the VW Karmann Ghia)
Text at the bottom right: Better customer service with Gedore tools
(I have this old edition because of an article on the VW Karmann Ghia)
four.cycle
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1898 Cycles Clement ad
1898 Kellar Self Decapitation
1898 Alphonse Mucha JOB ad
Farmer J.
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Very nice, but I still prefer the 1895 Michelin bicycle tyre girls!
1898 Cycles Clement ad
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WisJim
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Montgomery Wards 1955 Fishing and Hunting catalog. The selection and the prices make you wonder why you didn't buy everything in the book--oh, that's right I was only 7 years old and my folks bought a house in town with 4 extra lots for $1,500 right around then. And he had a decent job as a high school teacher. A dollar back then is equivalent to over $11 today. I remember my dad having an 8mm movie camera like the one in this catalog, must have been a major purchase for them at the time.
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My fourth firehouse, where I worked from 2001-2005, was built in the 30's.
It was built with a single-post H-frame lift in one bay. By my time, the lift had been loooong-ago decomissioned, and the old lube-bay
had been re-purposed to lawnmower and weedeater storage.
But, somehow, the lift instructions and the shadow-painted lube rack tool board remained.
Knee-action was GM's name for IFS between 1934 and 1954.
My fourth firehouse, where I worked from 2001-2005, was built in the 30's.
It was built with a single-post H-frame lift in one bay. By my time, the lift had been loooong-ago decomissioned, and the old lube-bay
had been re-purposed to lawnmower and weedeater storage.
But, somehow, the lift instructions and the shadow-painted lube rack tool board remained.
Knee-action was GM's name for IFS between 1934 and 1954.
d42jeep
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This Alemite grease gun should be hanging on the lower left of that board.
-Don
-Don
four.cycle
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1945 Flying Boeing ad pp 69
1945 Flying Boeing ad pp 14
four.cycle
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1945 Flying Wright Cyclone 18 ad
1945 Flying Wright cutaway ad
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^^It’s fascinating to think that so many from that era were produced by people whose job title was “illustrator”, not “artist”, and yet they clearly held more talent in their little finger than so many of us will ever experience.
four.cycle
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Still searching for that perfect gift for the grandchildren?
1929 Edward K. Tryon catalog
1929 Edward K. Tryon catalog
1929 Edward K. Tryon catalog
1929 Edward K. Tryon catalog
WisJim
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Some pamphlets and booklets about wiring your house and farm. The "Planning Your Farmstead Wiring and Lighting" is 1953, and the others are 1946 ("Put in Plenty of Reddy Boxes") through the early 60s. 
Private Lugnutz
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Indeed! The pen-and-ink work on the drill bit is just as interesting as that of the speeding object in danger of becoming a "burning mass of twisted, white hot metal."
Thanks for posting. (Tangentially, when I see "Ingersoll," I think Ingersol-Rand, but this is a completely different branch of the sane surname.)JTSlocomb
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Just finished digitizing and uploading this group of ephemera to archive.org. These items were originally included with the micrometer when purchased.
The appx. date of printing is confirmed by the mention of Catalog No. 15, which was published in 1918.
One unique detail is that the micrometer adjustment instruction sheet is printed on white paper, compared to the usual red paper. We are still researching as to when the change was made between the two.
Here are the links to each item:
J.T. Slocomb 1918 Micrometer Adjustment Instructions
J.T. Slocomb - Micrometer No. 26 Leaflet 191
J.T. Slocomb Micrometer Cases Leaflet From 1918
J.T. Slocomb 1918 Decimal Chart
More uploads will be coming soon.
---Spyke, JTSlocomb.org
The appx. date of printing is confirmed by the mention of Catalog No. 15, which was published in 1918.
One unique detail is that the micrometer adjustment instruction sheet is printed on white paper, compared to the usual red paper. We are still researching as to when the change was made between the two.
Here are the links to each item:
J.T. Slocomb 1918 Micrometer Adjustment Instructions
J.T. Slocomb 1918 Micrometer Adjustment Instructions : J.T. Slocomb : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is the set of instructions to adjust a JT Slocomb micrometer, published in 1918.The date can be confirmed as appx. 1918 from the mention of Catalog No. 15...
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J.T. Slocomb - Micrometer No. 26 Leaflet 191
J.T. Slocomb - Micrometer No. 26 Leaflet 1918 : J.T. Slocomb : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This was included in the box with the purchase of a micrometer, advertising the No. 26 Drop Forged 1 Micrometer.This is dated from appx. 1918 because of the...
archive.org
J.T. Slocomb Micrometer Cases Leaflet From 1918
J.T. Slocomb Micrometer Cases Leaflet From 1918 : J.T. Slocomb : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is an advertisement that was included in the micrometer box when purchased.This is dated as appx. 1918 due to other ephemera that was in the box that this...
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J.T. Slocomb 1918 Decimal Chart
J.T. Slocomb 1918 Decimal Chart : J.T. Slocomb : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is the paper decimal chart and guarantee that was included with purchase of a micrometer.The mention of catalog 15 confirms the date of appx. 1918.
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More uploads will be coming soon.
---Spyke, JTSlocomb.org
Stubby1743
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1924
My prized ephemeral is a Bonney employee timecard. I found it when I pulled a small file out of a Bonney-marked handle. The rolled up timecard was utilized to wedge the file more securely. I flattened it and paired it with a magazine advertisement featuring a couple mechanics. 
Private Lugnutz
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That's a fantastic example, LS!
I found this rather pushy penny postcard, being used as a bookmarker, inside an old book that I bought at the flea market today.
I don't know if Mr. Lofland followed through on the service station's advice, but based on the postmark, roughly 60 days or 2,000 miles later, we were at war with Japan and the Third Reich.
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People might laugh at the 30 day lubrication interval, not me. My wife has run paper routes since 1989, and needs a full LOF every 25 days. One Toyota, two Fords, one Pontiac, three Subarus, one Kia, three Nissans, one Cadillac, and two Hondas later, she has a well earned retirement coming on 3/31/24, and I have enough data points that I will never, ever, ever buy another American-made vehicle.
Found this today, 20 pages of tips. WTF is an “electric torch”??
Found this today, 20 pages of tips. WTF is an “electric torch”??
four.cycle
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1945 Flying Pioneer Parachute ad pp 102
Private Lugnutz
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In England it's a flashlight, but judging by the age of that flyer, my hunch is they're probably talking about a little AC mini-welder. My old man had one. Homemade. Scared the **** out of me and my brothers. It's just two very thin gauge copper rods stuck in a file handle. When you squeezed them together it made a small arc. I don't remember how it was wired up to a plug.
Crazy! Yeah the only thing that came to my mind was the technique for cutting expanded metal with 6011 electrode cranked all the way, but I knew that wasn’t what they were talking about.
That’s pretty cool.
To add to the theme, I suppose a roll of Rigger’s tape can be ephemera, seeing as how it’s printed and whatnot:
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four.cycle
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1945 Flying Studebaker Champion ad pp 99
Thanks for making me feel young, that stuff’s 29 years old!!
The electric torch…thanks! for digging that up, and wow! I don’t have the words. It’s like farting on an elevator, wrong on many different levels. Just the fact that a kid could unknowingly plug the handset into a wall outlet and bypass the resistor gang…..
But it, and many many other contemporary Popular Mechanics - style projects make me think that things have inverted a bit. Then - More know how and time than disposable income. Now - 95% of the guys who bought a cheap welder today at HF couldn’t read that wiring diagram.
JTSlocomb
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The J.T. Slocomb Catalog No. 17 – British Version has finally been digitized and uploaded to Archive,org.
The link is located here: https://archive.org/details/JT-Slocomb-Catalog-17
There are a few pages that need to be re-scanned and replaced which will be completed shortly.
As always, this will be completely accessible for free, without a charge, subscription, or signup required. Knowledge should always be free and not with held.
Catalog No. 16 will be digitized next. There are several different versions of it, and we are figuring out the best way to display the differences between the.
Have a wonderful New Year,
---Spyke
The link is located here: https://archive.org/details/JT-Slocomb-Catalog-17
There are a few pages that need to be re-scanned and replaced which will be completed shortly.
As always, this will be completely accessible for free, without a charge, subscription, or signup required. Knowledge should always be free and not with held.
Catalog No. 16 will be digitized next. There are several different versions of it, and we are figuring out the best way to display the differences between the.
Have a wonderful New Year,
---Spyke
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four.cycle
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1959