* Dr. Hypercube (via BibliOdyssey) shot this one over to us: François de Dardel has gone through a number of Tintin volumes, picked out the cars and trucks shown in them, and tried his hand at identifying them all. For a comic style, Hergé sure seemed intent on reproducing vehicles fairly accurately. * Thought the […]
One of the several images that Ford of Britain has dug up from their archives to celebrate their centennial is the one above, in which Ford workers are assembling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The aero engine assembly didn’t take place at Dagenham, rather at the factory in Trafford Park, Manchester, that Ford opened at the request […]
With a payload capacity of 262,000 pounds, the Saturn V is the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever used by NASA. So then what did NASA use to move it around? As the above photo from BigLorryBlog shows, NASA turned to a legendary 20-year old piece of war surplus. During World War II, the […]