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Hej och hur mår ni? I am once again delighted to hear (read?) that you are doing well, my reading friend. The other chapter of the Volvo P1800 saga mentioned last week began in the United Kingdom in 1962. Err, actually, that chapter really began in 1928. It was indeed that year that a young British subject in search of for adventure completed his third novel, Meet the Tiger. Leslie Charteris, born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, introduced therein the character who made him famous throughout the

Hej och hur mår ni? I am delighted to hear (read?) that you are doing well, my reading friend. Yours truly wishes to dedicate this edition of our humble but galactically well-known blog / bulletin / thingee to an automobile. It is therefore with unrestrained pleasure that I offer you, in translation, the caption which accompanied the photograph of said automobile:

Would I be correct in assuming that you have owned, currently own or hope to own an automobile, my reading friend? If so, you are not alone. If not, you are not alone either. The automobile is undoubtedly one of the most significant forms of transportation this world has ever seen. It is also one of the most environmentally damaging one, but let us not dwell. Yours truly would like to bring to your attention an automobile you have probably never heard of, namely the Lincoln Continental 1950X /

Since the 1980s, female competitors have brought home many accolades, and not without their challenges.

I have a confession to make, my reading friend. I am not a big fan of automobiles. While I readily recognise the cultural, emotional, financial, industrial, mythical, political, practical, religious (?), social, technological, etc., importance of that mode of transport, the fact is that, around 2019, road transport despatched in the atmosphere of our good old Earth about 18% of the world’s anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. That is no small thing. This being said (typed?), yours truly must

Good day, my reading friend. Your presence suggests that the first part of our article on the life and work of French engineer Jean Albert Grégoire pleased you a little bit. So let us start without further delay the second part of said article. You will be delighted to learn that a project launched by Grégoire around 1943, while the Second World War raged on, had a relatively happy ending. In 1941, in parallel with his work on the CGE-Tudor electric city automobile mentioned in the first part of

Hail, my reading friend, and welcome to the wonderful world of science, technology and innovation. And no, there will be no mention of aeronautics this week. As a former colleague told me over 30 years ago (Hello, CF!), there is more to life than airplanes. Considering the photograph that adorns this article of our blog / bulletin / thingee, you can probably imagine that our subject for this week of August 2021 is an automobile or, more precisely, the designer of that automobile. With your

On this day of August 2021, yours truly would like to invite you to an examination of one of the many all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) which saw the light of day during the 1970s, the Karou Karou, produced by Karou Incorporée of Drummondville, Québec – one of the first series-produced ATVs in Québec. And yes, I realise that the issue of the weekly Photo-Journal which served as a launch deck for this issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee covers the period from 26 July to 1 August 1971. Yours truly

Buongiorno, my reading friend. As part of the efforts initiated by yours truly to diversify the content of our blog / bulletin / thingee, I would like to offer you today a text, a short text, yes, yes, short, of an agricultural nature. Our story began in Italy, in April 1906 and September 1909, with the births of Francesco and Eugenio Gabriele Cassani. Their father, Paolo Cassani, was the owner of Società Anonima Paolo Cassani e figli, a small farm machinery manufacturing and repair firm which

How is life, my reading friend? One hopes you have no need of the device shown in the photograph with which yours truly introduces this week’s brief, yes, yes, brief, edition of our blog / bulletin / thingee. An edition or issue on hovercraft. Yeah! Sorry. As was mentioned in a previous issue of our you know what, in June 1959, a British firm by the name of Saunders-Roe Limited tested one of the first full size / successful air cushion vehicles, or hovercraft, the Saunders Roe SR.N1. Does the