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Two female cyclists pedal through a tight roadway during the Tour de France féminin, 1984.

Collection Development

The uphill race: Researching Canadian women in competitive cycling

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

A Mathis VL 333 light and economical automobile. Fernand de Laborderie, “Le 33e Salon de l’automobile.” La Nature, 15 October 1946, 331.

Road Transportation

A vision of the future for a firm running out of steam: The French Mathis VL333 light and economical automobile

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

An Aluminium français-Grégoire automobile, Cité de l’automobile – Musée national – Collection Schlumpf, Mulhouse, France, May 2010, Wikimedia.

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‘Tween two joints, he really did something: Jean Albert Grégoire and his magnificent automobiles, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

An example of the French CGE-Tudor electric automobile. C. Faroux, “Un progrès considérable de la voitures électrique.” La Vie automobile, 25 September 1941, 284.

Road Transportation

‘Tween two joints, he really did something: Jean Albert Grégoire and his magnificent automobiles, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

A Karou Karou all-terrain vehicle. Anon., “Opération Camping à Saint-Hilaire.” Photo-Journal, 26 July to 1 August 1971, 47.

Road Transportation

All-terrain, all-weather, all-pleasure: Karou Incorporée of Drummondville, Québec, and the Karou all-terrain vehicle

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

An advertisement showing an Italian SAME Buffalo tractor. Anon. “Advertising – Les Entreprises Biasotto & Hardy (Canada) Incorporée.” Le Bulletin des agriculteurs, July 1981, 26.

They were all the same, brothers to each other: Francesco Cassani, Eugenio Gabriele Cassani and the Società Accomandita Motori Endotermici (SAME)

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

The Folland / Hawker Siddeley Hoverstretcher in action. Anon., “Airborne comfort.” The Calgary Herald, 9 June 1961, 19.

Road Transportation

Developing the germ of an idea: Maurice Joseph Brennan and his hovercraft

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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

The cyclecar / “vélomobile” / “vélocar” / bicycle car / “automouche” with pedals and / or auxiliary engine Le Dauphin. Edmond Massip, “Un cyclecar à pédales et moteur auxiliaire.” La Vie automobile, 25 May 1941, 153.

The cyclecar / “vélomobile” / “vélocar” / bicycle car / “automouche” with pedals and / or auxiliary engine Le Dauphin: An (extreme?) solution to the fuel shortage in Paris during the German occupation in the Second World War

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hello there, my reading friend. Yours truly would like to converse with you on this day about a vehicle which looked somewhat unusual, strange and bizarre. As you might expect from reading some of the many issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee, I have a slight penchant for the unusual, the strange, and the bizarre. I am not denying it. If you do not mind, I will be brief, and… What is it, my reading friend? Is it skepticism that I see on your face? If I may quote, in translation of course

The Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum when it was owned by Standard Oil Company of New York. Anon., “Advertisement – Standard Oil Company of New York.” Aviation, May 1931, 22.

“‘Flying Windmill’ here on Wednesday”: The great journey of Donald Walker and the Pitcairn PCA-2 of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Greetings, my reading friend. May I wish you a happy International Workers’ Day? Yours truly must admit that I rather like union people, the gentlepeople who gave me paid holidays, a retirement pension, a reasonable work week and many other things I often took / take for granted, but I digress. As you may perhaps have noticed, I am also quite fond of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum of Ottawa, Ontario, one of Canada’s national museums. You may have been amused, or irritated, by the many

The Phillips Saucercraft hovercraft, Mount Hope, Ontario. Anon., “Flying saucer crack-up”. The Calgary Herald, 2 March 1961, 1.

A most intriguing INFO (Identified Non Flying Object): The Phillips Saucercraft hovercraft

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

As you may well imagine, the wonderful world of aeronautics and astronautics is chock full of wonderful flying machines. A surprisingly high number of these wonderful vehicles are, well, not very well known. While it is true that that this unfortunate lack of information plagued, plagues and will plague flying machines devised before 1914 and the start of the First World War, the fact is that some fairly recent aerial vehicles are not well documented. One of these would be a fine topic for our

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