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A 1950s Studebaker and a 1960s Chevy Corvair, rusting together, during a visit to my favorite classic car graveyard in -
Detroit, Michigan
For Macro Mondays' theme "Redux" from 2017 I chose the week of September 11's theme, Rust. Oh, and Happy 2018!
Taken for the Macro Mondays theme of "rust" I couldn't believe how hard it would be to find something rusty in my house!
I didn`t change the colour of the plant.Fern just "rusted" perhaps because of poor soil. Light is natural.
Pancras Square, Central London
Within living memory this area was full of the rust that comes with neglect, and it seems that now the area has smartened up and become desirable so has the rust...
A six image focus stack, manually composited, of some flotsam and jetsam on the rocky "shores" of Pt. Fermin in San Pedro, CA. Photographed 01-02-21.
Mid 1950's Simplex Automatic
Simplex was founded by Paul Treen (father of United States Congressman and Louisiana Governor David Conner Treen) in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1920s with an initial investment of $25.00 Treen had been a dealer in Harley-Davidson motorcycles and had pitched them the idea of making a lightweight motorcycle for young riders. When Harley-Davidson rejected the idea, Treen decided to enter the market himself and designed his Servi-Cycle. The Simplex Servi-Cycle was introduced in 1935.
Although Simplex Manufacturing Corporation produced motorcycles for over 20 years, the last Simplex Automatics looked almost the same as the company's original 1935 Simplex Servi-Cycle motorcycle. Paul Treen would often visit the factory's tool shop and work with the engineers on new ideas himself, resulting in continuous improvements to Simplex products instead of annual new model introductions.
The two-stroke engine had a rotary valve and an "overhung" crankshaft with only one main bearing. A kick-starter was added by 1953.
Western Auto sold Simplex motorcycles under the Wizard brand in the mid-1950s.
Simplex's minimalist philosophy was maintained throughout the company's history, whose designs changed little after 1935. By the 1950s Simplex's designs were primitive, leading to the end of Servi-Cycle and Automatic production in 1960. Simplex continued to make minibikes and karts using proprietary small engines until 1975, when Simplex went out of business. Treen had sold the company three years earlier, in 1972