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Drop handlebars (of the "ergo" or "anatomic" variety) Porteur type bicycle handlebar, from an Italian Bianchi bicycle, circa 1940 A bicycle handlebar [ 1 ] is the steering control for bicycles . It is the equivalent of a tiller for vehicles and vessels, as it is most often directly mechanically linked to a pivoting front wheel via a stem which ...
Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930. The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome ...
Roadmaster Mt Fury Roadmaster Cape Cod on New York street. Roadmaster Bicycles were first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company in 1936. In 1950, after purchasing the Roadmaster line of children's and youth bicycles from the Cleveland Welding Company, AMF entered the bicycle manufacturing business with its newly formed AMF Wheeled Goods Division.
Both quill and threadless stems come in a variety of bicycle handlebar clamp diameters. The ISO standard for the clamping area of a handlebar is 25.4 mm (1 inch), which is used on mountain bikes and many Japanese-made road handlebars. However, the Italian unofficial standard is 26.0 mm, which is the most common clamp size for road bars.
GunBroker.com was founded by Steven F. Urvan after eBay started restricting gun sales. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Urvan ran the company until it was acquired by Ammo, Inc in 2021. [ 5 ] At the closing of merger, it had $60 million in revenue and 6 million registered users.
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Casemate-mounted 5"/50 caliber gun on the USS North Dakota. A casemate is an armoured structure consisting of a static primary surface incorporating a limited-traverse gun mount: typically, this takes the form of either a gun mounted through a fixed armour plate (typically seen on tank destroyers and assault guns) or a mount consisting of a partial cylinder of armour "sandwiched" between ...
US Army 16-inch gun M1919 on barbette mount M1919; this was a high-angle mount with elevation to 65°. Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships. In recent [when?] naval usage, a barbette is a protective circular armour support for a heavy gun turret.