Vol. 60 No. 02 February, 2018

IN THE NEWS UPCOMING EVENTS The temperature may be dropping outside, but here at the CTMHV things are heating up for another great year! Staff are busy preparing the 2018 Event Guide which should be available soon. Members will be happy to know that our 2018 February Rosters are updated, published and ready for pick up in the office. This is the time 17th Indoor of year for office staff and volunteers to get to those projects that sometimes get Automotive Flea overlooked or pushed back during the rest of the year. Staff have been busy with Market year end stats and reports and 2018 plans and goals. We start the month off with the Indoor Automotive Flea Market on the 17th followed by the Board Meeting 20th Board and the General Meeting. Don’t forget to join us for our Meeting Cruise-In on the 22nd! We anxiously await the Ground Hog’s 21st General Report after this mish mash of a winter that we have been having. An early spring (6 more weeks either way) will be a Meeting welcoming change. We wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s 22nd Cruise-In Day! Stay dry, warm and safe! March New! Indoor flea market-March 24th and 25th 4th Militaria Hunting & Brand new! For the first time, Sportsmen Show the CTMHV will be hosting an indoor flea market. For those 15th Cruise-In who love a good yard sale, this is 20th Board Meeting the event for you! The event will 21st General take place in the Hall. Vendors are encouraged to sell any items Meeting that are legally allowed to be sold 24th & 25th New in Ontario. This new event will Indoor Flea Market follow the same manner as the Spring and Fall outdoor flea markets. There will be an admission charge of $3.00 per person (under 12 free). Proceeds support museum programs. There is also a fee for vendors. We are offering one table per vendor initially as interest in this event has been overwhelming, though vendors may be given additional tables pending * Don’t forget to availability. Contact the office send in your 2018 for more details or to add your membership dues name to the list of vendors. to Don Appleyard * Vol. 60 No. 02 Page 2 VENDORS WANTED FOR AUTOMOTIVE FLEA MARKET Looking for something to do to rid yourself of those winter blues? Then mark your calendars for Saturday, February 17th! If you love working on cars then the CTMHV is the place to be! Once again the museum will be hosting an indoor Automotive Flea Market! Stay nice and dry and toasty warm while you peruse a wide selection of vintage, classic, antique and even newer automotive parts and accessories for your ride! You never know what you might find, it just may be that unique part you have been searching for all of your life! Find the part to make your special gal complete (or if your vehicle is a male, your special guy). Side Note: According to https://www.theglobeandmail.com,in March of last year, “Forty-nine per cent of drivers assign a gender to their vehicle. Of these, 88 per cent of women view their ride as “female” – compared with 55 per cent of men who do so as well. Over all, there are twice as many “female” cars (32 per cent) on the road as “male” (16 per cent). Back to the topic at hand, if you are interested in being a vendor, please contact the office as tables were still available at time of publication. This is a great opportunity to get out of the house with family or friends or even on your own to see some interesting items, find what you’ve been looking for, chat with some of our members, meet some new friends with the same interests and have a great breakfast or lunch in our fabulous 50s Diner!

Event Bookings Membership Dues As we continue into the new year, life changes are CTMHV wishes to remind all members that already starting to happen. From engagements to Membership Dues were due in pregnancies, celebration is always in order! The January 2018. Membership dues are CTMHV offers a great venue for a variety of $35. Life members are once again events. Next time someone asks where they can asked to please donate $20.00 to have a wedding, baby or wedding shower, or help offset the cost of the even a birthday party, why not mention the newsletter. All members, including CTMHV? We would love to continue to help life members, are also asked to and celebrate life’s special moments! contribute $5.00 to the flower fund.

WOW! CTMHV volunteers are amazing! Emily tallied up all of the recorded volunteer hours and came to a whopping total of over 6700 volunteer hours given in 2017! We know there are many more hours that were not recorded including many from our own staff and Board of Directors. The CTMHV would like to thank all of the volunteers who contributed and helped us keep the welcome mat out in 2017. Please remember to record your hours in the volunteer book as those numbers are important statistics when it comes to grants and to having a true picture of what it actually takes to operate a 25,000 square foot transportation museum & a pioneer village! THANK YOU! Page 3 Through the Windshield Winner of 2017 Raffle Car Rosters are Ready! After a very successful Hot off the year selling raffle tickets Press! on our 1965 Cutlass, the The 2018 winner was drawn on Member Roster December 31st. As is Complete and reported in the January Ready for newsletter, the lucky Pick-up ticket number was Thank-you to #2846,which belonged to Emily and Don Mr. Laroque of Windsor. for getting it Mr. Laroque is pictured finished. at left receiving the keys from HVSO Chairman, Harry Bergman. The winning ticket was purchased on site at Remember to pick the Spring Car Show. Every year tickets are sold at all CTMHV yours up today! events as well as off site at locations such as Devonshire Mall, Zehrs Kingsville, Essex Canadian Tire, Kingsville IDA, the Harrow Fair, Sunsplash, Essex Classic Car Show, Bothwell Car Show, Chatham Retrofest, and more. Tickets are always Raffle Tickets Coming Soon! available for purchase in our Gift Shop right here at the museum. Many thanks to our numerous dedicated volunteers who take time out of their schedules to sell tickets for us. We look forward to another successful year of ticket sales on our beautiful 1965 Mercury. Tickets should be available in a few weeks and are currently being printed. Thank-you to all who supported and continue to support the Children’s Education Program by buying and selling tickets! Militaria, Hunting & Sportsmen Show The tickets for the 1965 Mercury will soon The second Militaria, be ready and available for purchase. Hunting & Sportsmen Show Tickets will be sold in our Gift Shop, and at of the year takes place on various events throughout the year. We will March 4th. Following the let you know once tickets are available. line of sight set in place by the January show, this event is sure to be another great Monthly CruiseCruise----InInInIn one! Vendor spots are filling up fast, so be sure to contact Just a reminder that the CTMHV hosts the office if you would like a Winter Cruise-Ins every third Thursday of table. Admission is only the Winter Months. This month’s Cruise-In $5.00 per person with all is scheduled for February 22nd at 6pm. proceeds benefiting the Come on out and enjoy a delicious dinner, museum programming. The as well as great cars & conversation! You 50s Diner will be open for can’t beat the price and the bar will be breakfast and lunch. Please open! note, only a breakfast buffet will be available and a limited lunch menu with only combos during the show. Page 4 Through the Windshield Love, Leave a Light on- The history of light and the longest lasting light bulb The in the window during Christmas time can be traced back to the Irish around 1691- 1778 when the British Government created the Penal Laws. Irish Catholics would light a candle in the window and leave the door unlocked to allow the priest to sneak in to say mass. Over time, the light became a beacon of hope for any passerby during the season. The candle alerted strangers that there would be food and shelter welcome to them. When settlers immigrated to North America, they continued the tradition. As one blogger wrote: “As a beacon of light for ships guides them safely, so on land the light guides them to safety on land”. “During Colonial times, the candle in the window took on a few different meanings. Following the Irish tradition, it was a beacon of safety, letting visitors know that their home would offer them refuge.” During pioneer times, this was a practice that served as a guiding light for people as they traveled to visit their neighbors. The candle also represented a signal that a family member that was away, either at war or for other reason. The family lit the candle every night in hopes that their missing member would find their way home safely. “A candle in the window could also represent joyous news, like the birth of a baby”. A light in the window was also used to alert runaway slaves that it was a safe harbor to stop. According to Lucy Worsley, the history of domestic has been governed by economics, snobbery and tradition, and an occasional dangerous desire for novelty. Just think about life without electricity. One of the biggest changes in domestic life ever must have been the moment when the lights came on in the late nineteenth century. Apart from the fireplace, for centuries, were the poor person’s light-source. Repeatedly coating a rush in hot fat and then building up the layers created “a rather scrawny candle”. Only the rich could afford beeswax . The less expensive tallow candle was made from animal fat. Oil lamps, began to replace candles in the later eighteenth century which was then replaced by gas light in factories, theatres and street-lighting long before being adapted in the home. By the 1840s, gas began to make a tentative appearance in the urban home as it gradually became a middle-class must-have. “The use of gas for light, and later for heat, took place much earlier in Europe and in the United States than in Canada”. Gas did however, have many drawbacks. When electricity arrived in the 1880s, it was very expensive. “A light bulb cost the same as the average week’s wages, and you needed your own home generator. The widespread adoption of electricity was delayed for many years The Centennial Bulb because each generator had a different output”. The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901. It is in Livermore California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department. Due to its longevity, the bulb has been noted by the Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and . It is often cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs. In fact, there is evidence to support that a group of light bulb manufacturers got together to create the Phoebus Cartel to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs by appropriating market territories and fixing the useful life of such bulbs. It was founded on December 23, 1924 and made for a convenient way to lower costs and standardize the life expectancy of light bulbs at 1,000 hours (down from 2,500 hours), while at the same time raising prices without fear of competition. The Centennial Light was originally a 30-watt or 60-watt bulb but at last measure, it was emitting about the same light as a 4-watt . The hand-blown, carbon-filament common light bulb was manufactured in Shelby, Ohio by the Shelby Electric Company in the late 1890s. Many just like it still exist and can be found functioning. Evidence suggests that the bulb has hung in at least four locations. Its unusual longevity was first noticed in 1972 by reporter Mike Dunstan. After weeks of interviewing people who had lived in Livermore all their lives, he contacted the Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and General Electric who all confirmed it as the longest-lasting bulb known in existence. Sources: http://wasatchshutter.com/the-history-of-the-candle-in-the-window/ , http://www.lucyworsley.com/a-quick-history-of-domestic-lighting/ , http://www.amishnews.com/featurearticles/germanchristmas.htm , http://faculty.marianopolis.edu, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light Thank you to Connor for the idea for this story Vol. 60 No. 02 Page 5 2017 OJCP Grant allowed restoration of 1874 Town Hall- a Labour of Love What set out as one man’s desire to take on a labour of love has turned into a community project with a benefit to local school children. For years, the Town Hall sat in Heritage Village closed to visitors as it was being used only for storage of chairs and planters and an idle printing press. When Doug arrived on the scene he developed a fondness for the building and often mentioned to the curator and other staff that he would be interested in restoring the building to its original splendour, the purpose for which it was first brought to the village years ago. While the building wasn’t originally a Town Hall it was determined by the Board of Directors at the time that it would be modeled after one. When the museum was approached by the OJCP representative interested in partnering with another project, Megan got on board and proposed that restoring the Town Hall and creating a new print shop be part of the equation. With the help of one OJCP employee, Paul and many staff and volunteers including Doug, Bob, Larry, Claude and others, the Town Hall is finally 95% complete. The last thing to do is to put the rest of the furniture in and to archive any new additions. The building will be ready by Spring for the new grade 7 & 8 Race to Confederation program designed by University of Windsor Students, Vicki & Joelle under the guidance and support of the Manager of Education. This has truly been a community project and many thanks go to all who were involved. See photos above for the progression of work completed. Page 6 Through the Windshield FROM THE EDUCATION DESK In January, the education program hosted 40 grade three students from Chatham who braved the winter chill while they participated in a pioneer program with Tom, Nik and Lisa. We also hosted some great boys and girls from the Harrow Beavers and Cubs for a museum visit. February will be a quiet month in terms of participants, but will be very busy behind the scenes. We would also like to thank the Knights of Columbus, Chapter 8682, once again for their very generous donation of another new bicycle, helmet and lock to be used in the 2018 Children’s Education Bicycle Raffle. It is greatly appreciated. Lisa

For the Love of Hemi www.pinterest.co.uk Who doesn’t love a Hemi? Some people may not be familiar with the story about the very short love affair between the Daytona 500 and the all-powerful Chrysler Hemi engine. “Known by the trademark Hemi, Chrysler put out a series of I6 and V8 gasoline engines with hemispherical chambers. Three different types of Hemi engines have been built by Chrysler for automobiles: the first (known as the Chrysler Fire Power engine) from 1951 to 1958, the second from 1964 to 1971, and the third beginning in 2003. Although Chrysler is most identified with the use of ‘Hemi’ as a marketing term, many other auto manufacturers have incorporated similar designs”. In the early days, most automobiles were designed with a “flat head” piston design. This was not the most ideal when it came to performance because it allowed for a small amount of volume and a large surface area within the cylinder head. The Hemi engine was designed with a hemispherical cylinder head which maximizes volume and minimizes the surface area thus lessening the amount of heat and absorbing the combustion with a goal to reduce losses. The trouble with this is that it was difficult to get a high compression ratio which is essential to having an efficient engine. The revision to curve the piston made for too much weight and too large of a force to overcome. Nonetheless, the Hemi was a powerful engine and could easily prove it. Today’s more modern engine design is not as defined as the hemi, but is more flattened which is needed for a more compact combustion chamber. “Most cars today use the Pentroof (Penta) design which allows for four valves per cylinder creating better airflow, producing relatively high horsepower for displacement, for both racing engines and engines for passenger cars. Among the advantages is a faster burn time of the air-fuel mix. It is similar in concept to the Hemi engine, both in design and purpose, but a hemispherical cylinder head is limited to only two valves without the use of a more complex sub-rocker assembly. The four-valve Penta engine design was invented by Peugeot of France, to be first used in the 1911 Indianapolis 500 race.” (Wikipedia) So why was the Hemi banned from Nascar? “Nothing screams ‘rebel’ like being banned. In 1965, that's what happened to the bad*** Hemi. The roarin' engine was ineligible for the NASCAR season. Hemis had totally dominated the stock-car tracks in 1964, winning 26 of the 62 races, which had more than a little something to do with the 1965 ban”. ( https://www.quartoknows.com) “NASCAR patriarch Bill France told Chrysler its powerful new engine would be banned–not for technological reasons–but because it wasn’t readily available in cars from Dodge or Plymouth assembly lines. France had done the same thing to Ford just before the 1964 Daytona 500, ruling that Ford’s new OHC 427 wasn’t eligible because it wasn’t a production engine and would cost too much for the average person to buy. Of course, it was always Chrysler’s intention to build a street-going version of the Hemi. Why invest gazillions of dollars creating an engine if not to get twenty gazillion back? The plan was to build 426 Hemi race engines, race them, discover weaknesses, fix them, and then build a bulletproof street Hemi. So, beginning with the 1965 Daytona 500, Chrysler pulled its official factory support from all NASCAR efforts. They would concentrate on the USAC circuit instead. Testing would continue, and the 1966 target launch date for the street Hemi would be met. Chrysler just had to find a car to wrap around it”. For 2015, Chrysler introduced an all-new high performance supercharged variant of the Hemi engine, called the Hellcat. Mopar tested the Dodge Charger Hellcat, and said it was absolutely fantastic no matter how hard they drove it or how many sets of tires they burned through. The newer Challenger SRT Demon version of the Hemi V8 features a number of improvements www.hotrod.com over the Hellcat variant. Richard Petty 1964 Daytona 500 Winner In 2005, DaimlerChrysler hosted a "What Can You HEMI?” The finalists included a Snowblower, a Go-Round carousel, an on Ice re-surfacer, a Shredder, and the winner was the HEMI Big Wheel-talk about power!

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WHY? Q: What’s the best part 1. Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while about Valentines Day? women's clothes have buttons on the left? A: The day after Because , when buttons were invented, they were very expen- when all the sive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are chocolate goes on sale. right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. Because wealthy women were dressed by Q: What’s the difference between maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right! a $20 steak and a $55 steak? 2. Why do ships and aircraft use 'mayday' as their call for h elp? A: February Because , this comes from the French word m'aidez - meaning 14th. 'help me' - and is pronounced, approximately, 'mayday.' 3. Why are zero scores in tennis called 'love'? Q: What did the boy Because , in France , where tennis became popular, the round zero on the octopus say to the girl scoreboard looked like an egg and was called 'l'oeuf,' which is French for octopus? 'the egg.' When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans (naturally), mispronounced it 'love.' A: Can I hold your hand, hand, 4. Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses? hand, hand, hand, Because , in the Middle Ages, when many people were unable hand, hand, hand, to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the Q: What did the light document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous. bulb say to the other 5. Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast? light bulb? Because , in earlier times it used to be common for someone to try to kill an A: I love you a watt enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host's glass with his own. 6. Why are people in the public eye said to be 'in the '? Because , invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and theatres by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. The performer 'in the limelight' was the Centre of attention. 7. Why is someone who is feeling great 'on cloud nine'? Because , types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud. If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares. 8. Why are many coin collection jar banks shaped like pigs? Because , Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of dense orange clay called 'pygg'. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig. And it caught on. Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village 6155 Arner Townline Kingsville, ON, N9Y 2E5 “Through the Windshield” is published in Essex County by and for Phone: 519-776-6909 the members of the Historic Vehicle Society of Ontario and the Canadian Transportation Museum and Heritage Village. Its YOUR CTMHV CONTACTS: For general information: purposes are to present business topics and varied items of [email protected] interest, and to promote a spirit of cooperation amongst our For donations and artifacts: members and families, as we strive to preserve our past in the [email protected] present for the future. Any mistakes or errors in this newsletter For rentals and events and group tours: are not necessarily the fault of the editor. [email protected] For advertising and sponsorship: [email protected] For education programs: [email protected]

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