I remember talking to some old guy’s driving classical Fords to car shows, one of them owned a model t, his comment at operate a model t around all nice, classical, super expensive cars, tightly parked.
You know, it only have two speeds: “Too fast” and “scary fast” 
Back in time here in Sweden it was called: driving with “slack moustasches” when driving full speed with a model t, because the throttle and ignition levers hanging down resembled.
Goran, I can picture you driving that plow in a suit, tie and top hat. (not!)
I love this, could spend all day on this post and I am not much of poster and reader Thanks Giorgio and all that posted
Some nice historic photos in this article:
Giorgio,
I found an interesting video of a 1935 silent film buried in that forum you just posted. Once you get past the stupid questions / gatekeeper at the “ina” website, the film is good and worth watching. here is the link:
Giorgio,
Bellissimo film!
Bellissimo film anche quello che segue, raccolto da Max Castell-De Fougeres!
Beautiful movie!
The following film, collected by Max Castell-De Fougeres, is also a beautiful film!
Goran,
That’s a neat photo–and I believe I see chains on the rear tires, too. I never saw a pedal car with chains before.
Hi Steve, you’re right, he got snow chains on the little pedal-car 
My first thoughts was, he was a spoiled kid, but more i think about it, he probably had a real handy father, the pedal car looks very much home built.
As for snow chains, i don’t know about other countries, but here in Sweden there has been snow chains for bicycles available from time to time, even the military used them (!) , i’ve tried some old bicycle snow chains that i found on a swap-meet, -totally horrible to use… shakes and throws from side to side… 
There are quite a few winter bike races around northern Michigan. I think they just use the fat tires on mountain bikes. I’ve seen some video clips on local news channels. It doesn’t look like that much fun to me.
This does look like fun.
Here’s an interesting auto-mixer, made by engineer Tore Reidler, which worked with natural gas mixers in America in the 1920s.
In Sweden it was sold as the IDO-mixer, (if a Swede reads this: yes, it’s the same company, IDO 59, maker of thinking chairs out of porcelain )
Numbers: 1-sliding throat.
2-air intake. 3-lever. 4-adjusting nut.
5-adjusting nut. 6- lever for choke/enrichment
7-choke push-pull cable fixing point.
8-vacuum channel. 9-diaphragm.
10-accelerator lever. 11-to inlet manifold.
12-throttle. 13-idle adjustment screw.
14-woodgas valve. 15-woodgas in.
16-air valve.
It worked by inlet manifold vacuum controlled the diaphragm, which gave the sliding throat a fast response, almost vibrating, like a load sensing valve, which reacts on bad mix=engine runs bad.
Yes, it reminded me about Tones mixers too.
