The Simplex was a very basic lightweight motorcycle with many features dating back to the early machines of the teens and 1920s, such as the belt drive. This bike would be a logical upgrade from a Whizzer powered bicycle, economical, easy to operate and relatively inexpensive. The Salisbury type clutch gave infinitely variable automatic gear ratios that greatly improved the performance. ••~~Talk-through by JT Nesbitt, Lead Designer Bienville Studios, best known for the G2 Hellcat, Wraith, and Ma

What's in our vault? 👀 This is an electric Simplex 35mm projector, made by the International Projector Corporation in New York, NY, circa 1928. The International Projector Corporation was founded in November of 1925 with the merging of three companies by 1930: the Precision Machine Company, the Nicholas Powers Company (whose Power's 6B had the first three-blade shutter to eliminate flicker), and the Acme Motion Picture Company. After a couple of moves and mergers between the end of WWII through