MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Very close Gloria. It's a process associated with textiles....

[Gloria]

Is it used for someone who has to sit down continuously, like a checkers chair?

[Gloria]

Spinners?

[Cathy]

Is it an old fashioned Tailors Chair?

[Stanley]

You are both so close. Think of a process necessary to textile manufacture that is domestic as well.

[Gloria]

Sewing machine chair?

[Cathy]

To sit on while finishing items off with hand sewing?

[Stanley]

You've both got it. Part of a range of chairs and stools made by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Now selling for ridiculous prices, look them up!
Next one?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

It’s a man thing, the inside of a rotary shaver?

[Stanley]

Straight in there Gloria. Dead right. This job gets harder and harder!.



What can you tell me about this gearing?

[chinatyke]

Was it made like that so it would run quieter than two steel gears?

[Stanley]

Bugger. So you saw straight away that the teeth on one half of the bevel were wooden? Yes, dead right, it also made for smoother running as well.
I'll have to think of another one wont I.....

[Stanley]

What is this part of?

[Gloria]

Is it to do with rope making?

[Stanley]

On the right track Gloria but no.

[chinatyke]

Winding bobbins? Could it be a mule frame?

[Stanley]

Once again, on the right track but sorry no, it isn't a mule frame.

[chinatyke]

Doubling?

[Stanley]

Sorry China. Not doubling. You need to go back to the mule and then think even earlier.....

[PanBiker]

Spinning Jenny?

[chinatyke]

Condensor spinning?

[Stanley]

Sorry no. Think back to the first factories and wig making!

[Gloria]

Is it for making the skull cap which is the foundation for the wig?

[Stanley]

No Gloria, that was a bit misleading. The man who perfected the machine trained as a wig maker.