MYSTERY OBJECTS
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Very close Gloria. It's a process associated with textiles....
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it used for someone who has to sit down continuously, like a checkers chair?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Spinners?
Gloria
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Now an Honorary Chief Engineer who'd be dangerous with a brain!!!
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it an old fashioned Tailors Chair?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
You are both so close. Think of a process necessary to textile manufacture that is domestic as well.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sewing machine chair?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
To sit on while finishing items off with hand sewing?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
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?
Next one?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is it?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
It’s a man thing, the inside of a rotary shaver?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Straight in there Gloria. Dead right. This job gets harder and harder!.
What can you tell me about this gearing?
What can you tell me about this gearing?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Was it made like that so it would run quieter than two steel gears?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
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.....
I'll have to think of another one wont I.....
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is this part of?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it to do with rope making?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
On the right track Gloria but no.
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Winding bobbins? Could it be a mule frame?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Once again, on the right track but sorry no, it isn't a mule frame.
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Doubling?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry China. Not doubling. You need to go back to the mule and then think even earlier.....
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Condensor spinning?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry no. Think back to the first factories and wig making!
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The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Is it for making the skull cap which is the foundation for the wig?
Gloria
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
No Gloria, that was a bit misleading. The man who perfected the machine trained as a wig maker.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!