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Is it a dead man’s switch in a train?
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Curses, dead right Maz. I shall have to try again.

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( my son is a train driver...and things he has spoken about must have sunk in :extrawink: )
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Logan Rock on the Cornish coast south of Penzance? (A `rocking stone' that was pushed over by some British sailors in the early 1800s but the locals made them replace it.) Or something similar elsewhere!
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Sorry Peter, not a rocking stone.
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Giving up?
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Somewhere in the Peak District?
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Not quite Cathy but quite near to it.
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If you need a clue, the location has been mentioned on OG before in mystery objects. I'll give it one more day and then come clean.
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It's the Old Man of Mow, near Alderly Edge. There's a National Trust trail to it
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/alderl ... -cop-trail
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Exactly Kev. Well done.
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Vorsprung durch Technik"......
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The language of the country of origin :biggrin2:
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When they ran out of rubber, WW1.
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It's definitely a substitute for a rubber tyre on a cycle.
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plaques wrote: ↑10 Jan 2021, 22:26 When they ran out of rubber, WW1.
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As used by James Bond before they could afford to make him a special car. :extrawink:
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Brilliant! Never seen an example of that before.
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Hello? Anyone out there?
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Some sort of furnace.
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The spikes make it look like its designed to tear things apart or mix them up. Something to do with felt or wadding, Just a guess.
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Sorry no Cathy.
Ken, spot on! Well observed. Now what is it going to tear up?
It's one of the machines that I refurbished at Higher Mill at Helmshore but wasn't essential for the processes there.
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I was thinking in terms of the old flock mattresses material using residue wool from other processes. Now a thing of the past Flatley dryer country.
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