MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

What's the correct name for these spanners.... the job they were originally designed for?

[Big Kev]

I know them as obstruction spanners.

[Stanley]

Which is true Kev, they are, but the catalogue description was different. Can you have a stab at that one?

[Big Kev]

Half moon?

[Stanley]

Sorry no. Think of the nuts they were specifically made for......

[Stanley]

Think of what are the nuts on an engine most likely to give you trouble.....

[Big Kev]

Bell housing or starter motor?

[Stanley]

You're trying hard Kev and well done for doing so. Just think back to the problems you had getting to the nuts on the exhaust manifold and how they were rusted in. These spanners were always described in the catalogue as 'manifold spanners'.



Where is it and why was it built like that?

[Gloria]

Is it at Gisburn?

[Stanley]

Well done Gloria. Yes you are right. Any Idea why?

[Big Kev]

from Wikipedia

The extension of the East Lancashire Railway (by that time, the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) needed to go through Lord Ribblesdale's estate (Gisburn Park). Ribblesdale refused to allow the railway to cross his grounds in case it frightened his horses, so a cut-and-cover castellated tunnel was built instead, and the course of the railway was altered from the plans so that the trackbed could not be seen from Gisburne Hall. The castellated entrances to the tunnel were built when Ribblesdale refused the compensation money from the railway company, with Ribblesdale instead asking that the money be spent on the look of the tunnel portals over normal brick edifices.

[Stanley]

Exactly the right answer of course.....
I shall go off into the desert seeking another object.......

[Stanley]

What is this?

[Stanley]

On reflection I can't really expect you to know what this is so I shall knock it on the head. It's the Hopkinson feed and check valve on the last remaining boiler at Ellenroad.
I shall find another object!



This was made as a joke. Can you tell me what it is?

[Stanley]

Again, no takers. It's a miniature animal trap, said to be for catching mice......

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

A shuttle.

[Stanley]

Yes Gloria but there's something special about this one.... It's only six inches long......

[Stanley]

Look at the centre of the shuttle and the hole where the weft comes out. Now think about what the weaver was doing.....

[Steeplejerk]

Silk

[Stanley]

Nearly Tom. Think of weft that cost more then silk.....

[Steeplejerk]

Must be Gold

[Stanley]

Yes Tom! It's a shuttle for putting the gold lines in that were part of some cloths exported to the sub continent.

[Stanley]

What are they?

[Cathy]

Spacers to separate something (s) ?