MYSTERY OBJECTS

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You've see it before.... Think steam engine governors!
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Is it a cast iron pattern for making the ratchet wheel used in the Wilby regulator on a Lumb steam engine governor?
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Breathtakingly accurate Kev! Exactly right.
Now we need a new object!
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Stanley wrote: 11 Dec 2025, 13:21 Breathtakingly accurate Kev! Exactly right.
Now we need a new object!
Apart from 'Is it' and the question mark the words are yours :biggrin2:
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Who was the VIP tenant of this pile at one point in WW2?
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Winston Churchill?
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No Gloria but that level of importance. Have you worked out where the building is?
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Culzean Castle, Eisenhower's SHAEF Headquarters during WWII.

Lost a tent on the Camping Club site there a long time ago.
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Exactly right Ian! Well done. Now we need another object.....
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