MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

Sort of. But what?

[David Whipp]

For equalising pressures in different vessels?

[Pluggy]

I reckon the knob is for drawing a vacuum (or at least reducing the pressure) at the flange at the bottom, to what ends I don't know

[Gloria]

For pressure testing a boiler on a steam engine??

[Stanley]

You're all hovering round it and Gloria is closest. It's a Vulcan Duaflex portable pressure gauge tester. (Vulcan Insurance Company) You attached the gauge to be tested to the opposite side thread and pumped up the pressure with the built in pump comparing the readings. The test gauge is very high standard and was checked frequently against a large standard test gauge.
Next for shaving?

[David Whipp]

The grey thingies.

[Stanley]

These are obviously the secure transport boxes supplied to all MEPs for bringing their wage and expenses home each month. (Have you seen Paul Nuttall's letter in the BET this morning? A bit rich when you consider the screw and expenses he is on!)

[PanBiker]

Boxes for beach toys that then double up as tables?

[Gloria]

A guess-----boxes which open out flat to provide a floor surface on sand or grass?

[Tizer]

Giant jack-in-the-box for entertaining children (or enlivening council meetings).

[Cathy]

Storage boxes to hold all the decorations from year to year.

[chinatyke]

Got to be something to do with Barlick Beach hasn't it?

[Stanley]

I like the 'open flat' option.....

[David Whipp]

Thank you for the inventive answers...

The objects can, of course, be used for an infinite number of uses, so you are all correct!

The use for which they were 'designed' (me, Ken Hartley and a fag packet) is to cover the ballast on each leg of the marquee. The ballast blocks themselves are scruffy looking blue half barrels. The covers supplied by the marquee company depend on stuck on velcro, which melts in the sun, leaving stickyness to get on people's legs and clothes.

We came up with these fold flat boxes which have the added advantage of covering the square (ankle catching) bracket beneath the ballast. The boxes fold flat for storage, taking up little space. They can also be used for sitting on (I've done quite of bit of that this week), or as a plinth (as in Trafalgar Square), or..., or..., or...

[Stanley]

Try this one.

[Gloria]

The inside if a kettle?? or other liquid container.

[Wendyf]

A part of a coffee maker?

[chinatyke]

A part of a gas cooker. The part that the burner is screwed into?

[Pluggy]

A hyrdraulic cylinder of some decription. looks like oil and the remains of seals/o rings around the periphery.

[plaques]

looks like a light fitting from an oven with the multi start thread glass removed. In need of a bloody good clean!

[Stanley]

Sorry, nobody is anywhere near.....

[Gloria]

Not sure, but it appears to have a four start thread for symmetrical and rapid engagement.....now all we have to think about is "what for"??

[Stanley]

That's pertinent Gloria, well spotted!

[Wendyf]

It looks like kitchen equipment of some sort....used regularly by the looks of it.

[Cathy]

Is it part of a bunsen burner