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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 08:44
by Big Kev
Corps of Royal Engineers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 08:46
by Tizer
Stanley wrote: ā02 Oct 2020, 08:20
No Gloria. An even better clue for you, look at the last mystery object....
So were they army surveyors? Alternatively, if `piste' was a clue in your earlier posts, did they operate in the mountains and/or snow. Alpine surveyors?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 12:36
by Gloria
Iām with Tizer.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 12:58
by Stanley
You've got there. They are the wounded survivors of a group of men sent to the Western Front to do the equivalent of the Ordnance Survey here. (
LINK)
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Oct 2020, 13:19
by Gloria
Interesting one Stanley.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Oct 2020, 02:17
by Stanley
Thanks Gloria, I thought it was a bit better than the previous two!
A test of comprehension. What's this?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Oct 2020, 08:51
by PanBiker
13" of 5" diameter thick wall copper pipe.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Oct 2020, 09:02
by Stanley
Well done you have been following the story in shed matters! Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Oct 2020, 02:52
by Stanley
Can you tell me what this is?
![Image](https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/21179/medium)
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Oct 2020, 09:52
by Tizer
I don't want to hog the topic or boar you all but could it be a wild pig?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Oct 2020, 10:00
by PanBiker
Hampshire County Division formation patch.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 05 Oct 2020, 02:36
by Stanley
We always called them shoulder flashes but yes Ian, quite right.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 04:43
by Stanley
I suspect this is too easy..... What ship, where and for what purpose?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 07:24
by Gloria
Could it be for cable laying? The Agamemnon Or the Niagara?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 07:44
by Stanley
You're in the right area Gloria but not those ships and that was not why it is where it is.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 08:43
by Tizer
It's the SS Great Britain in the Falklands where it was scuttled in 1937 after being used as a storage hulk.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 09:06
by PanBiker
Stanley wrote: ā05 Oct 2020, 02:36
We always called them shoulder flashes but yes Ian, quite right.
The official title of formation patch is to make it easier to get all similarly adorned ducks in a row, or many rows, so to speak.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 12:05
by Stanley
Ian, we had no problem, we knew what they were and where they were worn.
Peter. Sorry, no, can't understand why nobody went straight to this!
Clue, the name is painted on the ship!
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 06 Oct 2020, 15:45
by Tizer
Well I'd been going to say it was the Great Eastern ready to be broken up but she had become a cable laying ship and you said Gloria's suggestion of cable laying was wrong.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Oct 2020, 02:51
by Stanley
Sorry if I misled you. I thought it was clear.
You're in the right area Gloria but not those ships and that was not why it is where it is. it wasn't why it was where it is. Your answer is the correct one. She was scrapped at New Ferry on the River Mersey by Henry Bath & Son Ltd in 1889ā1890 and that's where the pic was done.
A common tool. Exact name please.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Oct 2020, 12:27
by plaques
I've always called them 'Magneto Spanners' or at least that's what I call them after I've found them.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 07 Oct 2020, 12:47
by Stanley
Dead right Ken. They were especially produced for adjusting and maintaining magnetos which now are almost a forgotten technology.
Next one anyone?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Oct 2020, 02:45
by Stanley
Can anyone tell me what this is?
![Image](https://www.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/app.php/gallery/image/21205/medium)
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Oct 2020, 02:53
by Cathy
Is it Quartz Rock?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 08 Oct 2020, 03:57
by Stanley
Well done Cathy, you are so close! It's very special and distinctive, I want a name....