MYSTERY OBJECTS
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Looks military and Great War..... Was it for collecting bodies from the field?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Getting close Stanley, certainly military. Here's another photo to help.
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That sounds feasible and the slots are for rifle to be used in defence.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Troops, supplies and artillery but which war and what pulled it?
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That's the one Kev. The 'Seige Train' built by Fowler & Co. of Hunslet, Leeds in 1900 for the Boer War.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
That was a good one Wendy. I've only just seen it but wouldn't have known what it was from the original image. I think the `siege train' in your photo might have prompted the author E.V. Thompson to write his `Brother in War' novel in the Retallick Saga. Retallick It was based on WW1 rather than the Boer War but had Cornish steam engines crossing South Africa to deliver gunboats to fight the Germans.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What is it and where would you find one?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
There were also cafes looking a bit like that for bargemen and canal workers.
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You got it straight away, a London Cab driver's refuge. I did that pic in the 1970s .
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
I believe they was 1st introduced back when horses pulled taxis.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What's going on here?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Please let them be "sagger makers' bottom knockers" 

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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Looks like a foundry, no idea what they're casting though.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Kev is right, green sand moulding in a 19th century foundry.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
What are you looking at?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry Tom, no.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Are they anything to do with a casting process?
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Sorry no, you are both wrong. Clue, this one is aimed particularly at Tripps!
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Old age isn't for cissies!