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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 03:13
by Stanley
Looks military and Great War..... Was it for collecting bodies from the field?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 07:31
by Wendyf
Getting close Stanley, certainly military. Here's another photo to help.
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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 08:02
by Big Kev
Armoured troop transport?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 08:09
by Stanley
That sounds feasible and the slots are for rifle to be used in defence.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 08:13
by Wendyf
Troops, supplies and artillery but which war and what pulled it?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 09:05
by Big Kev
Boer war? Steam engine?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 09:31
by Wendyf
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

Posted: 09 Jan 2024, 10:00
by Tizer
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.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 04:21
by Stanley
Image

What is it and where would you find one?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 08:12
by Big Kev
Looks like a London taxi driver's cafe.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 09:56
by Tizer
There were also cafes looking a bit like that for bargemen and canal workers.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 10:01
by Stanley
You got it straight away, a London Cab driver's refuge. I did that pic in the 1970s .
Next one?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 11:57
by Steeplejerk
I believe they was 1st introduced back when horses pulled taxis.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 14:32
by Stanley
Image

What's going on here?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 15:27
by Tripps
Please let them be "sagger makers' bottom knockers" :laugh5:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 15:44
by Big Kev
Tripps wrote: 10 Jan 2024, 15:27 Please let them be "sagger makers' bottom knockers" :laugh5:
:biggrin2:

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 10 Jan 2024, 15:45
by Big Kev
Looks like a foundry, no idea what they're casting though.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 03:08
by Stanley
Kev is right, green sand moulding in a 19th century foundry.
Next one?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 04:57
by Stanley
Image

What are you looking at?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 07:56
by Steeplejerk
Is it cheese

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 07:58
by Stanley
Sorry Tom, no.

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 08:11
by Wendyf
Clay flue tiles?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 08:23
by Gloria
Are they anything to do with a casting process?

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 10:04
by Stanley
Sorry no, you are both wrong. Clue, this one is aimed particularly at Tripps!

Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS

Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 11:32
by PanBiker
Sample plugs from borehole drilling?