MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Wendyf]

No change. I'll get my coat.....

[Big Kev]

I am using Chrome on my phone, I'll check Chrome on Windows and Firefox on Linux a bit later.

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Gloria]

That’s a lovely box.

[PanBiker]

AVO multimeter box?

[Stanley]

You're right Gloria, it's beautiful as is what is inside it.
Sorry Ian but no.

[Stanley]

No takers? You've seen it before!

[Gloria]

I really don’t know. Don’t think it can be a measuring device as it can be carried, and could lose its accuracy.

[Big Kev]

Mill related measuring device?

[Stanley]

It is for carrying a measuring device but not necessarily mill-related although it could be in a mill......

[Gloria]

It must be an expensive piece of kit to be in a box like that.

[Stanley]

I think you're right Gloria, it would cost an enormous amount if it and its contents were made today!
One last clue, you've seen me using it on a steam engine!

[Gloria]

Is it for checking flow rates of any kind? Grasping at straws here

[Wendyf]

Is it for testing pressure?

[Stanley]

You're both on the right track. The instrument combines measurement of both flow and pressure combined into a specialised reading. You are so close!

[Stanley]

It looks as though it has defeated you. I shall come clean around midday.

[Tizer]

Is it a vortex flow meter?

[Stanley]

I don't know what one of those is Peter! Last big clue. this was made by Dobbie and McInnes at Glasgow....

[Gloria]

Pressure indicator gauge?

[Stanley]

Well done Gloria, you got there. It's an indicator for drawing a time/pressure graph of what was happening in a steam engine cylinder.
Now we need another object.

[Gloria]

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What is this?

[Big Kev]

Is it the code breaking machine at Bletchley Park?

[PanBiker]

I have been to Bletchley Park and it doesn't look like the rebuilt Bombe machine to original plans as below:





All the original machines were broken up at the end of the war on Churchill's orders, subject to their ULTRA designation. The operators were given a set of sidecutters and other hand tools and told to disassemble so that no parts could be identified as belonging to the original equipment.

[PanBiker]

I know what it is but I have cheated with Google so I wont spill the beans.

[Stanley]

Nearest thing I have seen to those objects in the case are inclinometers but why so many? I have no idea.....