MYSTERY OBJECTS

[David Whipp]

China is on the right lines...

[Gloria]

A wheel off a child's toy???? or maybe a wheel off a vacuum cleaner.
if not, how big is it????

[David Whipp]

Sorry Gloria, no.

It's just less that 1" diameter, 23mm or thereabouts.

[David Whipp]

Oh, and nowt to do with the sign of four!

[Big Kev]

A spool from a cassette tape.

[Tizer]

Following on from Chinatyke's suggestion of a roller, I'd guess it was a roller off an inkjet or laser printer, the ones that pass the paper through.

[Whyperion]

Correction tape & spool for a lift - off daisy wheel typewriter using correctable ribbon /cassettes ?

[Wendyf]

I shouldn't really put this in before the last one is solved, but our internet connection is really poor at the moment and I may be off line tomorrow.
This is a Mystery Person...


In my Mum & Dad's back garden in Bradford, late 1940's. A football player, later to become a famous football manager.

[David Whipp]

Won't ask what that lady is doing with a partly dressed player in the back garden...

Between China and Tizer, I think you're near enough; the object is for feeding sheets of paper through a folding machine.

[Wendyf]

The lady is the wife of the football player. They lived next door to Mum & Dad when he was playing for Bradford...before my time.

[Wendyf]

Ah well, I'm not interested in football either, but I did watch the world cup match in 1966 when 3 players from the team he managed helped England to win. Manager of the England team in the 70's too?

[Gloria]

Don Revie??

[Wendyf]

No Gloria, the right generation but much more southerly....

[plaques]

Walter Winterbottom. http://www.englandfootballonline.com/te ... ottom.html
His assistant later on was Jimmy Adamson (manager of Burnley) who I used to play bowls with in Scott Park Burnley.

[Stanley]

[David Whipp]

Punch for cutting slots in leather?

[Wendyf]

Not Walter Winterbottom Plaques, it's Ron Greenwood.

[Stanley]

David has got it.



This is a bit different. I found two very small photos in a book and scanned them at high res. It must have been a good camera because I got this image. Now then, the question is, where is it?

[LizG]

No idea but it's a great photo.

[Wendyf]

I think it might be Inveraray.

[PanBiker]

Interesting placement of telegraph poles!

[Stanley]

Wendy got it in one. The Argyll Arms Hotel was originally built as accommodation for visitors to the castle.

[David Whipp]

Draw off valve for sampling?

[Cathy]

I imagine it is something from Bancroft but why am I thinking flowing chocolate?

[plaques]

Its an oil feed reservoir to lubricate the flywheel crank end of a steam engine.