MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Gloria]

Is it a penknife for cutting up tobacco and the end is for compressing it down in the pipe bowl??

[PanBiker]

I reckon that's hit the nail on the head.

[Stanley]

Sorry about that, it leaked in from the shed!

[Gloria]

Eh ????

[Stanley]

Gloria for some reason my reply about the wrong pic got moved in the sequence. I'll leave it to Maz to comment on the answers, it's her object.

[Marilyn]

Gloria was correct.
Next!

[Stanley]

Let's try an oldie and see how good your memories are....

[Gloria]

Depth gauge ??

[Pluggy]

Internal Micrometer.

[Stanley]

Pluggy has it, a full set of internal micrometers.
Next for shaving?

[Stanley]

All right, try this one? Looks impossible but I think someone might recognise it....

[Gloria]

Some sort of ledger for keeping the accounts of something to do with Bancroft Mill?

[Tizer]

From the number of tabs it looks like it has 12 sections so could be divided into months and represent one year.

[David Whipp]

Calf Hall Shed Company records?

[Stanley]

Sorry no. Do you know, I was convinced one of the engineers would leap straight in with the answer, it is so distinctive.

[Gloria]

The Mechanical Engineer's Handbook.

[Tizer]

It's Stanley's page-to-an-hour diary!

[plaques]

I suspect its a 'Machinery's Handbook'. the bible for engineers. Far too expensive for mere mortals like me who made do with a 'Fowlers' Machinists' at 6/- in 1960.

[Gloria]

I agree with plaques, I couldn't remember the exact name......age!!!

[Stanley]

That's right, the 1956 edition so it has all the old standards in it. They are quite cheap second hand and as they are American are all Imperial Units and Whitworth! (LINK) Here's a 1976 edition for £11.35, well worth it....
In a similar vein but much older, can anyone remember us discussing this on the old site?

[Stanley]

No takers?

[LizG]

I've got one that looks similar but is about half that size, and its a prayer book. It belonged to someone born in 1922.

[Stanley]

Sorry Liz, no. If I gave a big clue and mentioned Molesworth would that trigger any memories?

[Stanley]

Well! I am surprised that nobody has remembered the long discussions we had about Molesworth. The vest pocket sized book is one of a series that were written by Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth. See this LINKfor a Wiki article about him. They were intended to be carried in the vest pocket of colonial engineers and gave information about everything from erecting telegraph lines to the evaporation rates of bodies of water in summer in different parts of India. Very rare these days, if you see one grab it!
Next for shaving?

[Tizer]

The Molesworth discussions were probably on the old site and have therefore been deleted from our memories!