OneGuyFromBarlick

Here's an oldie for you......

Very interesting.

Fascinating.

Now I have to work out what it is / does, as it certainly wasn't an ornament originally !

Something in a mill, I suspect ...

Stanley's hanging basket prototype.

Not there yet........

Looks like it is upside down.
Could be a push along cart, similar to a golf buggy. Could it have been for delivering papers?

Is it part of an old farm implement (though why you'd want to keep it, I can't imagine)

Is it a bracket you use in pairs and they hang from a horizontal scaffold bar and then you put a plank across it to support your tools and buckets? Maybe when you are working at heights.

For wheeling out the front of a shop with a sign on it.
(Oh...and it is still upside down)

China is close but not quite there yet. And it's almost the right way up......

They hung from 2 horizontal scaffold bars to stop them swinging inwards and were boarded to be used as a working platform?

You're almost there China. Think sideways, you've got the right idea. Look carefully at the design and think what it would fit.

China has done all the spade work I think you should give it to him. Using these things is illegal now.

You're probably right P but the educative value is lost if we don't get it right. China, here's a clue for you!

To fit on ladders to hold cross boards? I'm not familiar with scaffolding but I've probably walked past many of them and never given them a second thought.

The ladder hangers as they are in the picture were outlawed years ago but ladder hangers are not illegal ,if they can be modified to fit a handrail and use a youngerman board for the span they are ok,you can hire ladder hangers from most national hire shops such as Smiths and HSS..

Didn't know that. Thanks.

You got it in the end China. Sorry I was so hard on you and thanks to Tom for keeping stum and giving us the latest official position on them.
Next one?

No takers? Try this one then......

Rain dance equipment?

Some sort of car door inside handle?

I'm with Plaques on this one. Is it the handle of an elderly pair of hair clippers?

Part of the handle of a pair of nail clippers?

P and W have it...... Next one?

Try this one.....