Linear dividing engine, built by Fairburn & Co. of Leeds in 1863 at a cost of £52 for the Vale of Neath Railway, obtained by the Great Western Railway in July 1866, installed in Swindon Works A Shop Tool Room in November 1906, recovered from British Rail Engineering Ltd., Swindon, with small steel rule produced on the machine as an example of work.
Details
- Object Number:
- 1988-877
- type:
- linear dividing engine
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- dividing engine
- credit:
- British Railways Board, Euston Square
