working model

Made:
Middlesex

working model, scale 1:8, of Farmer's patent stiff-plastic brick-making machine, 1885, belt-driven, on wooden base, with model bricks produced

Details

Category:
Building Construction
Object Number:
1902-6
type:
models
credit:
Sir James Farmer and Sons

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