Treadle-operated trip hammer
- Made:
- circa 1800-circa 1900 in Hyde and Manchester
Trip hammer, treadle-operated, used by William Brooke and Sons Ltd, wholesale ironmongers, iron merchants, nut and bolt manufacturers, Hyde. Used in a forge, for making nails and other small ironworking. Approximately 1800-1900.
This treadle-operated hammer was used in an ironmonger's forge. Treadle-operated power hammers like this reduced the need for human strikers to hammer the workpiece by hand.
Details
- Category:
- Hand and Machine Tools
- Object Number:
- 2024-302
- Materials:
- metal (unknown) and wood (unidentified)
- Measurements:
-
overall (without plinth): 1030 mm x 850 mm x 1000 mm,
overall (including plinth): 1470 mm x 930 mm x 1050 mm,
- type:
- hammer
