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Government issue field operation instrument set

Surgery

1940

Magnifying stereoscope, 1940

Surveying

1940

Radio with Bakelite case

Plastics and Modern Materials

1940

Saucer, ceramic, by Alfred Meakin, London & North Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1940

BSA folding bicycle, c. 1940

Road Transport

c.1940

The Speedway Derby Trophy

Road Transport

1940

Station pointer, 60cm legs, by Ed. Sprenger, Berli

Surveying

1940
Railway wagon, No 161042, 50-ton bogie flat wagon, Warflat WC, used by the War Department and British Railways built by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company Limited, 1940. Built to diagram number BR Wagon 73, number built 60. Length over buffers: 43' 10 1/2"; width 7' 10"; height 5'.

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1940
'Bel' cream maker, Empire Jubilee Model. Patent No. 448775. Made in England, c. 1940.

'Bel' cream maker, Empire Jubilee Model. Patent No

Domestic Appliances

c. 1940

Imperial Typewriter Model 50, 1940

Printing & Writing

1940
Length of piping from Merlin Spitfire aircraft engine (see Pt10)

Vickers-Supermarine Mk I Spitfire, c 1940, with separate Merlin engine.

Aeronautics

1940

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Moving-coil voltmeter

Electricity and Magnetism

1940

"Morgan Lee" Paper Trimmer

Papermaking

1940

'Selfac' Automatic Fire Extinguisher by F.E. Proprietary Co. Ltd., England, 1940

Firefighting

1940

RAF Officers' great coat, with

Aeronautics

c.1940

Children on bicycles, wearing gas masks.

Photographs

c. 1940

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

"Morgan Lee" Paper Trimmer

Papermaking

1940

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Compensated aneroid barometer Mark I, by T. Wheele

Meteorology

1940

Ballistic galvanometer by the Cambridge Instrument

Electricity and Magnetism

1940

World War Two Gas Mask

Public Health & Hygiene

1940

Model of the Kodak factory

Photographs

c. 1940

Mill worker

Photographs

1940-01-21

Collecting aluminium pots and pans to make aeroplanes

Photographs

1940

Left above knee peg leg made from leather and wood in Stalag VIIIB/344

Orthopaedics

1940

Tinplate worker

Photographs

1940-01-28

Tinplate worker

Photographs

1940-01-28

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Baker at work

Photographs

1940-01-15

Evacuees in a shelter

Photographs

1940-12-30

Sylvester, coal mining jacking

Coal Mining

c.1940

Collimator for measuring flatness of surfaces

Industrial Metrology

1940

2x bars from model of German pit prop

Coal Mining

C.1940

World War Two Gas Mask

Public Health & Hygiene

1940

cine projector

Cinematography

c.1940

Electric cooker, model E37G

Domestic Appliances

c.1940

Shipyard workers

Photographs

1940-01-08

Women on stage

Photographs

1940-01-05

Train driver

Photographs

1940-01-30

Train driver

Photographs

1940-01-30

Welsh miner

Photographs

1940-01-28

London taxi driver

Photographs

1940-01-08

7x50 binocular with internal filters model CF41 se

Optics

1940
Egg cup, ceramic, Great Western Railway - Hotels, made by John Maddock and Sons Limited, Burslem, 1940; cream withred and black bands and "GWR" in red diamond, marked underneath "GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY HOTELS 3/40".

Ceramic egg cup, Great Western Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1940

Welsh miner

Photographs

1940-01-28

Steel worker

Photographs

1940

Firefighters

Photographs

1940-07-16

Fire crew

Photographs

1940-07-16