Trademark printing block

Textile Industry

Trademark printing block, used to stamp cotton cloth, around 1900.

Intermediate frame

Textile Industry

1907

Intermediate frame, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1907, and used at Roy Mill, Royton.

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Cop-reel hank-winding machine, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1897.

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Architecht's model of S & J Watts' warehouse, made around 1850.

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

c.1900

Braiding machine made around 1900, used at Croft Mill, Manchester.

Bell from Liverpool Road Station, Manchester

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831

Bell from Liverpool Road Station, Manchester, c. 1831.

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Columbian hand printing press; cast iron with eagles and serpents moulded into casting. Lever operated, and painted black.

Jacquard hand loom

Textile Industry

c. 1910

Jacquard hand loom, made by W. Archer, Bolton, around 1910.

Textile mill safety notice

Archive

1900-1940

Textile mill safety notice forbidding workers to climb over the mule headstock, around 1900-1940.

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

George III penny coin, 1806, from New Mill at Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, East Manchester, found during the archaeological survey of the site.

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Metal notice made by Platt Brothers and Co. Ltd, Oldham, c.1899 regarding working hours.

Ford Model T car

Road Transport

1912

Ford Model T motor car, assembled at the Ford Trafford Park production line, Manchester, 1912.

Hopper Feeder

Textile Industry

1949

Hopper feeder, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1949, and used at Bank Top Mill, Oldham.

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Lancashire loom, made by J. & R. Shorrock, Darwen, c.1880, and used at Pennington Mill, Leigh.

Belsize two-seater motor car

Road Transport

c. 1912

Two-seater motor car with folding hood and dickey seat, made by Belsize Motors Ltd, Clayton, Manchester, c.1912, with an accompanying illustrated catalogue of cars manufactured by Belsize Motors Limited, Manchester printed in 1914.

Brush for cleaning textile mill machinery

Textile Industry

1880-1940

Hand held wooden brush, used for sweeping cotton dust from machines and floors in a textile mill.

'Kissing' shuttle

Textile Industry

1937

Loom shuttle, made in around 1930 by Pikington Ltd in Preston, has hand written label 'James Dewhurst June 1937', likely used in the mill of James Dewhurst in Clitheroe.

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Millwright's measuring tool, made by W. Wright, Manchester, around 1790.

Wax printed cloth sample

Textile Industry

around 1990

Wax printed fabric sample, made by ABC Wax in Hyde, around 1990.

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Ribbon loom, made by T. F. Wilkinson & Co. Ltd, Coventry, c.1900. Fitted on the top with Jacquard head made by J. McMurdo Ltd, Manchester. Used at Cash's ribbon manufacturers in Coventry.

Carding engine

Textile Industry

1896

Carding engine, made by Asa Lees & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1896 and used at Moorfield Mill in Shaw.

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

George III half-penny coin, 1799, from the fourth floor of Decker Mill at Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, East Manchester, found during the archaeological survey of the site.

Woollen shawl

Textile Industry

1880-1920

Woollen shawl, made around 1880-1920, typical of the type worn by women and girls working in Lancashire's textile mills.

Roving frame

Textile Industry

1927

Roving frame, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1927, and used at Elk Mill, Royton.

Drawing frame

Textile Industry

1901

Drawing frame, made by Howard Bullough Ltd, Accrington, 1901.

Water frame spindle

Textile Industry

1800-1830

Wooden spindle, resembles the type used on a water frame, or could also have been used on a yarn winding machine, found at Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, during the archaeological survey of the site.

Lu-Min-Um Safety Bicycle

Road Transport

1896

Safety bicycle made in France and retailed by the Lu-Min-Um Manufacturing Company, St Mary's Gate, Manchester, 1896

Dextralog selector box

Textile Industry

1975

Selector box made by Dextralog, around 1975, attached to textile looms by sensor leads.

Slotting machine, made by Sharp Roberts and Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

Slotting machine, made by Sharp Roberts and Co., Manchester, 1835. Constructed from cast iron on sort of arched frame design. Table with cross and front to back movements placed in middle with slotting arm above it. Three stepped pulley and hand wheel on drive cross shaft to gears on left with a secondary shaft working the slotting arm. Operating arms are missing from the cam to the rachet levers.

Berry & Bentley Track Bicycle

Road Transport

1934

Track bicycle, made by Berry & Bentley, Manchester, 1934.

Regis 6 Motor Car by Crossley Motors

Road Transport

1935

Regis 6 motor car, made by Crossley Motors Ltd, Manchester, with collection of related articles and other information, c.1935.

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Road Transport

1880-1890

High Ordinary (Penny Farthing) bicycle made by William Harrison, Manchester, c.1885.

Imperial motor car

Road Transport

1904

Motor car, made by the Imperial Autocar Manufacturing Co. Ltd, Manchester, 1904.

Sibbit Tandem Bicycle

Road Transport

1928

Tandem bicycle made by Jack E Sibbit, c.1928.

paper tensile tester

Papermaking

c.1900

Paper tensile tester made in Austria and supplied by J. J. Marshall and Co. Wooden body with dial in middle of one long side, reading 0-50 pounds. Patent Paper Testing Machine, J.J. Marshall & Co, London and Dartford, Made in Austria. Paper clamped with steel plates and thumb scres on top, one side adjustable in half inch lengths, handle at right endtensions right clamp. Brass end plates at both ends

Drawing frame

Textile Industry

1901

Drawing frame, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1901, and used at Brooklands Mill, Leigh.

Trademark printint block

Textile Industry

1880-1910

Trademark printing block, used to stamp cotton cloth, around 1900.

Carding engine

Textile Industry

Carding engine, designed by Richard Arkwright and used at Cromford Mill, Derbyshire, around 1800.

Trademark printing block

Textile Industry

1880-1910

Trademark printing block, used to stamp cotton cloth, around 1900.

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Model, scale 1:3, of a power loom for simple plain weaving made by Messrs. Sevill and Woolstenhulme, Oldham, Manchester, England, 1857. This loom gives the most elementary kind of weaving in which weft crosses over and under the warps alternately and was the type used extensively for calico weaving. There is an arrangement for stopping the loom automatically if the shuttle does not reach its box after each pick, and if the weft should break then a weft fork device which is normally balanced to rest on the unbroken thread falls and operates cut off machinery to stop the loom.

Spinning mule

Textile Industry

1927

Self acting spinning mule, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd, Oldham, 1927 and used at Elk Mill in Oldham until September 1974 when mule spinning operations there ceased.

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1898

Metal notice, Platt Brothers and Co. Ltd, Oldham, around 1889.

Part of voltaic cell

Scientific Instruments & Research

Part of voltaic cell used by James Joule, c.1840.

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

10 hp two-cylinder Rolls-Royce motor car, Reg. No. AX148; Chassis No. 20162; produced by Royce Ltd., Cooke Street, Hulme, Manchester, 1905.

Avro Shackleton A.E.W. 2

Aeronautics

1954

Avro Shackleton A.E.W.2 reconnaissance aircraft, Military Service No. WR 960, made by A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd, Woodford, 1954.

Avro 707A Aeroplane

Aeronautics

1952; 1952

Avro 707A aeroplane, manufactured by A. V. Roe & Co. Ltd at Chadderton and assembled at Bracebridge Heath in 1952. Registration number WZ736.

Oil can for oiling textile machinery

Textile Industry

1880-1940

Oil can, used to oil the moving parts of textile machinery.

immersion suit blouse

Textile Industry

c.1945

Blouse from an immersion suit, made by P. Frankenstein and Sons Ltd, around 1945.

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Electric motor used by James Joule, c.1860. Armature original but the rest may be replica. This simple electric motor was used by the scientist James Joule for experiments about energy. Joule was a Salford resident and the son of a brewer. He was taught by the famous scientist John Dalton. Joule's experiments in 1845 led him to an new understanding of energy conversion. Research by Joule showed that electricity, mechanical work and heat are all the same thing - forms of energy. He used equipment like this to learn that formd of energy are interchangeable and that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Joule is remembered as one of the founders of modern physics. From 1948 the Joule became a standard international unit of energy measurement.

AI-24 Foxhunter Radar

Radar & Radio Location

1970-1990

Ferranti/Marconi AI-24 Foxhunter air interception radar, as fitted to BAe Tornado F3 interceptors, on serving trolley.