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McVitie Weston valve collection, Cossor valve, type WR2

Electronic Components

1924

McVitie Weston valve collection, BTH valve, type B

Electronic Components

-1925

Dissecting microscope by E. Leitz, Wetzlar, in woo

Microscopes

1925
Southern Railway paint pattern sample, First and second class, Double-sided on steel, Gold lettering on green, c.1923.

Paint pattern sample, Southern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

c. 1923
Made by Company craftsmen at Kilburn camera repair works. 1/8th scale model of Brownie camera made for presentation to the Queen Mary's Doll's House project. Fully working. With 2 negatives taken with camera - one of men who made it; 2 contact prints and two enlargements. Camera not presented as a second, folding model was thought more appropriate. Lens: 1/2" piano convex from microscope objective; finder lenses watch crown jewels. Cost approxiamtely £30; six weeks work.

Negative Taken With Queen Mary's Doll's House Camera

Photographic Technology

1924

Film positive (7 3/4" x 9 7/8") Nebula N.G.C. 4565

Astronomy

1923

Film positive (5" x 5 1/2") Nebula N.G.C. 3115 exp

Astronomy

1923

Film positive (9 7/8" x 7 3/4") nebula N.G.C. 5866

Astronomy

1923

25cc bottle of Terpineol

Scientific Instruments & Research

c1925

Heavy type ball thrust bearing by Hoffmann;1925.

Mechanical Power Transmission

1925
Locomotive Worksplate, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, "LB & SCR 70, rebuilt 1923, Brighton Works", cast brass, oval, built by Sharp Stewart 4777/1901, 4-4-0 Class B4 No. 70 "Holyrood", renamed "Devonshire" in March 1907, Southern Railway No. 2070, rebuilt to Class B4X in May 1923, withdrawn August 1951.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1923
Notice, enamel, Great Western Railway, Country Lorry Service, black letters on white, c1925.

Lorry sign, Great Western Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1925

2 long bolts with nuts and 2 metal plates from the English Reifler escapement astronomical clock

Time Measurement

1923-1925

McVitie Weston valve collection, Cleartron valve, type C.T.215 S.G.

Electronic Components

c. 1925
Ediswan valve, type AR.06, green line adjacent to anode pin, (RMW/C83 - McVitie Weston number), by Royal Ediswan, 1925.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Ediswan valve, type AR.06

Electronic Components

1925
Ship's bell, brass, Southern Railway, inscribed 'Isle of Thanet', clapper missing, from the Twin-Screw Steamship Isle of Thanet, allocated to Folkestone and Dover, built by Wm. Denny & Bros Ltd, Dumbarton, 1925, withdrawn 1963 and broken up 1964.

Brass ship's bell, Southern Railway - 'Isle of Thanet'

Railway Shipping

1925

McVitie Weston valve collection, Ramsay C.R.T. (Experimental) valve

Electronic Components

1923

Three litre touring car

Road Transport

1924

No.1 London Argand Burner, without chimney, in fit

Gas Industry

1925

Cone type loudspeaker made by S. G. Brown Ltd., c.

Radio Communication

c. 1925

GPO bib-and-brace trousers, 1925 pattern

Telecommunications

1925

Ford Model T Car Ignition Coil

Road Transport

1924
Cardboard wallet 'Illingworth's Slow Gas Print and Film Wallet'.

Illingworth's Slow Gas Print And Film Wallet

Photographic Technology

1924

Current transformer serial no.L76614, ranges 100/5

Electricity and Magnetism

1925
Box of Illingworth roll film 'Extra Rapid Auto Chromatic Non-Helation Arch-curling'. Open.

Illingworth Roll Film

Photographic Technology

1924

Automatic scale no.501

Weighing & Measuring

1924

Potentiometer, for electrometric titration apparat

Experimental Chemistry

1925
One packet of Illingworth's 'Slogas' gaslight paper. 'Special Exhibition Sample', 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch.

Packet of 'Slogas' Paper

Photographic Technology

1924

Roger's Vitalator

Domestic Appliances

1925

Steel poll axe, 3 lbs

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1925

Ferranti Ltd AF2 audio frequency transformer

Electricity Supply

1923

Mason's gavel

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

after 1924

Plaster cast of George V's right hand, on plaster

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1924

'Mickey Mouse' Type Cabinet

Printing & Writing

1925

Sunshine recorder spherical lens, 1923

Meteorology

1923

Protector Lamp and Light Co. L

Coal Mining

c. 1925

A Bench micrometer-head from a bench type measuri

Industrial Metrology

1924

Green 'Universal' electric was

Domestic Appliances

c.1924
Locomotive Worksplate, "Kerr, Stuart & Co Ltd. No 4298 - 1924, London & Stoke-on-Trent", brass, oval, 0-4-0 saddle tank outside cylinders locomotive, 2ft gauge KS Type "Wren", to H Boot & Sons, Elstree (contractors), to Alston Limestone Co, Cowfields Whinstone Quarry, to British Gypsum, Long Meg Gypsum Mines, Lazonby, scrapped May 1951.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1924

McVitie Weston valve collection, Western Electric Wecovalve valve, type 4215A

Electronic Components

c. 1923
Tender worksplate, London & North Eastern Railway, "London & North Eastern Railway 8900, Darlington Works 1923", cast brass, oval, for Class B16 4-6-0.

Tender worksplate, London & North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1923
Plaster cast of medallion, London & North Eastern Railway, to commemorate 100th anniversary of Locomotion No.1, in glazed oak frame, 1925.

Plaster cast of centenary medal, London & North Eastern Railway

Coins and Medals

1925
Locomotive Worksplate, Southern Railway, "Southern Railway E188", red, brass, oval, ex SR 2-6-2T LEW (built by Manning Wardle & Co 2042/7/1925), for Lynton & Barnstaple Line, exported to Brazil November 1935.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1925
Locomotive Worksplate, LNER, "London & North Eastern Railway 69838, Hawthorn Leslie & Co, 1925", cast brass, oval, A5/2 4-6-2T, LNER No. 1768, renumbered 9838 August 1946, British Railways 69838 March 1949, withdrawn November 1958.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1925

Royal typewriter, No. 10, c. 1923 (manufacturer's

Printing & Writing

1923
Orange and black vulcanite fountain pen with gold nib, c.1925.

Orange and black vulcanite fountain pen with gold nib, c.1925.

Printing & Writing

1925

Case "Aeo" light, 1924.

Sound Reproduction

1924
Cup, ceramic, London & North Eastern Railway, white with dark blue band with blue LNER monogram

Ceramic cup, London & North Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1924

Photograph of engraving of Napier's Bones, cylindr

Mathematics

1925
Locomotive Worksplate, "Beyer Peacock & Co Ltd, H.W. Garratt's Patent. No 17165 - 1907, Manchester 1925, BP 6209/25", brass, oval, if this plate for British built Garratt then must be for London & North Eastern Railway 280+ 0-8-2 tank locomotive, Class U1, No. 2395, renumbered to 9999 March 1946, renumbered to 69999 November 1948, withdrawn December 1955.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1925