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Part of roadster bicycle frame

Road Transport

Spare gimbal from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Assay apparatus; components

Metallurgy

Drum brake component, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Assay apparatus; components

Metallurgy

Section of steel casting, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Aluminium sheet, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Part of roadster bicycle frame

Road Transport

Water pump driving fork, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Part of roadster bicycle frame

Road Transport

Part of roadster bicycle frame

Road Transport

Aluminium sheet, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

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

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

Aeronautics

1940

Assay apparatus; components

Metallurgy

Part of roadster bicycle frame

Road Transport

Section of steel casting, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Remote Control from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Spare parts from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Assay apparatus; components

Metallurgy

Harness from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Gimbal from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Piston head, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Part of roadster bicycle frame

Road Transport

4 of 6 rotor blades from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Counterweight (3 parts) from original Froude Resistance Dynamometer

Froude

1870

Screen from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Frame from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

2 of 6 rotor blades from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Components, including pipes and generator brush gear, for Parsons three-phase turbo-alternator made by C. A. Parsons and Company Ltd. at Heaton Works in 1900.

Components for Parsons Three-Phase Turbo-Alternator

Electricity Supply

1900

Spare parts and fixings for the mimic board from Becca Hall, used as a regional UK National Grid electricity control centre until 1997. Made about 1980.

Spare parts and fixings

Electricity Supply

3 of 6 rotor blades from Hexacopter drone kit and digital video camera. The kit was built by the Global Video Unit and used to collect video footage for the BBC's news platforms worldwide.

3 of 6 rotor blades from BBC Global Video Unit hexacopter drone

Television

2013

Cake of blown metal and cinder from the Blaenavon Works, South Wales, produced in the Thomas-Gilchrist process.

Fragment of Metal and Cinder from Iron Making, 1878

Metallurgy

1878

Steel hex nut and two washers, in crystal box marked ‘Rear/inc, S23, S206 and S263’, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Hex nut and two washers, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

12 slotted hex nuts, 12 countersunk wood screws, 2 box locking levers, copper washer, brass washer, 2 steel washers, 3 fibre washers, brass hose connector and pipe connector, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

35 components associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Coachbolt with square nut attached, 35 countersunk wood screws, 9 raised head wood screws, 7 pan head machine screws, 4 countersunk machine screws, 2 stud bolts threaded at both ends, 2 steel securing pins, 7 brass hex nuts, 15 steel hex nut, 1 slotted steel hex nut, 5 steel slip rings, 5 steel flat washers, brass connector with thread and housings, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

94 components associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

5 stud bolts threaded at each end, 3 slotted pan head machine screws, 2 ball bearings, steel hex nut, gunmetal flat washer, gunmetal hex nut, 2 brass hex nuts, outside threaded pipe connector, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

14 components associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Small galvanometer string, used by Sir Thomas Lewis, made by the Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd., Cambridge, 1934

Small galvanometer string, used by Sir Thomas Lewi

Clinical Diagnosis

1934

Box of spare parts for EMI CT brain scanner, installed at the Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Wimbledon in 1971 (the first used clinically), by EMI, Hayes, Middlesex, 1970-1971.

Components for EMI CT scanner

Radiomedicine

1970-1971

7 steel coach bolts with painted heads, 3 square head bolts, 3 hex bolts, 3 countersunk machine screws, 2 stud bolts threaded at each end, 6 hex nuts, brass clip, and steel component, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

26 components associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Fibre gasket, 11 fibre washers, 2 interlinked fibre washers, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Gasket and washers, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Copper clip with drilled hole, mild steel hex nut and steel hex nut slotted at one end, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Clip and two hex nuts, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

Box of assorted parts

Components for Technicon Auto Analyser

Biochemistry

Miscellaneous components for Julius Totalisator, including; one metal bar; one metal fitting; box of nuts and bolts and a bag containing smaller screws and brackets.

Miscellaneous components for Julius Totalisator

Computing & Data Processing

Smiths spring driven floating balance clock and brass components, in wooden case, 1956-1965.

Spring driven floating balance clock

Time Measurement

1956-1965

Cork from Cylinder ‘Medico-Electrical Machine’, made by Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt. it is presumed that it had been removed from inside of the Leyden jars.

cork from ‘Medico-Electrical Machine’

Electricity and Magnetism

1782-1793

Seven semi-conductors - 1 x Get 872 transistor, 1 x GET 103 transistor, 1 x unidentified transistor , 3 x unidentified components probably diodes. c.1950.

transistor & diodes

Electronic Components

c. 1950

Parts for scale model of seed and liquid manure bucket elevator drill, 1847

Parts for scale model of seed and liquid manure bucket elevator drill

Agricultural Engineering

Crystal box containing a nut, threaded stud and studding connector nut from the from the 10hp, 2-Cylinder Rolls-Royce motor car, Royce Limited, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, 1905

Nut, threaded stud and studding connector nut from the from the 10hp, 2-Cylinder Rolls-Royce motor car

Road Transport

1905

Part of the battery box cover, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Battery box cover, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport

One metal beam from Julius Totalisator

Miscellaneous components for Julius Totalisator

Computing & Data Processing