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Twenty Metropolitan-Vickers gas turbine blades in various states of manufacture used by donor as training/teaching aids.

Meotrpolitan-Vickers Turbine Blades

Aircraft Propulsion

1950-19569
Basic brick used for lining Bessemer converters in Thomas-Gilchrist process.

Fragments of Bricks from the Bessemer Converter, 1878

Metallurgy

1878
Gearwheel, steel shaft with attached pinion, part of a bearing housing stamped ‘S733’, gunmetal pipe connector threaded at one end with mounting plate, brass pipe connector, in crystal box, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Gearwheel, shaft, bearing housing and pipe connectors, associated with a 10hp two-cylinder Rolls Royce motorcar

Road Transport
Detached parts : a receiver and 3 bars (2 with pins in)

Detached parts : a receiver and 3 bars

Textiles Machinery
Four brass components, from Smiths spring driven floating balance clock with gong hour-striking

Components from spring driven floating balance clock

Time Measurement
piece of silk wrapped around leather cushion from Cylinder ‘Medico-Electrical Machine’, made by Edward Nairne and Thomas Blunt.

piece of silk wrapped around leather cushion from ‘Medico-Electrical Machine’

Electricity and Magnetism

1782-1793
Hand crank for the Prestwich 35mm cine camera (first model).

Hand crank for Prestwich 35mm Cine Camera

Cinematography

1897
Parts to model steam locomotive, 1/8 scale, London & South Western Railway 4-4-2 "Radial Tank", live steam, built by Harold William Greenberry (1916-1996).

Parts to model London & South Western Railway locomotive

Railway Models

1916-1996
Replacement parts to model steam locomotive, 1/16 scale, North British Railway 4-4-2 No. 872 `Auld Reekie', made in 1986

Parts for model locomotive

Railway Models

1986