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Control Box for Gyro, Type IT 3-8-8.

Control Box for Gyro, Type IT 3-8-8.

Chemical reagent

Chemical reagent

Record, marked with 'O'

Record, marked with 'O'

Record, marked "(O (b)"

Record, marked "(O (b)"

Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor

Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor

1957
Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor, 1957. During the 1950s Rotinoff Motors made approximately 36 heavy-duty tractors known as Rotinoff Atlantics and Super Atlantics. Almost all were exported; used by the Swiss Army or in Australian cattle trains, except this one. It was bought by Sunter Bros Ltd, a heavy haulage company, in 1957 to deliver the UK’s first nuclear reactor to the Bradwell Power Station, Essex. The Rotinoff had to carried 12 heat exchangers; each weighed 300 tons and carried separately the load was the heaviest to be hauled by a vehicle in the UK. After the Bradwell job Sunter Bros continued to use the Atlantic until 1974. This Rotinoff also achieved another first by being the heaviest vehicle to take part in the London to Brighton run.

Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor

1957
Glass bottle of Cotarnine HCl, by L. Light & Co., part of 104 assorted bottles of histological stains, various makers, British, 20th century.

Glass bottle of Cotarnine HCl

1901-1970
Ignition and door keys for Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor, 1957.

Ignition and door keys for Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor

1957
Components from Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor, consisting of a starter motor, hook, metal pole with circular handle an angled end, rubber mats, rubber left angle hose with attached invoice, two rubber pipes with jubilee clips and miscellaneous electrical components and fixings.

Components from Rotinoff GR7 Atlantic road tractor

1957