Swash-plate axial aero engine, designed by John Wooler and made by the Wooler Motor Cycle Company (1919) Limited, Middlesex, England, 1947 Swash-plate axial aero engine 1947
Air-insulated x-ray tube insert with copper anode and grid control of the filament emission 1950-1974
`Bylock' electric hairdryer, all-bakelite casing, 200-250V; 0.2-2.5A; 50-550W; 50 cycles; 9,500 revs, machine no.12W73459B; to B.S.170/39. Made in England by Bylock Electric Ltd, South St., Ponders End, Middx. c.1945 'Bylock' electric hairdryer, 1945. 1941-1950
5 ampoules of `Gonadotraphon' gonadotrophin and 5 ampoules of phenol solvent in water solution for injection 1981
One photograph of a woman working at the E.M.I. factory in Hayes, Middlesex. Caption on back reads: 'Evacuating Emiscope cathode ray tunes at the E.M.I. factory, Hayes'. Daily Herald Photograph: Evacuating cathode ray tubes 1949-06-07
One photograph of women working in the His Master's Voice gramophone factory titled 'Summer time means employment for thousands of girls making portable gramophones'. Caption on back reads: 'Here is a section of the 'His Master's Voice' eighty acre factories at Hayes, Middlesex, where they are working overtime to produce hundreds of multi-coloured portables per day'. Attribution on back reads: 'With the compliments of Richard Arbib, Press Manager with the Gramophone Co, Ltd., 363/7, Oxford Street W. [...?] Day-Mayfair 1240. Night-Maida Vale [...?]'. Includes a stamp that reads: 'Copyright. No fee providing acknowledgement is given to 'His Masters Voice''. Daily Herald Photograph: His Master's Voice gramophone factory 1933-01-04
One of six calotype prints, showing a 20-inch reflecting telescope with speculum mirror [Nasmyth focus] on a modified altazimuth mounting [see 1933-21] built by James Nasmyth at his Patricroft works, Manchester. Taken by him at of his large house, 'Hammerhurst' near Penshurst in Kent and dated 29th May 1866. Calotype print of Nasmyth's 20-inch reflecting telescope, 1866 1866
Lagonda saloon car built in Middlesex in 1957 by Aston Martin. Features a three litre six-cylinder twin-overhead-cam engine, a cruciform chassis and independent suspension. Lagonda saloon car built in Middlesex in 1957 by Aston Martin. 1957
Box of additional equipment for CPS Emitron television camera; side panel for camera; vision hood; head phones; head phones; control handle; lens barrel marked '5 inch lens'; lens barrel with Dallmeyer Orthanc Anastigmatic lens F=8", f/4, Serial No 533876. Additional Equipment For CPS Emitron Television Camera 1946-1953
Rank pocket camera in original box with manual, Rank Arena, 1950-1969, collected as part of Kodak New for Old collection. Camera, Rank 1950-1969