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Motorcycle and sidecar

Road Transport

1916

Linotype 78 Linecasting Machine

Printing & Writing

Linotype Elektron

Printing & Writing

1962

Roller Blind Shutter for Camera

Photographic Technology

1900

'Miehle' Printing Press

Printing & Writing

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

Folding stand triple extension camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 f/6-45 No. 40668 (Aldis). Thornton Pickard Time and Instantaneous shutter 15/30/45/75/90/T. Sliding and rising front, sliding cross and falling front. Swing front and back. Reversible back. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels with triple extension. Built in tripod turntables. Separate tripod legs. Thornton-Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

Photographic Technology

1905-1915

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905-1910

"Ruby Horizontal" Camera

Photographic Technology

1934-1936

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

1870-1880

Linotype Model 50SM

Printing & Writing

1926

Puck Camera

Photographic Technology

1925-1930

Letterhead Plate

Printing & Writing

Type C aerial camera

Photographic Technology

1915

'Merito-Optical' Lantern Projector

Photographic Technology

1905-1915

Linotype Model 79

Printing & Writing

1959

Thornton Pickard film pack adaptor for Junior Special box camera.

Thornton Pickard Junior Special Film Pack Adaptor

Photographic Technology

Ohmmeter made by Record of Broadheath

Electricity Supply

'Imperial' triple extension half plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1908; c.1908; c.1908

'Mickey Mouse' Linecaster

Printing & Writing

Cup Leather Mould

Hand and Machine Tools

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

Cup Leather Mould

Hand and Machine Tools

'Junior Special' single lens reflex camera

Photographic Technology

c.1927; c.1927

Linotype Engraving Machine

Printing & Writing

Ram Leather

Hand and Machine Tools

Linotype Model 48

Printing & Writing

1935

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905-1910

Single lens reflex camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch film packs. Fitted with a Taylor Taylor Hobson Cooke anastigmat series XI lens no 123826 F: 6 1/4 inch f/3.5-16. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing, focal plane shutter 10/15/25/50/75/100/150/200/300/500/1000/T. Shutter released by mirror raising knob, rotating back with Thornton Pickard film pack adaptor. Ground glass focusing screen with depp hood. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton Pickard junior special reflex camera

Photographic Technology

Hat Leather

Hand and Machine Tools

Cup Leather

Hand and Machine Tools

Thornton Pickard Ruby Horizontal single lens reflex camera for negatives 2 1/2 x 3 1/2. With no reversing back. With focal plane shutter, speeds 1/10 - 1/1000sec and T. Fitted with a Taylor T. Hobson Cooke Anastigmat F.4.5 5". c 1920.

Thornton Pickard Ruby Horizontal single lens reflex camera, c 1920

Photographic Technology

1915-1925

Thornton Pickard Ruby camera. Quarterplate folding camera, brass and mahogany. Bellows plate. Rising and swing front. Double focussing pinions - front and back Pendulum level. Built-in tripod fittings. No.3193A. Fitted with Cooke lens 1259. No 3193.

Thornton Pickard Ruby camera

Photographic Technology

1899-1905

Thornton Pickard focal plane shutter for whole plate camera. /200/400/600/800/1000 sec. Focusing screen in swing out back. No. E 72583.

Thornton Pickard focal plane shutter

Photographic Technology

Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter 12/25/35/50/70/T for 55mm diameter lens mount. No. M90127.

Thornton-Pickard time and Instantaneous shutter

Photographic Technology

Horizontal enlarger for quarterplate negatives. Lens missing. Perken, son and rayment rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64. SCrew focusing. Double plano convex condensers, removable diffuser. Originally fitted with inverted fas jet. Thornton Pickard

Thornton-Pickard imperial horizontal enlarger

Photographic Technology

1930-1940

Vice tool used to secure an object for work, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Vice tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Clamp tool used to position objects for work, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Clamp tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Spanner made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Spanner made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Tap wrench tool used to turn taps or other small tools, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Tap wrench handle tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

B block tool used to support a workpiece for manufacturing or inspection, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

V block tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Internal calipers tool used to measure the distance between two sides of an object, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Internal calipers tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Filing tool used to shape metal, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Filing tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Box camera for 120 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture. T/I rotary shutter and two reflecting finders. Houghton Butcher.

J.B. Ensign camera

Photographic Technology

Patent brass compressor for pneumatic release ball. Incorporates time valve: 8/4/2/ 1,2,3 secs. Thornton Pickard/

Thornton Pickard ball compressor

Photographic Technology

Gunnery training camera, for 120 rollfilm. Lens and graticule missing. Exposure made by pulling trigger, film transported and shutter set by cocking lever.

Thornton-Pickard Mk III gun camera

Photographic Technology

1915-1925

Punch tool used to make a mark in an object before drilling, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Punch tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Tap wrench tool used to turn taps or other small tools, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Tap wrench tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Space band owned by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Space band from Linotype machine owned by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965

Gauge tool used to check the accuracy of work, made by Bob Watkins during his time as an apprentice at the Linotype and Machinery Co. in Broadheath, Trafford in the mid-1960s.

Gauge tool made by Bob Watkins

Printing & Writing

c1965