Lead and acid accumulator `battery` used in the 1940s
Lead-acid 2V accumulator made by the Chloride Electrical Storage Company around 1940-1950. Two lead plates submerged in sulphuric acid (no longer present) within a glass box with carrying handle. The accumulator would be charged every week and used for powering radio sets (heated the valves).
Wooden carrying box for glass accumulator
Wooden carrying box for a glass lead-acid accumulator battery. Recreated by John Fletcher, Balemartine, from one belonging to Dugald MacArthur, tailor, Balemartine.
Ship`s gimballed binnacle compass ca 1930s
Gimballed binnacle compass mounted on a wooden board. It would originally have been mounted in the ship`s wheelhouse. Made by Dobbie McInnes 1902-1937, but probably used in the 1930s. Unknown provenance (found in a cupboard in Tiree High School in 2014).
Portable gramophone from around 1930
`Alba` portable gramophone record player, model 505, in a brown leather-clad wooden box with hinged lid and leather carrying handle. Includes spare needle and a gramophone record of `Royal Belfast Hornpipe`.
Hand drill from the 1930s
Iron and wooden hand-turned drill used during the 1930s.
Two badges and a certificate for proficiency in Gaelic conversation, 1930s
Two brass badges (one gold and one red) and a small card certificate awarded to Fionnghal NicFhioghainn (Miss Fiona? MacKinnon), and signed by Neil Shaw on behalf of An Commun Gaidhealach. Mr Shaw came to the school every year in the 1930s to examine the pupils` ability to make Gaelic conversation. Grades of proficiency were gold (bottom grade), colour? (làn/full, second grade) and red (sàr/excellent, top grade).
Life belt from the ferry `Loch Seaforth`
Red and white, circular life belt from the ferry ‘Loch Seaforth’, which sank alongside Gott pier in 1973 after hitting rocks in Gunna Sound.
Iron hoof pick
Smiddie-made iron pick for removing dirt and stones from horses` feet. From Lodge Farm, Kirkapol.
Urine testing kit from the 1960s.
Urine testing kit used in the Eventide Home in the 1960s. Includes a wooden stand, four stoppered bottles, a glass tube, three labelled sample containers, a burner and a urinometer for measuring urine specific gravity.
Lamp from a Post Office cart, ca 1900
Brass paraffin lamp used on the Post Office cart around 1900. Square in shape with covered vent at top. Two clear glass panes, one small circular red pane, and one mirrored side. Would have slotted into a bracket on the cart.
