Schrader spark plug tyre pump from the 1950s. To operate, it was screwed into the spark plug mounting of the engine, and, when the engine was turned on, blew an air/fuel mixture into the tyre.
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Acquisitions
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Hand counter-sink tool from Vaul boat-builders in the 1930s. Wooden handle.
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Black-painted, iron balance beam scales from the Thatched House Museum at Sandaig. The museum closed in 2010 and many of its display items were passed on to An Iodhlann.
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Colour photograph of Mr Baxter Nisbet talking with Aad van Ruiten in Lochgilphead in May 2018. Aad was a Dutch bulb-grower and Mr Nisbet played a role in the Tiree bulb industry in the 1960s.
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Photocopied article titled ‘Bulb Growing in Scotland’ by DH Turner, from the Scottish Agriculture publication in Spring 1969. Tiree joined the bulb growing industry during that time.