Bennet B. Burley spokeshave made at Barrowfield Works in Glasgow in 1881-1936. From the workshop of Vaul boatbuilders.
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Steel 7″ gimlet with wooden handle, for boring holes into wood. Used by Vaul boatbuilders.
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Home-made hardwood bevel gauge stamped with ‘C Campbell’.
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Folding ruler made of wood and brass by John Rabone & Sons, Birmingham, 1877-1937.
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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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Hand counter-sink tool from Vaul boat-builders in the 1930s. Wooden handle.
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Schrader-Universal tyre pressure gauge used by RAF Servicemen on Tiree during WWII. Compact and made of steel, it was manufactured in the USA by A. Schrader’s Son Inc., New York, for use on Michelin Dunlop tyres, and patented in Australia and England. The end pops out when it reaches the correct pressure.
2016.71.1
Militia and Defence Jacknife made by Thomas Turner & Co., Sheffield, for the Canadian forces during WWI. Inscribed “M&D Canada 1915”. Used after the war by the uncle of Donald Brown, Vaul.
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Home-made, brass, cigarette lighter, made by Iain MacKinnon, Vaul, in the 1930s, using parts from an old grease-gun.
2015.16.1
Wilkinson’s hand razor in its chrome-plated/EPNS/stainless steel box, manufactured around 1950. Found in ‘Four Winds’, Kilmoluaig in 2015.
