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In light of some of your most resent objects no pun intended lighting for the officers loos

Interesting line of thought Wally. It's not that but intriguing none the less. I have never seen an recommendations for lighting these facilities, indeed tactically it would be undesirable to have lighting. So I imagine everyone would try to do what they can before sunset thereafter they have to do it in the dark :shake:

Mobile route/traffic light or hazard marker, similar to our flashing orange lights of today?

Interesting idea Gary but its not that sort of thing.

Is it lighting for the horse

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Nope Roy not horse lighting, interesting thought though.

A form of convoy lighting

Nope Wally this lighting is only used when static.

Some sort of retro-fit lighting kit for the back of a buggy?

 

John

John yes it is a form of lighting, but not for a buggy. :-D

Is it for starting aeroplanes ?

Nope its not that Roy.

Hmm, broad question time, would it be used for communication/identification purposes?

 

Alec.

Broad answer Alec, nope :-D

Something to do with lubrication, perhaps?

 

Andy

Not lubrication Andy.

I was thinking along the lines of photographic, but it looks a little too compact for the era.

Yes not photographic Alec.

Could it be said the box contains an accumulator, feeding two devices/connections, actuated by a switch on a wander-lead? Alec.

Nearly, the box contains three "Q" inert cells & depending on the particular application feeding Cables, Nos. 6 to 10 at each end where there is a device with its own switch.

Is it electrical and medical

Wally yes it is electrical but not medical. (My dictionary said "dispense" could mean "distribute", so it does distribute electricity hence my woolyness about dispensing!)

Is it a steering arrangement for chains of trailers?

 

It looks like the "U" at the right is going to the front, and the other two items are at the rear. I'm guessing there are two small wheels at the front and two big wheels at the rear. The box underneath appears to be with the smaller wheels.

 

Edit: I missed the "dispensing" post. Is it a wet spray to damp down the dust? Control at the front?

Lauren the "U" doesn't go completely to the front although it lives in the present position in a clip but it can be moved around. The other two things are fixed.

The two short things in the middle are not small wheels, Wally has established that this equipment is just two wheeled.

Probably forget about dispensing, I had to say it was dictionary correct but that is confusing to think of dispensing as a worthwhile clue.

A measurement device to monitor road conditions/angles/corrugations?

 

Alec.

A good suggestion Alec but its not for that.

Smoke or gas emitting ?

Nothing noxious like that Roy. ("Dispensing" is perhaps misleading but if I said it wasn't dispensing when someone gets the answer it could be argued that it was dispensing something in its broadest sense)

IT looks like a oblong box for want of a better term is mounted under the axle and not at the rear is it dispensing something

Wally it is indeed a box, a steel one. From the description I have it is attached with the nuts & bolts provided but it is not clear where they should be. I imagine it would be close to the axle although there is some latitude as it could be fitted to more than one type of equipment.

PS In the broadest sense it is sort of dispensing something.

A counter system for dispensing or pacing something out?

 

Alec

Another plausible one Alec but its not that.

I don't know if this will help it but it was in service in 1926. It was the fifth model of this sort of equipment & a Mk 1 at that.

Is it a mobile telegraph wire testing machine or remote demolition firing point? Dynamo charges up a capacitor type of valve or battery to provide electrical charge/ discharge etc

 

Or an early type of load sensing apparatus

Gary I've got a lot to choose from there & all equally ingenious but it's not any of those I'm afraid.

was it for spraying liquid ?

Not for that Roy although some while ago we had one of those.

IS IT BRITISH a two wheeled army cart and is for testing purposes

Wally yes it two-wheeled & British. But not for testing it was operational equipment.

Hmmmm. Is it a wagon that goes down a mine ?

Not normally.

The NLBA's camp...

Sorry Lee I don't see the relevance to your comment. I'm not concerned with NLBA or their camping arrangements.

I was just saying that the camping enclosed within the white fence boundary was by & large green which was the organisers were aspiring to.

A dynamo system for lights ?

I hadn't thought of that Roy, it certainly looks as if it might be but it isn't.

somewhere up on the top of the site and spotted a Mack truck with what appeared to be a long tom.

I'm afraid I have no idea what either of those two things are. The trouble is people will have quite divergent ideas as to what they like & want to see & what should be in a prestige position. For example the only things I photographed were a Humber 1-Ton, a brown jerrican for water, a WW1 latrine & a blue rotor arm for a FFR Land Rover. I think people would be dismayed if some of those things were lined up at the entrance :-D

I think the answer lies in numerous ditch crossing points marked well with signs & on the map. Together with some hop on - hop off transport. This works well at Great Dorset Steam Fair.

We only really got visits from the public on Sat & Sun because they had to park some distance away & were taken by bus to the exhibitors entrance so had to walk past some of our exhibits to get to the rest of the show. On the other days the public saturated the stalls & very few had the determination to get far afield that was not help by the frustration ditches that couldn't be crossed.

I can't help but feel that the fair (that has little relevance to the event) occupied an unduly prestigious position that could be used perhaps as suggested by some of the prize winners.

I must say I thought the idea of the green camping within the white fencing worked well.

Any ideas? (yes & it was in a book I got at W&P)

Well I didn't have to queue up for this one :-D

Was Richard there ?