fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Any ideas? (yes & it was in a book I got at W&P) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 A dynamo system for lights ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 A dynamo system for lights ? I hadn't thought of that Roy, it certainly looks as if it might be but it isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Hmmmm. Is it a wagon that goes down a mine ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 Hmmmm. Is it a wagon that goes down a mine ? Not normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 IS IT BRITISH a two wheeled army cart and is for testing purposes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 was it for spraying liquid ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzaw Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangie Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 A counter system for dispensing or pacing something out? Alec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 was it for spraying liquid ? Not for that Roy although some while ago we had one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) 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. Edited July 25, 2013 by fv1609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locolines Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Smoke or gas emitting ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangie Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 A measurement device to monitor road conditions/angles/corrugations? Alec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 A measurement device to monitor road conditions/angles/corrugations? Alec. A good suggestion Alec but its not for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) 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? Edited July 25, 2013 by Lauren Child Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Is it electrical and medical Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangie Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I was thinking along the lines of photographic, but it looks a little too compact for the era. Could it be said the box contains an accumulator, feeding two devices/connections, actuated by a switch on a wander-lead? Alec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Something to do with lubrication, perhaps? Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted July 25, 2013 Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 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!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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