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Found amongst scrap at Staverton
Languishing amongst other rusty bits and pieces at Staverton is this 'thing'. It clearly had sack truck type handles, is strongly built and carries a plateKent Engineering and Foundry, Phoenix works, Tovil, Maidstone
M/C 3596 1955.
My guess is that it is for handling stone slabs [there are plenty along the edges of railway platforms…] but does anyone have knowledge? By pressing down on a rear mounted foot pedal the centre strap is raised which in turn moves the 'horns' inwards. The pedal may be held in the depressed position by a latch.The horns remain at a fixed height in relation to the wheels.
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Probably way off, though.
Max
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Ice!
Cor, you have woken a memory of Cyprus in the very early 1950s, the iceman dragging big slabs into the kitchen and putting them in the lead-lined icebox. Our landlady's kids used to drink the cold drain water from the 'box, the only time I did it I got the screaming ab-dabs….
Doug
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We also had a similar device for picking up and carrying 44 gallon drums.
Yes. We had horse drawn vans for bread, milk, ice, vegies, etc.
To show you how old I am, I used to work weekends for a milky who had a horse and cart; when on weekend leave from the Police Academy. (Age 17 years). So that was in 1963! :oops:
Max
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Yes. We had horse drawn vans for bread, milk, ice, vegies, etc.
like wise & what the horses dropped, made ideal garden fertilizer.
But I can't offer any suggestions Doug…
Ron
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Tilt the drum forward, engage the centre strap end under the drum edge, press the peddle the drum raises and the lugs go underneath to support it, the centre strap locked off secures the drum to the barrow.
Just a guess though….
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Andy
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I have no knowledge of such a device but I’m going to guess stone blocks were it’s primary load.
Marty
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Maybe it was used in a concrete slab makers where it moved several hundred of the same sized slab each production run.
I'd love to know!
By the way, later this month I shall be on a caravan site very near to Newcastle Emlyn, small world, isn't it!
Doug
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And then there is the narrow gauge Teifi Valley railway at Henllan if they are still going. It uses the old GWR branchline route and for me was quite evocative and a reminder of days gone past.
Enjoy.
Marty
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Shaun.
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I think they had to start again after the landlord went broke and ripped up the tracks in 2014?
Doug
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I find the ebb and flow of this little railway fascinating and hadn’t been aware of the developments over the last few years.
This from Wikipedia
“As of May 2016, track relaying had reached as far as Forest Halt, and train operations had resumed.â€
Best of luck to them.
If I had the money….
Marty
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