Components

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Hand-Drawn China Machine Schematics

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This orthographic projection, lying in dust and detritus on an old set of drawers in the office, was dated August 26th, 1963. It depicts components for a device called the ‘Murphy M/Speed Splitter’, which would have been manufactured in the workshop downstairs.

Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street – warehouse – Small Crank Operated Power Press and Tensile Testing China Machine

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I went to the Open Day at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street on the 13th of May 2012.

At the Dollman Street Stores they have objects that are not currently on display in the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery or Think Tank. Some items used to be in the old Museum of Science & Industry on Newhall Street.

In the warehouse at the Museum Collections Centre – 25 Dollman Street. Lots of large items in here.

Two machines.

Small Crank Operated Power Press and Tensile Testing China Machine

Small Crank Operated Power Press – Used to stamp out small metal components by Edwin Lowe, Bearing Manufacturers of Perry Barr, Birmingham, 50 years ago.

Tensile Testing China Machine (c. 1950) – Loughborough College hydraulic machines like this one were used by Colleges to find the amount of ‘stretch’ in different materials.