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Turntable, slide
The advantage of a turntable without rails is that wagons can be pushed across it from any angle without first aligning the tracks. The cast iron plates guide the wheels back onto the tracks.
Collection of slides forming lecture "Rails in the Slate Industry" by D.R. Geering, UMIST 3rd year Mechanical Engineering Projects, c.1975 (copy of lecture notes in related material).
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2012.60/155
Creation/Production
Geering, D.R.
Date: 1975 (circa)
Acquisition
Donation, 29/8/2012
Measurements
Length
(mm): 50
Width
(mm): 50
Height
(mm): 2
Techniques
colour (photograph)
photograph
Material
film (photographic)
plastic
Location
In store
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