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Wagon for finished slates, film slide
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).
In use at the Maenofferen, the axleboxes bear the legend:- L.N.W. Earlstown 1885. As with the block wagons, wood was preferred to steel, but only the more robust steel types now survive.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2012.60/136
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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