Model Engineering Works
A model engineering works. Perhaps used for factory planning, the models are all magnetic so can be repositioned, and include lathes, drills, milling machines and grinders.
Tag: model
Model Offshore Wind Turbine
A metal model of a wind turbine, from the official opening ceremony of the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm, September 2010.
Model Sternframe and Rudder
A metal model ship’s sternframe and rudder, maker unknown, for a 15,500 tonnes bulk carrier.
Longannet Presentation Model
A model of a coal crushing machine, presented to Francis Tombs (chairman of the South of Scotland Electricity Board) by the staff of Longannet Power Station on 17th March 1977.
McEwan’s Fountain Brewery Model
A model of the William McEwan & Co. Fountain Brewery in Edinburgh, from June 1941.
Model Foundry Crucible
A model of a foundry crucible, with tilting mechanism and a tapping device.
Model Tait Tower
A Bakelite model of the Tait Tower or Tower of Empire, built in Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park for the 1938 Empire Exhibition.
Model Yarrow Boiler
A model Yarrow boiler, as fitted to hundreds of Clydebuilt ships.
Shaped Charge Explosive Display
A wooden model shaped-charge explosive, and a steel plate pierced by a similar (real) charge, both from Nobel’s Explosives.
Model Dry Stone Walls
A set of three model dry stone walls, made in pottery – perhaps a teaching aid, origin unknown.
Glasgow-Made Model Steam Engine
A little hobbyist-made horizontal steam engine, made in Glasgow in 1908 – it still runs beautifully on compressed air.