Rusted relics

[dobbslc]

About waist height.

 

[selectedgrub]

What are they for or what do they control ?
When people say got loads of them at work are they installed or just surplus or not used anymore?

 

[dobbslc]

The one in my picture controls a valve or sluce gate or something similar at an old waterworks in easy London.

 

[minimutly]

The one in my picture controls a valve or sluce gate or something similar at an old waterworks in easy London.

Most of our reservoirs are 100 plus yrs old, with kit like that still working on them. What I find annoying sometimes is "engineers" deciding that by doing away with that kind of stuff and fitting new (cheap chinese imprts) is an improvement - these sometimes don't even survive their warranty period....

 

[Anguz]

Tall enough

 

[cardiffrob]

Those props in Pula look like Hamilton Standard 3E50 props off of the DC3. Could also be the bigger brother version off of a canadair 215 floatplane that was lost off Zadar in the 1980s?

 

[selectedgrub]

Will get this one removed would be ideal on top of the container.

 

[Mick Annick]

Will get this one removed would be ideal on top of the container.

Any idea what they were for?

 

[selectedgrub]

Hi Mick the wheel is from a turbine it's about 6ft high.
The other is an end emptying door off a small hopper rail wagon

 

[Mick Annick]

Hi Mick the wheel is from a turbine it's about 6ft high.
The other is an end emptying door off a small hopper rail wagon

Thank you! I love the profile of the wheel.

 

[Bornfree]

Anyone know these are?

 

[Anguz]

Old school handles or lifting eyes for a chamber lid or biscuit that covers a chamber

 

[Maker]

There's similar on Great Waldingfield aerodrome, I've always assumed they were tie downs for planes.

 

[nickk]

Old school handles or lifting eyes for a chamber lid or biscuit that covers a chamber

I can’t see that size steel tolerating that size of concrete.

 

[Screwdriver]

They must be tie down points.

 

[Other Daniel]

Airship mooring points.

 

[Bornfree]

There's similar on Great Waldingfield aerodrome, I've always assumed they were tie downs for planes.

Your correct these are on RAF attlebridge norfolk. A wartime heavy bomber base.

 

[Anguz]

I can’t see that size steel tolerating that size of concrete.

they are part of the rebar of the reinforcing in the ones i have seen... cause headaches for the guys doing the lifts

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A few from todays work site.

 

[dobbslc]

Wow a proper breakers yard!