Catalogue No: | C1465 |
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Category: | Vintage and Antique |
Object Type: | Indicator/Instrument |
Object Name: | Speedometer 0-60 |
Part No: | None |
Serial No: | 30960 |
Manufacturer: | Elliott Bros (London) Ltd |
Division: | Unknown |
Platform(s): | |
Year of Manufacture: | circa 1920 |
Dimensions: |
Width (mm): 135 Height (mm): 135 Depth (mm): 95 Weight (g): 842 |
Location: | Cupboard CG (Display 2) [Main Store] |
Elliott Brothers London Ltd
Reg No 668619
30960
This Instrument is a Type 14 Speedometer from around 1920. It has a black metal casing with circular glass panel at the front with a dial displaying 5-60 miles per hour a four digit Odometer and what we would call a Trip setting dial reading from 0-100 miles. The inner dial is also marked in red with fractional values but it is not clear what these indicate. The speedometers may have been for car or train, it’s not obvious, Elliotts advertised for both users.
The Speedometer was probably made at the Lewisham factory. The Speedometer was kindly donated by the late Ron Bristow in 2015 who found that they had been duplicated in the Elliott Historical Collection and Archive at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford. The original cracked glass has been replaced