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Non motoring what is it
Posted: 02 Jun 2020 17:46
by Mike Hodgson
Altho it is a non motoring item it was a freeby to some customers from this motor factor.
I think it is from 50/60s and is unused.
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 02 Jun 2020 18:42
by Midlife
Is it some sort of paper dispenser?
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 02 Jun 2020 19:43
by Mike Hodgson
Midlife wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020 18:42
Is it some sort of paper dispenser?
Fraid not no paper but metal is involved
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 02 Jun 2020 22:20
by Midlife
Razor blade dispenser?
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 02 Jun 2020 22:35
by Mike Hodgson
Midlife wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020 22:20
Razor blade dispenser?
You are very very close ,it's not a dispenser
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 03 Jun 2020 08:57
by Keith Bennett
Look, the label on the box gives it away - even I can tell it's a Ferrari piston. Honestly, wot a give-away.
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 03 Jun 2020 09:40
by Midlife
So that's how they make Ferrari pistons....
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 03 Jun 2020 09:45
by Stoney13
pencil sharpener ??
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 03 Jun 2020 10:03
by Graham Bish
I'ts a Razor Blade Sharpener!
The manufacturer was Buck & Abbott Ltd of Preston, Lancashire. Insert the blade, turn the handle guess around 1950s.
Ferraris Piston Services are better known as FPS Distribution. They where part of Lookers until a few years ago. They run those distinctive Peppermint Green delivery vans.
Re: Non motoring what is it
Posted: 03 Jun 2020 10:36
by Mike Hodgson
Graham Bish wrote: ↑03 Jun 2020 10:03
I'ts a Razor Blade Sharpener!
The manufacturer was Buck & Abbott Ltd of Preston, Lancashire. Insert the blade, turn the handle guess around 1950s.
Ferraris Piston Services are better known as FPS Distribution. They where part of Lookers until a few years ago. They run those distinctive Peppermint Green delivery vans.
Spot on .The internals consist of a pair of contra rotating cylindrical strops and the gearing flips the blade over at the end of a rotation so both sides of the blade are honed.