Door stop
Nuffield Mechanisations and Aero Ltd.
Category
Metalwork
Date
1939
Materials
Brass, Felt, Wood
Measurements
344 mm (H)125 mm (D)
Place of origin
Coventry
Collection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651088
Summary
Doorstop. Brass cartridge case round a wooden core, screwed to dark wooden base with blue felt underneath.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
engraved ; ; Cartridge case of the first proof round fired from the first Bofurs AA Gun manufactured by Nuffield Mechanisations and Aero Ltd., Coventry, June 22nd 1939 ; ;
Makers and roles
Nuffield Mechanisations and Aero Ltd.