Model part
Category
Models
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, Metal
Measurements
58 x 58 mm; 143 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Westwood Manor, Wiltshire
NT 222862
Summary
A green and red painted wood and metal control mechanism for a model railway locomotive. The central thin cylindrical metal shaft has a slight hook at one end and a hole drilled perpendicularly through it near the other end. This hole once held a thick pin. The green painted wooden element is a sleeve over the metal shaft with a tapered plug towards the hook end and a recessed bearing hole at the other. The red painted wooden element has a slightly tapered plug at one end which locates in the bearing hole of the other wooden piece and a rising spiral metal collar at the other. It also has three radially-mounted metal pegs that are spaced 120 degrees apart from each other that allow the rotation of the entire element on the central metal shaft. The metal shaft's thick pin (now missing) would presumably run on the collar's upper edge. Rotation of the element, using the three metal pegs, would then move the shaft backwards and forwards causing the hook end to control or adjust some aspect of a mechanism within a chassis.