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Guess what this is - e-richard - 20-11-2018
Does anyone know what this is ?
Its not specific to Austin, but you would know if you had bought your A7 brand new when it was built.
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No prize for guessing correctly other than the honour.
RE: Guess what this is - Martin Prior - 20-11-2018
I have one of these, although mine was bought new in the States in the 'seventies. I've never needed to use it!
RE: Guess what this is - Derek Sheldon - 20-11-2018
Haven’t got a clue
RE: Guess what this is - Martin Prior - 20-11-2018
Clue: The pale grey bit is a hollow tube.
RE: Guess what this is - JonE - 20-11-2018
is it for fuel somehow?
RE: Guess what this is - squeak - 20-11-2018
I too think this is a later iteration. The example shown was in use in the sixties on small round sealed cans of oil, as refillable bottles were being phased out.
I have one from the teens and twenties, it is a brass and steel stirrup that lodges under the corner of the 4 gallon square tin can. There is a handle which presses the spout into the top corner. These tin cans came as a pair in a wooden box for delivery into parts of the country where there was no pumped fuel supply.
RE: Guess what this is - SneezerUSA - 20-11-2018
When I worked in a gas or service station as a teenager these were used to pierce 1 quart cans of oil. The spout was then used to pore the oil into the crankcase. Oil cans at the time were constructed of thin sheet tin.
RE: Guess what this is - Tony Press - 20-11-2018
(20-11-2018, 11:06 PM)squeak Wrote: I too think this is a later iteration. The example shown was in use in the sixties on small round sealed cans of oil, as refillable bottles were being phased out.
I have one from the teens and twenties, it is a brass and steel stirrup that lodges under the corner of the 4 gallon square tin can. There is a handle which presses the spout into the top corner. These tin cans came as a pair in a wooden box for delivery into parts of the country where there was no pumped fuel supply.
I think Russell is right - that is a sixties oil pourer for oil tins before plastic took over. Not sure they were around in the twenties or thirties in that form.
Mind you I haven't seen the square tin pourer .
RE: Guess what this is - Ruairidh Dunford - 20-11-2018
Looks like something worn in a Shakespearean play!!
RE: Guess what this is - Bill Sheehan - 21-11-2018
(20-11-2018, 11:23 PM)Ruairidh Dunford Wrote: Looks like something worn in a Shakespearean play!!And here was I too thinking it was a cod-piece from an old suit of armour. Cheers, Bill in Oz