N° d'objet
70/311
Description
A sheet of iron roughly shaped and ready to be made into a plough mould board. It came to the Museum as part of the Reeves collection.
Description physique
1 mouldboard: iron
Historique d'archive
MERL Miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 10 March 2014 – The Reeves Collection was donated by R. & J. Reeves and Son Ltd. of Bratton Iron Works near Westbury, Wiltshire. The firm, which manufactured agricultural machinery, was well-established by 1849, and went into final receivership in 1970, when the Collection was donated to MERL. Bratton Iron Works was demolished in 1973. A detailed list of all of the objects in the Collection can be found in the accession file for 70/235. Records relating to the firm can be found in the MERL Archives, reference TR REE., MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – ‘Accession number: 70/311 & 70/312 // Mouldboard // Industries // Reeves // Description:Two sheets of iron roughly shaped and ready to be made into plough mould boards. Dimensions: Length 108cm, width straight end: 13cm, wide end: 27cm’
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Matériel
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Document électronique
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