Numero oggetto
63/466
Descrizione
A caulking iron is used to drive threads of oakum into the seams between the planks of a boat, which are then filled with pitch, to make the boat watertight. This caulking iron is a 'single crease iron' used after caulking to dress down and compress the oakum to ensure that there is sufficient room for the pitch. It is marked 'Ward Warranted' on one side, and 'J. B. Bushell' on the other. It belonged to the Bushell Brothers, Charlie and Joseph, who ran a canal boat building and repair business at Gannel in New Mill, Tring, on the Wendover Arm Canal, until their retirement in 1952. They also did general coach-building.
Storico archivio
MERL Miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 1 March 2013 – The donor’s father was one of the Bushell Brothers. The Bushell Brothers, Charlie and Joseph, ran a canal boat building and repair business at Gannel in New Mill, Tring, on the Wendover Arm Canal. The business was founded by their father, Joseph Bushell Senior, in 1875. They took over its running in 1912, and the business closed in 1952 when they retired. This Collection comprises tools and other objects used at Bushell Brothers, as well as other various old tools that the donor's father, who was always interested in rural crafts, collected druing his retirement.
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