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58/60
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
This wheelwright's vice has a wooden base with an iron clamp. It is missing its handle and screw. It was made circa 1838 by an apprentice to Mr Passingham, a farrier, blacksmith and wheelwright of Longford, Middlesex. It was used by the apprentice at Longford, and at the premises of George Nixey, a wheelwrighting firm in Slough.
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Vice: wood, iron
[nb-NO]Archival history[nb-NO]
Letter, Edward Flaxman to MERL, 3 April 1958 – ‘I have in my possession a few old wheelwrights’ tools as under:– // 2 handmade cramps & brace with handmade drills; 1 handmade vice; 1 handmade bow saw frame and saws. // These were given to my father (now 84) in his youth by an old wheelwright who was then over 80 & who had made them when he was an apprentice. This was in the village of Farnham Common (Bucks)... Yours faithfully, Edward Flaxman’, MERL ‘Associated information’ form – 'This may be a cork squeezer - see Salaman. Dict. of Tools'
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Longford
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]
1830 - 1839
[nb-NO]Production period[nb-NO]
1830s
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