TOOL RACK: EX PERTH MODERN SCHOOL, MANUAL ARTS SECTION

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Overview

Wood, Steel, Stainless Steel, Brass, Plastic, Paint.

All intact and in working order (except planes), showing signs of constant use. Timber worn and pitted. Varnish, paintwork, and trademark labels chipped.

Tool rack from Perth Modern School woodwork room. The donor (Chr?) Doug Love, who taught at Perth Modern School retrieved the tool rack and two sets of tools when the equipment was replaced in 1995.

Mr. Love contacted Mr Arthur Mawby, a retired manual arts teacher at Perth Modern School who examined the rack and tools and described their use.

See attachments to data sheet explaining all the tools.*

*** Tools stored in Tray 11

01.22 - Tool Rack, Perth Modern School Woodwork room. See written records for DETAILED descriptions.

a) Folding steel ruler - Tray 11

b) Marking knife - Tray 11

c) Chisel - Tray 11

d) Chisel - Titan - Tray 11

e) Chisel - Titan - Tray 11

f) Chisel - Titan - Tray 11

g) Chisel - Titan - Tray 11

h) Chisel - Stamped EDWA - Tray 11

i) Chisel - Titan - Tray 11

j) Mertice chisel - Titan - Missing 2025

k) Marking knife - Tray 11

l) Folding stainless steel ruler - Tray 11

m) Tri-square - Tray 11

n) Screwdriver - Tray 11

o) Marking gauge - Tray 11

p) Tenon Saw - Tray 11

q) Wooden Mallet - Tray 11

r) Wooden Jack Flane - Tray 11

s) Wooden Jack Flane - Tray 11

t) Wooden Mallet - Tray 11

u) Tenon Saw - Tray 11

v) Marking gauge - Tray 11

w) Screwdriver - Tray 11

Historical information

The donor Mr Doug Love, who taught at Perth Modern School, retrieved the tool rack and two sets of tools when the equipment was replaced in 1995. Mr Love contacted Mr Arthur Mawby, a retired manual arts teacher at Perth Modern School, who examined the rack and tools and described their use.

Notes from interpretation panel

'This standard tool rack and tools issues by the education department were used at Perth Modern School from the 1930s until the late 1970s.

Four students worked with the tools from this rack - two complete sets were provided on each side.

Mr Arthur Mawby, who was a teacher of woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing at the school from 1961 to 1981, saw the number of manual arts teachers in the state rise from about forty at the commencement of his career, to over five hundred on his retirement. In the early twentieth century, the manual arts were known as ' hobby classes' and manual arts teacher were officially independent of the rest of the school.'

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-2001.22a-w

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