Gamage Laundry Mangle
The mangle is fixed to a cast iron frame sitting on four non-swivelling 60mm metal wheels. A connecting flat wooden board runs between the top roller adjustable turn screws.
The mangle can be rotated from the vertical position to the horizontal position by releasing a locking lever, then pushing over.
Gamage’s was a department store in Holborn, Central London. It operated from about 1878 until its closure in 1972. Gamage’s had a large mail-order business and issued a wide range of catalogues, for example in 1911 the catalogue numbered 900 pages.
From the late 1800s department stores did not manufacture all that they sold. This Gamage branded mangle would have been manufactured by others and sold using a strategy of ‘own label’ marketing.
A floor standing laundry mangle whose primary purpose was to press household linen and clothing smooth. It has two white rubber rollers which are rotated via a geared crank handle. The top roller exerts pressure via two spring-loaded adjustable turn screws at either end of the roller.
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Gamagecast
Greater London
United Kingdom
Busselton Historical Society
Busselton Historical Society
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