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Overview

A hand operated metal skip, with a "v" shaped bucket mounted on a metal base with four wheels, which run along rails. There are four pins on either end of the bucket, the two lower pins rest in grooves while being loaded. The two upper pins rest in grooves along side of the other two, when being tipped either way

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Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2019.43

Width

97 cm

Height or length

129 cm

Themes

Keywords

Quarry Armadale Brickworks

Statement of significance

Provenance: Used for transporting brick making materials to different areas.
Historic:Sample of equipment used before mechanisation changed the whole system.

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

City of Armadale - History House

City of Armadale - History House

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