Description: | Collections include social, domestic, industrial and agricultural items with early telephone switchboards and exchanges including table and floor mounted wooden switchboards, two operator switchboards of the early Central Battery Signalling (CBS type 2) type from Malliag, Private Manual Branch Exchange (PMBX4), and an 80 position switchboard from Shoreditch, London. Transport items include
Wolverton and Stony Stratford Tram, Wolverton Works carriage section, Buckingham Co-Op Delivery lorry, Ackroyd Stuart engine, Austin Seven motor car, Gypsy caravan, Canal narrow boat, bicycles, motor cycles, horse drawn vehicles, hand carts and Sciences and Arts Institute items. There are also a collection of 40 mowing machines from the 1850s to the 1960s including Budding-Type Mower, Suttons Mower, Shanks Pony Mower, MP Mower, John Shaw Governor Motor Mower and a Greens Silens Messor. In total there are 500 agricultural, 10,000 archival, 500 costume and textile, 2,600 photographs, 300 science and industry, 30 transport and 10,000 social history items. |