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Description: | The collection of iron founding equipment includes 300 foundry patterns and moulder's tools. There is a good range of locally-made cast iron products, including items from Cannon's of Bilston, and the Kenrick loan collection.
There is a large collection of blacksmith's tools and equipment, including a Goliath hammer, an oliver hammer, and the entire contents and actual building of a ten hearth oliver shop from Blackheath
Chainmaking equipment has been collected from several local sources, and includes a backyard chainshop and women's chainmaking tools.
The museum has good collections in a variety of Black Country metalworking trades, including screw making, edge tool making and sheet metalworking.
Large scale manufacturing industries represented in the collections include coal mining, chemical engineering and construction.
The engineering collection includes steam engines, pumps, electrical engineering and engineering models.
Other trades covered in the collections include cooperage, woodworking, plumbing, leather working and shoe repair.
Collections relating to food production include a slaughterhouse, a bakery and sweet making equipment.
The collections relating to Black Country working life are the most extensive in the museum. They include material from an extensive range of metalworking trades and industries, mining, chemical engineering, construction, wood and leather working collections, and slaughterhouse, bakery and sweetmaking equipment. | Subjects: | Food processing Chemicals Industry & commerce Iron & steel manufacture Construction Science & Industry Wood Mechanical engineering Manufacturing Coal mining Metal working Electrical engineering Western European | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Tipton Road
Dudley,
DY1 4SQ | FAX: | 0121 557 4242 | Telephone: | 0121 557 9643 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:436 | Go to resource |
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