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Vaccar Ltd. (Manufacturer)

1925 Vaccar milking machine from Fockbury Farm in Dodford, Worcestershire.
This 1925 Vaccar milking machine came from Fockbury Farm in Dodford, Worcestershire. It consists of a vessel divided by a central partition, with twin outlets and a curved handle of carrying. It has two sets of ?clusters? and numerous pieces of rubber tubing. 21 pieces of rubber tubing were found in a very deteriorated state inside the milking machine and were subsequently disposed of.

Letter, Mr A. L. Foster to Andrew Jewell, 26 July 1958 – ‘It was really a wonderful machine & never had any trouble with it, a very good advt. for Vaccar. I expect you know that the Vaccar Machine was originally the Lawrence Kennedy Machine.’, MERL Miscellaneous note, Fred van der Geer, MERL Conservator, March 2010 – ‘These rubber tubes [21 tubes of various sizes] were found inside the Milking Machine with Accession Number 58/63. Due to the inherent instability of the material and the accumulation of the deterioration process, whilst stored in the enclosed conditions of the milking machine vessel, the rubber had perished to a spectacular result (dried out and melted). The decision was made to record the items and dispose of them.’

1925 - 1925

National Agricultural Advisory Service (Agent)
Leslie, Stuart (Agent)