Object number
60/182
Description
A drag shoe was placed under a wagon wheel to act as a brake by causing the wheel to skid. It came from Begbroke Farm in Begbroke, Oxfordshire.
This is a metal drag shoe, a wagon accessory. It was placed under a wagon wheel to act as a brake by causing the wheel to skid. The metal shoe also took the wear and tear of the braking, rather than the wheel tyre. This drag shoe was is marked '2 1/2 Carron'. It originally came from Begbroke Farm in Begbroke, Oxfordshire.
Archival history
The Accession Files and MERL 'Associated information' forms for objects 60/180-60/206 give no information about the objects other than that they came from Begbroke Farm in Begbroke, Oxfordshire, and were transferred to MERL by the Department of Agriculture at the University of Oxford.
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_4740.tif - High resolution image
