Level - Woodworking - Museum of Transport and Technology, New Zealand

Object detail

Accession number

F2464.2005

Description

Wooden body with a metal angled corner at each end of the lower corners of the main body. There is a glass spirit level inset into the top of the body approximately 75 mm long and 7 mm wide with a floating bubble within. This is covered by a removable steel plate centre-section cut away to view the bubble. One end of the body has an aperture 35 mm in diameter holding a glass spirit level approximately 30 mm in length. This is mounted through a top plate screwed in above the aperture. At the other end there is a hole drilled right through 125 mm from the end.

Marks

RABONE & SONS / BIRMINGHAM / MADE IN ENGLAND Impressed

Media/Materials

Organic/Vegetal/Wood
Processed Material/Metal/Alloy/Copper Alloy/Brass
Processed Material/Glass

Credit Line

Level - Woodworking, F2464.2005. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Level, Carpenter's Level, Spirit Tools & Equipment for Materials Woodworking T&E

Collection type

Tools Industrial Heritage Technology

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Level - Woodworking