Surveyors Chain
Maker and role
W. F. Stanley and Company Limited, Maker
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Object detail
Accession number
1977.87.3
Description
Surveyor's chain with 100 jointed steel rods and twenty-two brass marker tags at regular intervals, brass handles at each end. Used to survey land, and to measure and mark out property boundaries. One chain is equivalent to twenty-two yards (approximately twenty metres), each link measuring just over 200mm.
Marks
STANLEY Maker's Mark
LONDON Maker's Mark
LONDON Maker's Mark
Media/Materials
Credit Line
W. F. Stanley and Company Limited. Surveyors Chain, 1977.87.3. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).
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