Lightweight Aircrew Boot, Khaki - Performance Characteristics: * Based on boot originally designed for Aircrew operating in hot/dry or hot/wet climatic regions * Ankle length boot assists to reduce heat load in hot climates * Proven in military service over many years * Minimal lining to maximise rate of transmission of water vapour and rate of drying-out of boot should water get over the top in a survival situation * Outer leather has exceptional level of permeability to water vapour to assist disposal of foot moisture,keep hose dry and foot comfortable * Capacity of leather insole for absorption of foot moisture also assists to keep hose dry and foot comfortable * Shallow bottom tread pattern to reduce likelihood of pick-up of debris * A choice of two bottom tread patterns
50: Cylender arm sewing machine. Singer 17-16 (on bench with motor and Alex needle light) serial ref. AF004805. 50A same without light. Serial ref AD338826. 51 Post sewing machine Pfaff 193-4B L (on bench with motor needle and light).
32 Eyeletter BUSM Epoch, serial no 1826
52 Tipping / folding machine - BUSMC (on bench with 3 phase motor)
151 Free standing pedal operatied eyelet clenching machine (2). The box behind says something like eyelet 8.5m plate. The thing in the box on the right could be a glue pot.
13 Folding / Beading machine BUSM ref E3164. 20A off the picture is a Flat Sewing Machine - Sinver 21W 162 Serrial ref W 133199 on bench with Alex needle light and 3-phase motor
53 Post Sewing machine - Singer 138G 101, Serial ref PE 40797 (on bench with 3-phase motor). Behind is one of about 4 hand-presses belongong to the MOD for pressing ear-muff shapes in flying helmets. Left: unusually thick cutting knives.
31: Eyeletter - BUSM Model C (on bench with "Alex" needle light and 3-phase motor). Probably only suitable for parts.
Tall chairs, receipts and expenses accounts, thickness gage
54 Button holing machine - Janome. Looks like a microwave underneath - probably a light box for activating contact glue
55 Polyethylene bag welding machine: "packer impulse" sealer. The cage has another machine in it.
There are dozens of fibreboard work boxes in the corridor of which one has boots in it- the others are clean and empty. This half sized one has a bunch of laboratory stands.
145 9 Drawer unit of 7" x 5" x 19" drawers full of metal buckles
161 Grindstone for bench mounting
? Ear muff press knives? - part of the flying helmet set-up
"Saran" Ventile insock set-up: Forthergill Engineering Fabrics Ltd 74m of net1.22m wide
4 "Crown" bandknife splitting machine
For sale: part of Saran ventile insock set-up: 57 HR welding machine; high frequency generator, Cox & Wright; 58 HR welding machine: Press / High Frequency head, Cox & Wright; 59 Gantries for material rolls; 60 Dull size range (2-13, 2 Widths/length size) of HF dies. These are usually used for making PVC folders. Cox and Wright no longer exist but their old machines and successors cost in the low thousands. Pressure looks like a strength for this one. The owner hopes to get the lift cable strengthened to deliver the machine at street level - it's now on the first floor without any bidders.
60: full size range from 2-13 in two widths = 24 pairs. With pressure and radio waves these heat and weld whatever is underneath. With skill they separate it from what's next.
vamp press knives - not mentioned in the sale list
7 cutting knife racks x 4. Made of dexion, wood chocks & plywood shelves. The large number of sizes made for RAF boots leads to the large number of knives. Work in progress is for BAE system's order - they ordered separately from the ministry of defence but the 50 pair minimum orders were not in proportion to 5 staff and a landlord. Apart from business, this shows what can be done with the enterprise of British United Shoe Machinary Ltd and Dexion, both companies which were taken over by Apax Partners - Apax.com - before complaints from former employees that the company pension funds were not paying as expected by the non-independent independent company trustees. If anyone knows of a company with its own pension scheme, please contact Apax partners.
1. Clicking Press - Atom SE20; 2 Clicking Press - SVIT 06103 P4 (probably only suitable for parts); 3. Cutting blocks / boards; 3 "Crown" bandknife splitting machine - E Mills and Co; 5. Blade blocking machine - Cox and Wright; 6: leather horses x 4, 7 Cutting Knife racks x 4; 8 Pattern drawers x 2. Prison outside the window.
25 Hand operated backseam rubbing down "machine"
42 Tipping / folding machine B&J Wright and sons (on bench with single phase motor)
5 Blade blocking machine - Cox and Wright
58 "Saran" Ventile insock set-up: HR welding machine - Press / High frequency head. Cox & Wright
33 Bench mounted Black & Decker drill with specially-made clamp for drilling-out eyelets without tearing the material round them
66 CTTG pull toe laster - International Shoe Machine Corp. Lasting machine - stretches a sewn-together upper over the shape of the last and staples it to a bit of board.
75 Direct Vulcanising machine CIC Ralphs 400 Mk 6A. To the right of the three machines is an engine to compress hydraulic fluid. The hood at the top is linked to an extractor fan. On the front is a maintenance log. Behind the machine is the MOD's set of steel feet - like the three clamped to the front of the machines now - on which different sized boots can cool. The set cost about a quarter of a million.
75 Direct Vulcanising machine CIC Ralphs 400 Mk 6A. To the right of the three machines is an engine to compress hydraulic fluid. The hood at the top is linked to an extractor fan. On the front is a maintenance log. Behind is a huge collection of metal feet for cooling hot boots on. There are three of these machines. The process takes about ten minutes per pair per machine maybe. Factory can make up to 200 pairs a week = 5 pairs an hour.
Direct Vulcanising machine fitted with size 7 moulds stamped "ministry of aviation". The badge probably says CIC Ralphs.
Snooker top floor; used office furniture, ground floor. Building bought from Phipps Brewery by Brevitt Shoe Manufacturers Limited in 1958. Haynes and Cann banner above the first window on the ground floor.
flying helmet in three sizes
Same model of vulcanising press at Totectors, 2003. The set-up was "10 - CIC RALPHS TYPE 400 MARK 6 TWIN STATION HYDRAULIC VULCANISING PRESSES, CENTRALISED HYDRAULIC POWER RIG, DOSING SYSTEM AND EXTRACTION"
Jet press 00548-TOCCO press stud socket, quantity 700, 151 next to Free standing pedal operatied eyelet clenching machine
typical fasteners from jetpac.com
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