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Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Rolling Parallel Rule
... Rolling Parallel Rule...Rolling Parallel rule...Rolling Parallel rule with rotating brass cylinders on each... Warrnambool great-ocean-road Rolling Parallel Rule Rolling Parallel ...Rolling Parallel rule with rotating brass cylinders on each end.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village, rolling parallel rule, rolling parallel, parallel rule -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Functional object - Ruler Rolling Parallel
... Ruler Rolling Parallel...rolling parallel ruler... Rolling Parallel Functional object Heavy oblong bevelled edged ...A good example of a finely machined instrument.Heavy oblong bevelled edged metal plate with two rollers and panel secured to the front. Two circular serrated screws at each end of plate. Reverse 8 brass screws 2 revertsPrecision Sydneywarrnambool, swinton, alexander swinton, rolling parallel ruler, rolling ruler. -
Bendigo Military Museum
Instrument - Ruler Parallel Rolling 15" with box, Department of Defence Australia, 1944
... Ruler Parallel Rolling 15" with box...Ruler Parallel Rolling 15" with box... goldfields Ruler Parallel Rolling 15" with box Instrument Ruler ...Used by Army Survey Units to quickly draw parallel lines for map production since 1944.A Brass 2.5" (6.5cm) wide Ruler 15" (38cm) long with brass rollers. Ruler is enclosed in a wooden protective boxRuler engraved with " A.L. FRANKLIN SYDNEY No 514 1944 D^D", Box labeled 407royal australian survey corps, rasvy, fortuna, army survey regiment, army svy regt, asr -
Whittlesea Historical Society Inc.
Lockwood's Brass Parallel Ruler, 19th Century
... Rectangular brass rolling parallel ruler with a length... brass rolling parallel ruler with a length of 18 inches ...William Henry Lockwood's surveying and drafting instruments. William Lockwood was born in 1832 in Glossop, Derbyshire and came to Victoria in 1853 on the 'Marco Polo'. He settled in Whittlesea with his wife Naomi in 1856. He was contracted to the Whittlesea Road Board and was the Engineer to the Shire for a period of 40 years. Some instruments have markings 'JL' on them which is presumed to be Joseph Lockwood, William Henry Lockwood's father. There are 10 items in this collection.19th century surveying and drafting instruments used by William Henry Lockwood, Engineer to the Shire of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia.Rectangular brass rolling parallel ruler with a length of 18 inches, the beveled edges are numbered by ones from 1 to 18, the rule is marked Kilpatrick & Co., LondonKilpatrick & Co., Londonwilliam henry lockwood, rule, brass rule, surveying instrument, drafting instrument, whittlesea road board