The Archive team have another photograph we’d like your help to identify. It was taken by commercial photographic company Illustrations Limited in 1932 and simply has “R.E. Arnold” written on it.
A check of the 1932 Post Office directory for Western Australia shows that R.E. Arnold was a plumber, but what was this used for? It looks like a wooden barrel or tank with metal coils and a plug or small handle at the end.
The photograph is available for viewing on our online catalogue using call no. 101836PD.
8 June, 2009 at 4:01 pm
part of a still used to chill and then collect alcohol vapour?
10 June, 2009 at 10:19 am
Could be a butter churn – Arnold made lots of dairy stuff
15 June, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Thank you for your suggestions which are good ideas to follow up.
23 June, 2009 at 11:36 am
Is it a very small bike rack for lepricorns bikes?
28 June, 2009 at 4:56 pm
similar to Dave, june 09….appears to be (copper) pipes within a watertight wooden ark or drum…drum would have ice to cool a product passing thru the pipe…similar to cooling beer from a keg today.
7 July, 2009 at 7:08 pm
its a rotor mill