Art & Inspiration can you I.D. this part?

Purely as a side distraction, there is only one place in Wisconsin where this picture could have been shot, and if you know it, what was it used on or for, now ruminate on that one as well !

 

I won’t sleep till morning!

 

I think it has to do with pressing on the early hard rubber tires on early wooden spoke wheels, like you, this will bug me all night.

 

Trash can lid?

 

Yes, custom trash can lids at the circus world museum in Baraboo Wisconsin, winner, winner!

 

I didn't see the file name till after replying.

 

In Canada we used to have public garbage cans that looked like this in the 50 s and 60s.

 

˙uʍop-ǝpısdn s,ʇI

 

OK, I will play again. Fair warning, this isn't a part used in the automotive world. The only hint you get is, it was an integral part of daily retail operations in a variety of big stores. Only us geezers will have ever seen these in operation.

 

I internetted it.

 

Is that your answer " you looked it up on the web " ? It has a very precise function.

 

I didn't want to spoil the fun.

 

Grinning to myself here, hey we have nothing else to do, go ahead, spill the beans, lets see if you got it right!

 

Is the mirrored part a part of the t _ _ _ _ e_ ?

 

This is great fun, I will let you try to figure out if it is part of it or if its not part of it.

 

Ticker tape.

 

It looks like it dispenses something ... string like

 

Thank you for playing, but that is a wrong guess, ticker tape machines had the ability to print, this machine doesn't have that capability. Guess again.

 

Thanks for playing, another wrong guess, this unit doesnt dispense any string, guess again. How ever to keep you interested, it does " Transport something " in two directions.

 

The trolley that pulled the wire for ticker tape to work.

 

Nope, this unit has nothing to do with ticker tape machines at all. It will surprise you to know what it is when you find out, as stated, only us geezers 67 years of age and older will have ever seen these in operation back in the day. Guess again.

 

Ok, before vacuum tubes?

 

One of them money carrying dohickeys. They went on wires, before we had the series of tubes.

 

Damn you tricky geezers!

 

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner. The lamson trolley was used in the time period where none of the cashiers in the bigger department stores could be trusted to make change accurately. The customer would give the cashier a 20.00 bill, and along with a sales receipt, the clip on the bottom held the sales slip, an inertia reel kicker would shoot the trolley up on the wire that was stretched from the cashiers stand, up to a window through a wall upstairs where a person would take the money, and put the change in the wooden cup and then a ratchet release would let the trolley free wheel via gravity gradient and it would go back to the sales person and then the change would come out of the wooden cup! And yes, this was before the LAMSON vacuum tube transfer system. The mirrored part has nothing to do with the trolley, it was just to see if I could fool you. Bravo, good guess indeed !

 

Hey now! I am a pre-geezer!

 

Hey! someone threw out a perfectly good bear!

 

I’m a pre geezer too ! But to me a geezer is your elder and elders should be respected.

 

All of you have a great safe and healthy Friday evening, this older geezer is going to go generate a smile that isn't based upon alcohol, or is that a paper cocktail ? Anyway, it takes 3 hands to accomplish this. Thanks for playing!

 

There was a store in my home town that had one them trolleys.
It went from the upstairs office down to the check out counter at the front of the store.
It was cool...you would here a ding as the person released the ratchet lever then a click and then a high pitch zing as it zipped down the wire caring notes ,receipts or money down to the front desk/counter..
And I'm 58 and I remember it.

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