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Wire rope

Description

Special cross laid Kilindo non-rotating rock cutter rope, breaking load approximately 100 tons, one of a group of thirteen specimens of wire ropes, by Bruntons Wire Rope Works, Musselburgh

Museum reference

T.1932.72

Collection

Object name

Wire rope, Rock cutter rope

Production information

Bruntons Wire Rope Works
Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

Unknown

Materials

Physical description

Steel

Exhibitions

Making It (08 Jul 2016)
National Museum of Scotland

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
science and technology, making it

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