MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Marilyn]

No, sorry Tizzy

[Stanley]

Floor cleaner?

[Tizer]

Chocolate-coated licorice torpedos?

[chinatyke]

Tupperware?

[Marilyn]

None of the above. A kitchen product but not food. Comes in a cardboard container.

[chinatyke]

The first thing to cross my mind was Vim but I'm pretty sure that has been around forever. So what came out in 1966? Ajax pan scrubbers? I think the wording "still going strong" must be a clue. AHHH! Brainwave! Kitchen cling film advertised by Katie Whoever of Oxo fame when she demonstrated turning a jug of water sealed with clingfilm over her head.

[Marilyn]

Correct China. Twas Glad Wrap...

[chinatyke]

Well I never! I nearly hedged my bets and said aluminium foil. Another brainwave, just remembered the name, wasn't it Katie Boyle who advertised it or something similar? Hard to believe it has only been around 50 years. Weren't things primitive back in the fifties and sixties?

[Stanley]

I was at the cutting edge, We had a gas fridge!!

[Stanley]

Try this one.....

[Stanley]

This one is going nowhere! I'd better put you out of your misery.



They are the charts used with the Servis Recorder.
Next one?

[chinatyke]

I guessed what it was when you put the photograph of the Servis Recorder in 'The Flatley Dryer' thread yesterday but I've never seen one.

[Stanley]

It had been annoying me China. I just couldn't remember the name!
Try this one....

[PanBiker]

Brick making.

[Tizer]

Liquid metal brought from the smelter on the railway wagons and poured into moulds on the wheel. By the time the wheel has turned, the metal has cooled to a solid ingot and is turned out into the barrows. Was it lead?

[PanBiker]

I didn't look close enough, Doh!

[Stanley]

You've got the process right but not the material.....

[chinatyke]

Pig iron?

[Julie in Norfolk]

Is it lime making?

[Stanley]

China is so close, red hot in fact. Just go one step further!

[chinatyke]

One step further? Cast iron? That's how it got its name I guess.

[Stanley]

You are so close China. Think of the by-product of smelting iron ore.....

[chinatyke]

Slag? They're making slags? Sorry, couldn't resist that one.

Do they use slag for refractory bricks? If so, Ian deserves the credit because he said brick making for the first answer.

[Tizer]

Many of the older houses in Hayle, Cornwall, are built with dressed blocks of slag from the copper smelters.

[Stanley]

Sorry, I missed the response. Yes, they are making large blocks of solidified slag for use in buildings. I have only ever seen them in external structures and they were virtually indestructible, just like dirty glass. The ones I have seen are purple.