Many of these instruments are still in occasional use in my workshop, where I build model steam engines, whilst others are purely part of my collection. Mostly they date from the first half of the twentieth century. Cheap digital calipers have even virtually made many of them obsolete in model engineering workshops now. The photographs show them in used condition, rust and all, which is how they were when I inherited or obtained them. There are also rules and gauges from other trades that I have collected.
These instruments and tools are now shown in four separate pages by type.
Please click on the links below?
Please click on the links below?
| Early Sets |
| Traditional Sets |
| Later Sets |
| Major Makers |
| Instruments |
| Miscellanea |
| W F Stanley |
| A G Thornton |
| W H Harling |
| Elliott Bros |
| J Halden |
| Riefler |
| E O Richter |
| Kern, Aarau |
| Keuffel & Esser |
| Compasses |
| Pocket compasses |
| Beam compasses |
| Dividers |
| Proportional dividers |
| Pens |
| Pencils |
| Rules |
| Protractors |
| Squares |
| Parallels |
| Pantographs |
| Sectors |
| Planimeters |
| Map Measurers |
| Miscellaneous |
| Materials Used |
| Who made them |
| Who made these |
| Addiator |
| Addimult |
| Other German |
| USA |
| Miscellaneous |
| Microscopes |
| Barometers |
| Hydrometers & Scales |
| Pedometers |
| Surveying Instruments |
| Other instruments |
| Workshop Measuring Tools |
| Catalogues & Brochures |
| Micrometers & Verniers |
| Engineering rules and gauges |
| Wood rules & calipers |
| Dial gauges & miscellaneous |