Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
(Post 5652520)
Air raid siren? To let people know the postal rates are going up.
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Originally Posted by luce321
(Post 5652530)
May be an earlier computer.
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Hee heee ... my Engineer husband looked at for a long time, remarked on the size, shape, amount of manual power that needs to be exerted based on her position, etc etc etc ... then concluded that .......
...... "dunno, but it's not a pencil sharpener". |
Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
(Post 5652556)
Hee heee ... my Engineer husband looked at for a long time, remarked on the size, shape, amount of manual power that needs to be exerted based on her position, etc etc etc ... then concluded that .......
...... "dunno, but it's not a pencil sharpener". |
It tickles my memory.....I will probably dream about it tonight!!
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Is it a dumb waiter lift for bringing mail from one floor to another?
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Hmmm, it could be moving files. i used to work where they had some tall "walls" of files and you had to crank them to move each section. heaven forbid someone start cranking while you were in there looking!!
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Was she cranking out stamps?
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Looks like a Compactus, as the others said a form of filing system. The photo seems to show handles poking out sideways....so maybe they are safety deposit boxes in movable banks. Cool photo.
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Thanks for all the great ideas, I will forward them to her. The filing system certainly sounds like a possibility; or the safety deposit boxes in moveable banks.
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