Wheelwright's traveller (144)
Wheelwright's traveller
Name/Title
Wheelwright's traveller (144)Entry/Object ID
2025.1.1076Description
Iron instrument with a wheel and a handle. It can be pushed alongContext
"...the smith would hold [the traveler] out, waist - high, at right angles to himself, and run round wheel and tyre in turn. Wheel first, he wheel was laid up, face - downwards, where Will could walk around it, gravely chalking the "traveler" where it came round again to the starting point. This was probably done twice over, to make sure. Meanwhile the helpers looked on silently, too fascinated by the interest of the job to joke, though we liked joking. There were one or two questions I might have asked, had Will been less deaf. As it was I never quite knew how the circulation’s of the traveler were counted, if at all. Having gone all around the outer circumference of the felloes [wooden rim of the wheel], Will accordingly, lifting his leather apron, straddled over, long-legged, to the inner side of the tyre, and solemnly ran the traveler round that also, usually twice as before. " Excerpt from "The Wheelwright’s Shop" by George Sturt Cambridge University Press first published 1923.Cataloged By
Felix LamCategory
Tools