Oil Bottles

[nzl1a1collector]

Thanks for the images, can you take a photo of the spoons and see if there are any mold markings on the inside of the bottle and on the inside of the screw cap.

I'm almost temped to say someone tried to stamp the C/|\ marking.... I wonder how many bottles they broke in that process

[browningautorifle]

I wonder how many bottles they broke in that process

That would be a little electric branding iron to do that. Burn it in...

[Flying10uk]

The first 3 images are of the cap from the "C A" marked bottle and the last 3 images from the "Dominion Plastics" bottle.

I'm struggling to figure out what the digits on the "D.P." cap read because they are so small but it could be "A2Y" or "A27".

[Aussie48]

I think it might be A2Y but my eyes aren't as young as they used to be

I have a LB No 4 that came with an oil bottle will dig it out and find what markings are on it.
Dick

[nzl1a1collector]

Thanks for the photos

Yep the 'P' mold marking. I haven't seen the A mold marking before..... looks like A29 interesting.

If you look into the very bottom of the bottle you will find a mold marking there eg. P18

[CINDERS]

nzl1a1collector in #1 mentions formaldehyde, as a farmhand had some very nice times (Not) mixing that stuff decanted neat out of a 200L drum into a 5 liter bucket to mix into a trough for the dairy cattle to walk through to stop the chance of foot rot after milking into their allotted pens as they were fully housed like the European cattle are over their winter.

I can attest that cattle crap allot when you had 30 cattle housed in individual pens after a night in there its like just mountains of the stuff.
After milking's the drill was 2 blokes put them away 1 bloke on the swing gate calls the number, 2nd bloke in the shed (usually me) goes to that pen that corresponds to the number un-clips the chain cow is let in goes into her pen you go beside her to clip up her chain around her neck, the fun starts if they miss their pen in a small raceway with nowhere to go cows do not have a good reverse, got punched into the side of the shed a few times but patience helps as they get distressed pretty quickly.
But that formaldehyde was bad we had no protective equipment just the usual farmers stuff shorts, boots, hat & T-shirt the farm was owned by the Western Australian Government also we used to spray the Apple of Sodom a noxious weed cattle will not eat with 24D & 245T the latter I need not elaborate on you may have experienced it in the 60's-70's again all I had was a mask no other protection just farm attire I was on the back of that tanker sprayer for weeks with a hand held sprayer.

[Paul S.]

Do not some forms of Bakelite contain Asbestos fibres? A quick internet search seemed to suggests that some do and some may not? Sorry to be a kill-joy.

Mate, most of us Aussies over 40 have lived in fibro (asbestos cement sheeting) houses or huts at one time or another. My guess is that between the fibro, the mercury we handled in school science classes back in the 1950s, the lead base paints from the day, all the solvents we handled before they 'became' toxic/carcinogenic substances, and the Agent Orange that was dumped on us in Vietnam my generation has been on borrowed time for decades. Personally, I'm planning to live well passed the 100 mark.

[Peter Laidler]

Add to that the huge Trichlorethylene and Carbon tetrachloride vapour baths big enough to take a Centurion tank engine and a Bedford truck chassis depth ways while you leaned over spraying CTC etc over the bits with the hose. I'm not sure that I remember any of us donning a mask or gloves while we did. Anyone else remember that notorious 'cotton waste' we all used to use as hand wipes and cleaning rags. Usually full of old swarf and gungy oil.

[Flying10uk]

Was it not the case that individuals could not take legal action against the MOD, in the past, but the law was changed to enable people to do so now? If this is correct I would imagine that the MOD is much more safety conscious or, if it is not, is probably paying out vast sums of cash each year in compensation. When I started work everyone laughed at me* for wearing eye protection when operating lathes, mills and grinders, Now everyone has to wear eye protection and anyone caught not doing so faces disciplinary action.

*Anyone who has experienced hot swarf in their eye or seen a large grinding wheel fracture will understand the importance of eye protection.

[Peter Laidler]

Crown Immunity........ Here endeth the lesson