Peter-Bullfinch Posted November 29, 2017 Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 Can anyone shed a little more light on this windlass I've been given? It has the lettering JHSGA and the number 1813. The size seems a normal one inch and one and a quarter inch. The handle is ten and a half inches and it's over fifteen inches long with a cranked bend. On the Rufford Branch some locks have windlasses this size mounted horizontally but attached permanently in situ. To use it on most locks these days I imagine your knuckles wouldnt last too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X Alan W Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 In the early 70's as the paddles got less maintaince & got harder to work someone bought in the double head & grafted in the longer shaft to ease working they were IIRC were sold at Autherly Jct & I think SUC at Norbury also sold them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 We are getting close to being able to start a Canal Windlass Collectors Club Richard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMModels Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Id say the JHSGA is a manufacturer mark, I sold a double header recently that had it cast into the head as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannette smith harrison Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 2 hours ago, AMModels said: Id say the JHSGA is a manufacturer mark, I sold a double header recently that had it cast into the head as well. I came across one in the back of my Dads shed it has JHS9 2 on one side & 16-87-1 on the other often wondered about the marks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray T Posted November 30, 2017 Report Share Posted November 30, 2017 Jeanette is it your initials dyslexicly? (if that is a word) One made by the Teddesley Boat Co. http://www.narrowboats.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeannette smith harrison Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 23 hours ago, Ray T said: Jeanette is it your initials dyslexicly? (if that is a word) One made by the Teddesley Boat Co. http://www.narrowboats.co.uk/ So it is Ray that I never noticed . Grandad & Dad had their names scratched deep into their windlass because they could not read or write if they needed to make their mark & so as not to be looked down on they would copy from the windlass something they almost always carried on them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted December 1, 2017 Report Share Posted December 1, 2017 1 hour ago, jeannette smith harrison said: So it is Ray that I never noticed . Grandad & Dad had their names scratched deep into their windlass because they could not read or write if they needed to make their mark & so as not to be looked down on they would copy from the windlass something they almost always carried on them Brilliant! That's the difference between educated and intelligent Richard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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