An obscure special tool
There's a plate on it but it's not much of a clue It was some of my neighbours who coined the term Vintage Thing and this is the, er, Vintage Thing that prompted that remark. They were having a garage clear out and this emerged, metaphorically blinking in the sunlight. There's a tightening ratchet on the shaft on the right that pulls a shaped block up against two feet It's a special tool of some sort made by Churchill, serial number 18G227C. Nobody knows what it fits but somebody somewhere is probably, at this very moment, crying out for this Vintage Thing. To throw it away would seem to be a crime so I took pity on it and it has now come to live with me at the Cornish Repository for Unwanted Vintage Things until it can be re-homed.