another mystery item

[Bee]

If it is a railway item it could be part of the coupling mechanism between wagons, the weight thingy on a turnbuckle thingy that you wind in to shorten the chain, as you can see I've no idea what its called.

[erivers]

If it is a railway item it could be part of the coupling mechanism between wagons, the weight thingy on a turnbuckle thingy that you wind in to shorten the chain, as you can see I've no idea what its called.

 

FWIW I reckon that's the best suggestion yet!

[Ray T]

Perhaps it was very cold when it was lost and fell off one of these?

 

Edited September 22, 2016 by Ray T

[magnetman]

Thanks for the pics erivers - looks a good match and it does say LYR on it which is the initials of a railway company

 

Ray T - I was up at 1 this morning looking up nautical terminology and came across the freezing the balls off a brass monkey expression. Apparently the monkey was a brass tray with a pyramid of cannonballs on it. When it got very cold the tray contracted enough to spill the cannon balls. Hence the expression - according to website I found.

 

More here

 

http://www.multimodal.org.uk/news/naval-jargon

Edited September 22, 2016 by magnetman

[erivers]

Thanks for the pics erivers - looks a good match and it does say LYR on it which is the initials of a railway company

 

 

 

Pictures from the LYR Society website: http://www.lyrs.org.uk/Wagons

might just about clinch it, I think.

 

Well done Bee (and thanks magnetman for the puzzle!)

[magnetman]

Thank you I'll definitely go for that.

 

Next part of the puzzle what was it doing in the Thames in East London

Edited September 22, 2016 by magnetman

[Horace42]

Sacrificial Aanode.

[Dalslandia]

Looks like the other end look like a straight crow bar, is it sharpend ?

[magnetman]

Not sharpened. It has a sort of "shackle' type of shape and remains of a securing pin so whatever it was fixed to it was meant to stay on there..

 

I think its probably the railway wagon item