Please, help with the identification of these shipwreck artifacts

[Bobadilla]

Hello,

My dear TH fellows, could you give me some orientation what could be these two brass plates found on the shipwreck? Thanks in advance for any opinion.

Regards,
Lobo

 

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[ARC]

First one might be a "seat number plate"... It looks like a room key... but the number is too high. ?

Second item looks like some sort of I.D. plate from machine of some sort... or maybe steam boiler plate... or could be a hull plate. ?

PS> You should take a crayon and paper ... or pencil... and lightly do a "rubbing" ...
This should bring out the text on paper.

 

[villagenut]

The larger plate says "McCord Radiator Mfg. Lubricator Div.Detroit" Patent dates are 1905, 1906 and 1910.

McCord was actually a Mr. A.C. McCord who operated a steel mfg Company at the turn of the century and about 1909 became a specialist in radiators and lubricators, dealing directly with Ford. The patent dates obviously show that he used patents from one aspect of his business into his next as life and modern technology progressed. As ARRC said , a nameplate of sorts, but surely coming off of one of his lubricators, since this plate tells us "lubricator div". In an Ad from 1934 (shown here) he is still in business there in Detroit.



https://books.google.com/books?id=k...+Lubricant+division+Detroit&source=bl&ots=AKR

 

[HenryWaltonJonesJr]

The 2nd item shows dates with years 05, 06 and 10. Mc Corp Radiator Co Lubricator ...^^what he said ^^

 

[Whitt]

The Vickers K was a development of the Vickers-Berthier (VB) light machine gun, adopted in 1932 by the Indian Army.[1] The VB, like the Bren light machine gun, used a tilting locking breechblock. However, unlike the Bren, the VB locked its breech only at the last moment of forward travel and this enabled the development of the Vickers K also known as the "Vickers Gas Operated" (VGO) or "Vickers GO" .[1] With lighter moving parts and the VB locking design, the Vickers K had an adjustable rate of fire between 950 and 1,200 rounds per minute; faster than the German MG34.[1] The weapon was adopted for British service as the VGO. It was test-flown with a large 300-round drum, and beat the .303 Browning in reliability. However, the wide drum would have caused problems to accommodate, since it would have interfered with wing structures. When the belt-fed Browning Mark II was selected as the standard machine-gun armament for RAF aircraft, the VGO became redundant for the RAF. It continued to be used by the Fleet Air Arm until 1945.

 

[Whitt]

Not sure, but could it be a serial no. off a machine gun?

 

[Salvor6]

Not sure, but could it be a serial no. off a machine gun?

Firearms never have a separate plate with the serial number. The serial numbers are always engraved on the receiver.

 

[Whitt]

Good point

 

[Bobadilla]

Dear TH Forum friends,
Thank you VERY MUCH to all of you, but especially to "Whitt" and to "Villagenut" for your professional help. Now it is almost clear that the wreck was American ship sunken probably sometimes during the WW II.

Best regards,
Lobo

 

[Joeyboots]

Vigo–Peinador Airport Spain Locker tag? I agree with Salvor6. I have never seen a serial number tag on weapons. Always engraved on a major component like the receiver. They probably dont have lockers anymore terrorism and all of that crap so its old if that what it is.