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Photos - Frames left and right: There is another interesting display at Sandon; this one is near the Visitor's Center and has an assortment of mining equipment similar to this Mobile Air Compressor manufactured by Chicago Pneumatic. Pneumatic tools or air tools are tools driven by gas, usually compressed air supplied by a gas compressor. Pneumatic tools can also be driven by compressed carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in small cylinders allowing for portability. Pneumatic tools are commonly cheaper and safer to run and maintain than their electric power tool counterparts, as well as having a higher power to weight ratio, allowing a smaller, lighter tool to accomplish the same task.

Center frame: Outside the Museum entrance is an old cream separator.

In 1855 the brothers James and John Taylor, emigrants from England, began making, in a small factory on Toronto's Palace Street, the first safes ever produced in Canada. From 1875 their factory ( J & J Taylor Safe Company or, later, The Toronto Safe Works) was located at the corner of what is now Front Street East and Frederick Streets and they owned a wharf, Taylor's Wharf, from which to ship their safes. Taylor's Wharf was located between Frederick and George Streets about where The Esplanade now runs. These buildings housed the factory until 1959 when Chubb-Mosler and Taylor Safes Ltd. was formed, and a new office and plant were built at Brampton. In 2009, to commemorate the Taylor Safe Company and their wharf the City of Toronto named the laneway which runs behind the building, Taylor's Wharf Lane.

Photos - I doubt that this poor old rusty safe would keep out curious rabbits let alone artifact collectors. This is a large safe made by J & J Taylor of Toronto Safeworks (Circa 1855).

Photos - Frames left and right: Ingersoll-Rand Mobile Air Compressor - AO 138 (left) and a model 600 Rotary Mobile Air Gyro Flow (right).

Center frame: A storage tank view of a Mobile Air Compressor manufactured by Chicago Pneumatic.

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