Ron Jones asked:
> Which reminds me of some locks where the rotating long bar
> (on the lower
> gate) was square section and there was a sort of bolted but
> movable "spanner" one pushed up at the end to lock the bar
> (no rachet) - can't remember where I came across them, are
> they still around?, it might have been the S.Oxford (above
> Banbury, as we turned round there). This would have been
> early 80's. It stuck in my memory as one of the "spanners"
> slipped off causing the windless to spin and making a nasty
> mess of a friends knuckles.
There used to be sliding spanner affairs on the Napton flight, but they
are long gone. I rather liked them - to lower the paddle you wound it
up a fraction, the spanner slid down, and you could then wind the paddle
down.
I think there is a photo of one in John Gagg's Canals in Camera.
David Mack
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