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THE HACKMAN COLLECTION

Bob Andrews, Mikael Barnard and I visited Willem Hackman to view and photograph his collection of Babies. Most of the following pictures are Mikael's,

tho' I have photo-shopped them.

We start with that rarest of beasts, the Pathé Baby Printer. It has something of an air of being cobbled together - note two separate cylindrical resistances

in the base - but, on the other hand, the base itself seems pukka. I wonder if one could make one from old Baby bits........

We now move on to Dynamo models, starting with a very rare version mounted directly on a special base, rather than added on later. The size of the bracing

for the rear-mounted model give some idea of the level of cranking effort needed to get a high enough speed for power generation - it must have needed a

lot of holding down. Maybe the side-mounted version was more stable.

The rest of the projectors are in a series of images in largely random order and with repetitions, I suspect - I don't know enough to sort them all out

and label them. Shall have to go to the horse's mouth I suppose.

This last section I do know a bit about. The first one is just a part of a continuous loop mechanism. Second is a type or resistance I have

never seen before. The Pathex material is, of course, very rare.

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