General Information

Serial #

3815

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Wooden case covered with leather/ Glass balance vials, telescope lenses and compass face/ Brass base, telescope, upper plate, and levelling screws & standards clamps/ Small aluminium case/Plastic vernier plates.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

36.9 cm

Width

18.0 cm

Height

18.8 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Exploration and Survey

Category

Measurement-angles

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Watts

Country

England

State/Province

Unknown

City

London

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Unknown

Function

Transits fitted with both horizontal circle and vertical circle or arc may be used to measure both horizontal and vertical angles.

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'E.R. WATTS & SON./LONDON, ENG./OTTAWA-WINNIPEG/No 3815' appears on compass face/several scales on rules appears on instrument/Label inside case bears following info.: 'CAUTION'./When levelling In-/strument, be careful/not to stra in thefour/levelling screws.'/ Mfr's label on inside of case lid bears following information: ‘Instrument No. 3815 Constant = 8.376 inches/ = 0.69875/ E.R. WATTS & SON, Surveyors' and Architects' Instruments & Materials./ Head Office and Works: –/ 123, Camberwell Rd., London, S.E., England./ Ottawa./ 200, Wellington St./ Winnipeg./ 408, Portage Avenue./ All kinds of Surveying Instruments (by any maker) can/ be repaired at our Winnipeg Store by experienced/ workmen trained at our London Works.'/ Label on lid bears following info.: ‘FITTING/ FOR/ TELESCOPE/ CAP'./ Label on small rectangular box inside case bears following info.: ‘SPARE/ BUBBLES'./ Small round disk inset in top right edge of box (when open) bears following info.: ‘OBJECT/ GLASS'/ Following info. incised on back: ‘E.R. WATTS & SON/ LONDON'/ ‘73 ' printed in black ink on case top./ ‘E.R. WATTS & SON/ LONDON ENG./ OTTAWA & WINNIPEG' stamped into leather cover of lid./ Masking tape label on case top bears following info.: ‘TRANSIT #2/ S/N 3815/ See TRIPOD #2/ **'/ ‘TRANSIT/ E.R. WATTS/ No. 3815' handwritten on tag affixed to case. ‘73' on reverse./ ‘TRANSIT' handwritten in blue ink on right side panel of case top./ Remains of 3 Canadian National Express labels also present on exterior of case.

Missing

One glass plate over vernier damaged. Plumb bob missing.

Finish

Telescope, upper plate, standards, inner spindle painted black.

Decoration

None