Miner's knee pads, late 1900s

These protective knee pads belonged to a worker at the Motherwell engineering firm Anderson, Boyes & Co. The company made mining machinery and from time to time its workers would need to visit mines to carry out repairs, often underground.

Museum reference:
NLC-2019-44
Associated with:
Anderson Boyes and Co Ltd · Motherwell, Scotland
Dimensions:
height: 160mm
width: 140mm
depth: 60mm
Materials:
rubber, foam, metal

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