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MEMORABILIA: The business end of a Pusser's scrubber, stamped '42'. Photo Graeme Andrews.
4243. We're actually not sure if '42' is the year or a Stores number, but Graeme Andrews thinks his Pusser's scrubber could be WWII issue. Beautifully made and presented, Graeme has now rescued the old brush from a garage shelf and posed it here on his study desk, getting more sentinmental and enthusiastic about it by the minute. In it's time, and in his hands, Graeme says, this humble brush helped keep and the aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II], HMAS VOYAGER [II], HMAS QUICKMATCH and HMAS SUPPLY in working order.
They don't make brushes, and they don't make sailors like that now. Like holystoning the teak decks of cruisers [that is, using a soft and brittle sandstone to scour and whiten the teak decks] this feels like another precious skill gone by the wayside.
Photo: Graeme Andrews, RAN 1955-1968, RANR 1980.
MEMORABILIA: The business end of a Pusser's scrubber, stamped '42'. Photo Graeme Andrews.
4243. We're actually not sure if '42' is the year or a Stores number, but Graeme Andrews thinks his Pusser's scrubber could be WWII issue. Beautifully made and presented, Graeme has now rescued the old brush from a garage shelf and posed it here on his study desk, getting more sentinmental and enthusiastic about it by the minute. In it's time, and in his hands, Graeme says, this humble brush helped keep and the aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II], HMAS VOYAGER [II], HMAS QUICKMATCH and HMAS SUPPLY in working order.
They don't make brushes, and they don't make sailors like that now. Like holystoning the teak decks of cruisers [that is, using a soft and brittle sandstone to scour and whiten the teak decks] this feels like another precious skill gone by the wayside.
Photo: Graeme Andrews, RAN 1955-1968, RANR 1980.