The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
948.2011.1(a-b)
Clog Twistlock karabiners
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Hermione Cooper
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A pair of aluminium alloy screwlock karabiners.
aluminium alloy
11(l) x 6(w) x 1(d) cms
2
"CLOG 3000 U.I.A.A. WALES"
silver, bronze
Clog
Wales
The word karabiner comes from the German karabinerhaken which literally means rifle hook and refers to the hook or clip that was used to attach the carrying sling to a rifle in days gone by. Karabiners for mountaineering started to appear in the 1920's and the early ones had a simple locking system which we now call a snaplink. Screwgates came later in a successful attempt to make the simple snaplink stronger and safer. A further refinement was to make the screwgate lock automatically when closing to make it even safer. Clog were one of - if not the first - manufacturers to produce a twistlock in the UK in the 1970's - a couple of well used ones which we have here in the collection. Quite where they came from we are not sure but it is good to have them.
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Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
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