New member - Veritys Orbit Traversing Fan (ceiling)

[Andy Cornish]

Hi everyone,

It's great to be joining this illustrious group. I'm based in Hong Kong and bought my first antique fan two years ago. I've restored a few learning pretty much everything from the AFCA forum, AFCA facebook page and others, collected some others and have a keen interest in saving 220V fans originally sold here up until the 30s.

I also have a particular passion for Veritys and picked up this unusual "Orbit Traversing Fan Co" fan in Singapore recently. The circular bracket and shape of the gearbox are not like any I've seen before and Nicholas Denney was astute enough to recognise it as originally ceiling mounted. Has anyone seen a complete one before and can tell me what the missing pieces should look like? Blades are a little less than 12 inch, it seems earlier that the 16 inch model in this Youtube video

Thanks, Andy

PS Is Peter Moulds still active?

 

[Louis Luu]

I forgot who...I'll check my email.  There is a member who lives in Canada who has one from foggy memory.

[Louis Luu]

Contact Robert Winter.  Here is the fan in action....download and open with vlc.

 

 

[Louis Luu]

[Andy Cornish]

Hi Louis. Wow, that's amazing, thanks for sharing (and thanks Robert Winter). It isn't quite the same with the squarer motor and different gearbox shape but the beautiful yoke in the last picture was probably very similar to what I'm missing and I can see how it went together