WESTFIELD WHIP - MORE MACHINES

These machines are cotton braiders that put the cover on the whip. If you notice the ropes above the machines, they pull the whips up as they are being braided. To protect the cotton it is dipped in several coats of lacquer.



Since the whips have to start from the bottom, they are fed down these holes, through the machines before being pulled up towards the ceiling.



This is a rolling machine, to insure the whip is nice and round it is put in this machine.



Or as they did in the old days,resorted to the manual roller.




To tell the truth I'm not quite sure what this machine is, I think it is the braider for the handles of the whips.



This gizmo is for putting on the metal ends of the handles. If they don't quite fit, this "persuades" the handles to be the correct size.