"spike & 2 & [anti-police horse or vehicle?]: short pieces of rubber tube with nails protruding" [NMLH.1993.93]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.93

Object Name
Improvised Weapon

Place
[Wapping & London]

Events
[dispute & Wapping]

Description
form: short pieces of rubber tube with nails protruding

OSP Note: illustrates the sometimes violent nature of strikes

OSP script: These gruesome objects were supposedly used to halt the progress of police horses and vehicles during the Wapping dispute of 1986.