[modeleng] Re: Nice machinery

Usually the foremen kept the drawings, possibly inside those bowler hats 
Alan! When I worked in Engineering, including at Hunslet Engine Works, all 
of the marking out was done by a seperate team (all three of them, all made 
up to foremen to be able to be paid more than the rest of the shop floor, 
but that's another tale ...) though, with the ordinary foremen using their 
copies of the drawings to check the work as it went along. For rough cutting 
the big stuff, similar to the propellers shown on this web site, we used 
plywood templates though, not much different from my wife using a paper 
dress pattern - sort of! <VBG>

TonyW.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 7:58 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Nice machinery


>I found it fascinating to see that they did their jobs the same as we do,
> but just to a different scale.
> I would assume that there must have been some drawings somewhere, but 
> where?
>
> Equally as interesting not a pair of safety glasses in sight.
> Note the hats to distinguish the foremen etc.
> Alan
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Mason" <roger.g3tdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 4:21 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Nice machinery
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>    The thing that struck me when looking at all those machining
> operations - there was not a drawing in site.   Did the operators always
> do the same job day after day,  so that they knew the dimensions they
> were working to?
>
>       Cheers,
>
>          Roger Mason,  in St. Agnes.
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