Portrait of an Engineer - British Railways in the 1950's
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Uploaded by wdtvlive42 on Apr 14, 2011
Produced in 1954, this film depicts a typical day of production engineer Ted Wilson who has spent 30 years working at the Vulcan Foundry (located at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire). At this time the foundry was building both steam and electric locomotives for Britain and other countries.
You'll see the inner workings of the foundry, including the large machines in operation.
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The Vulcan Foundry- now the site of a housing estate.
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If only we'd had Governments that could see the value of this kind of manufacturing this country wouldn't be in the state it is now. Even though we still have a company that could make trains the idiots give the contracts to other countries. In Germay they can't get enough skilled workers. In Britain there's no work for the few skilled workers left.
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@RICKD790 I'm reading 'Under 10 CMEs' by E A Langridge (two volumes) at the moment. Really worth getting as it tells the story of how detailed parts came to be the way they were and conflicting thinking about steam locomotive design. Highly Recommended! It begins with a premium apprenticeship on the LSWR at Eastleigh and runs through to the design and construction of the BR Standard Classes and the first generation diesels. The author was what I'd call a design engineer. Good read
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The Governments of the UK want to increase employment? Give us back our Steam locos!
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@RICKD790 One thing I learned from factory work is that people there only insult you if they like you and are polite if they do not!
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@SteffanLlwyd I'm sure they were Steffan. I bet they had a lot of banter in a place like that, which would be completely necessary with such physical hard work.
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@RICKD790 I agree! Fantastic. Jobs worth doing. And they were building probably better locos for export than we had on most UK routes.
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Priceless. People talk about the 'knowledge economy' these days.... as if there was no knowledge at Vulcan's!!!!!!!
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Just brilliant. I would have given my right arm to work in a place like Vulcan Foundry. Times like these will never return sadly.
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Wonderful footage of a time sadly gone.......who would have thought we would change so much. Love those British Rail films and this is no exception. Thank you for sharing.
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Great Film, Thank you..And not a single %^$#% hard hat in sight!!!
mikec6201 10 months ago 6
Great vid, love it!
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