No 6207 A Study In Steel 1935

[Darrell]

Really cool video of steam locomotive construction in 1935 England, from start to finish, as old school as it gets:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE

Lots of foundry, smithy and machine shop work going on. Needless to say, the work environment hardly meets modern standards.

[PawPaw]

I'll have to show this to my son. He works in a manufactory that makes tank cars for Union Tank.

[Weetabix]

I like using the workers as ballast when they're moving the large plates for the boiler.

[Aesop]

Meh. The workers were probably mostly Welshmen and Irish, so any accidents wouldn't be regarded by management as any great concern.
The old school manufacturing process is suitably fascinating. Only a pity it's not in color.

[Weetabix]

If I recall my Calvin and Hobbes correctly, the physical world was in black and white back then.