JHOLLAND1
Titanium
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- Oct 8, 2005
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- western washington state
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Pic 4 must be "the great crane" from Woolwich Arsenal? or maybe there was another? I'm not sure how many wandering artists they would have allowed in, the more "imaginitive" paintings could have been from plates in The Engineer perhaps?
I'm surprised at painting No2. " Never Stand Under A Suspended Load " was the rule in my working life. Especially one rigged like that. Also what were three guys doing under it ?
Regards Tyrone
Now or then, you'd have to be stupid to walk along under that. I think it's the impression of an artist more interested in glorifying the proletariat than in any understanding of actual work. You don't guide that load by pushing up from underneath.
In nations where land is much more expensive than here in the States it is normal to not "waste" space on aisles, so machines are rigged by crane swinging them over the other machines. The operators put their hard hats on when a machine is passing overhead! I protested that the hard hat would not even contain the mess of a falling machine, but I was informed that the hard hat was to protect them from bolts or wrenches which might have been left on the machine and rain down. I have also seen machines rigged through a hole cut in the roof, by crane or by helicopter, when the bay was not high enough for one machine to pass over the others.
I worked at a place that had one of those. A workmate of mine took the head apart and then couldn't put it back together again. There was dozens of gears in there and some got lost eventually. The machine ended up getting scrapped.#5 - the gang-drilling operation - looked at first to me to be the weekly trip to the laundramat. Were those engine blocks (that's what they are, aren't they?) moved around manually?
-Marty-
Rolls-Royce Merlin cylinder blocks. Built under licence at Ford's purpose-built factory in Manchester.
I wondered who made the multi-spindle drilling machines seen in painting #5, post #1.
I looked up some technical articles which covered the manufacture of aero engines during WW2.
One article covered building the Packard-Merlin in Detroit.
There was a photo of a Baush Machine Tool Co. multi-spindle drill, and it looks exactly like the one in the painting.
Natco Co. is also mentioned as another maker of multi-spindle drills used by Packard.
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I'm surprised at painting No2. " Never Stand Under A Suspended Load " was the rule in my working life. Especially one rigged like that. Also what were three guys doing under it ?
Regards Tyrone
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