1915 Alfred Williams LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY Signed 1st edition VGC RARE

1915 Alfred Williams LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY Signed 1st edition VGC RARE (image 1/2)
1915 Alfred Williams LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY Signed 1st edition VGC RARE (image 2/2)
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LIFE IN A RAILWAY FACTORY BY ALFRED WILLIAMS DUCKWORTH AND COMPANY 1915 FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'My object in penning 'Life in a Railway Factory' was to take advantage of the opportunities I have had as a workman, during twenty-three years' continuous service in the sheds. The book opens with a short survey of several causes of labour unrest then follows a brief description of the stamnping shed... We pay a visit to the rolling mills, and watch the men shingling and rolling the iron and forging wheels for the locomotives....We encounter the shunter, watchmen, carriage finishers, painters washers- down and cushion beaters. Then the old canal, then we pass on to the ash-wheelers, bricklays, road waggon builders and the wheel-turning shed........etc' Contents include : - Labour Unrest - The Stamping - The Rolling Mils - Puddling and Shingling - The Shunters - The Old Canal - The Flying Dutchman - The Frame Shed - The Field - The Smithy - Fitters - Getting to Work - First Operations in the Shed - The Oil Furnace -Stamping - Forging and Smithing - Hydraulic Operations - 'Black Sam' - 'Strawberry' - First Quarter at the Forge - The Night Shift - Inferiority of Work Made by the Night Shift - Sickness and Accidents - Cold and Heat - Getting a Start - Short Time and Overtime - Table of Wages Paid at the Works and many more. read more
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