. Railway mechanical engineer . r-house was working. The fan was driven at onetime by a jacked-up Ford car, but mostly by a venerable port-able steam engine, salvaged from a scrap-heap. By the end of 1917, however, the establishment was up to m^^^ ■•:^^^f^^. 1 -. T^T;_. ■ , ^^W^^i j8sd«gg«r,if., Machine Shop During Installation of Machine Tools, September, 1917 There were officers and men from India, China, South Africa,South America and Australia; and numbers of others whohad never been outside the Old Country before the was nothing of trades union restriction about thesemen. Machin
. Railway mechanical engineer . r-house was working. The fan was driven at onetime by a jacked-up Ford car, but mostly by a venerable port-able steam engine, salvaged from a scrap-heap. By the end of 1917, however, the establishment was up to m^^^ ■•:^^^f^^. 1 -. T^T;_. ■ , ^^W^^i j8sd«gg«r,if., Machine Shop During Installation of Machine Tools, September, 1917 There were officers and men from India, China, South Africa,South America and Australia; and numbers of others whohad never been outside the Old Country before the was nothing of trades union restriction about thesemen. Machinists, blacksmiths, boilermakers, pattern-makersor moulders, dug and mixed concrete for foundations, built strength and the shops almost in full swing. There had beenlo5 locomotives erected and a start had been made with heavy—some very heavy—repairs. Up to the end of December, 1918, 2J2 new locomotiveswere erected and 370 engines were repaired, 2,073 pairs ofwheels were turned up and 275 wheels re-tired, 737 tons of. The Foundry as it Appeared December. 1917: Note the Cupola Built Out of a Corrugated Furnace huts, erected shops, rigged derricks or did the next job thathad to be done, whatever it might be. The erection of engines imported from Canada and theUnited States was commenced almost as soon as the machinetool et|uipment began to arrive and months before the craneswere u|i, and proceeded simultaneously with the building andinternal preparation of the shops. The first two engines wereturned out together early in July, 1917. forgings were turned out, 2,186 tons of iron castings and 168tons of brass. The average output for 1918 is shown in thetable. Throughout the operation of the shops the work was grave-ly handicapped by the extraordinar) variety of engines to bedealt with, the exceptionally bad condition of many that hadworked for years without a good repair, the paucity of work-ing drawings and the impossibility of either obtaining or 550 RAILWAY MECHANICAL
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