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My daughter Rosy, forging the blade of a letter-opener. This shot was taken in very low light conditions in the forge, so it's not very sharp.
A remarkable document this - a spirally bound 140 pages of nuts, bolts, fixings, fasteners and special forgings that were in production at the Atlas Works of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds (Midlands) Ltd. at Darlaston in Staffordshire. The well produced catalogue has been thoughtfully published using index tabs and colours to cover the seven sections, covering black bolts and screws, high tensile, 'Bright" bolts and screws, brass as well as Specilaities and appendices.
GKN was a sprawling conglomerate based on the 1902 merger of Nettlefolds of Birmingham with Guest, Keen & Co who were themselves the product of Guest's (associated with the Welsh Dowlais Iron Co) and Keen's Patent Nut & Bolt Co. again of Birmingham. Over the decades they acquired many other similar concerns becoming a 'verically integrated' concern in that they produced iron and steel as well as formed metal into a wide variety of products. They had a loose 'structure' at the time of this catalogue although there was to be a brief interlude when the 'producing companies' were nationalised in 1951 before being reacquired between 1954 and 1955. The concern later morphed into GKN.
This doubel page shows the extent of the Atlas Works in Darlaston, south Staffordshire.
It was dark in the forest. Two forces waking towards each other at same speed, confident but at the same time careful. When they arrived, both teams stopped and looked at the other side. The first one to speak was Kian:
"Greetings Isacc all mighty. I have called this meeting because an idea occurred to me."
"And what would this brilliant idea be," said a strong and knowledgeable man who goes by the name of Isacc Strenoir.
"I fell as if we must act quick and strong against the queen's troops. To do so, I would suggest an alliance between my army and yours. Do you agree?" Asked Kian, eager to see what the warlord would reply.
"Very well Kian, but on just one condition: If you betray us in anyway, Garheim will hunt you down and hang you for treachery. Understood?"
"You have my word. We gather our forces and in a weeks time, we meet here with our armies ready and we attack the castle. Goodbye now," said Kian as he started to leave.
"You have made a powerful friend, but that friend has powerful troops. If those troops are misused, you will pay the price. Goodbye now Kian," said the Garheim warlord as he started to head his way.
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A free build I came up with to get the attack in the place. Hope you enjoyed,
Kian
A wild mare forging for food in the rain.
I was hoping to get a shot of some of the wild horses in the snow, but the snow did not show. So I went with some close up portrait style shots.
A wild mare forging for food in the rain.
I was hoping to get a shot of some of the wild horses in the snow, but the snow did not show. So I went with some close up portrait style shots.
Forging his own hybird country sound, Isbell songs are quite often sung in the first person as the songs he writes have a little bit of him in his songs' characters.
Forjando su propio sonido de country híbrido, las canciones de Isbell a menudo se cantan en primera persona, ya que las canciones que escribe tienen un poco de él en los personajes de sus canciones.
Forging southwestwards with all possible speed to make up for lost time, Southern Railway Merchant Navy (21C1) Class no. 35028 "Clan Line" sweeps past Wimbledon West Junction, working 1Z67, UK Railtours' "Bournemouth Belle" Pullman railtour from London Waterloo to Bournemouth, while South West Trains no. 450018 decides to photobomb the shot as it works 1A26, the 0914 from Alton to London Waterloo.
The date of the tour, July 5th 2017, is quite significant for the loco and the coaches, as it was 50 years to the day that
a) "Clan Line" ran her last passenger train under the auspices of BR, and
b) the last steam-hauled "Bournemouth Belle" Pullman train ran.
A blacksmith forges a piece of work at Bay City Michigan's "River of Time" event
Copyright © 2010 - Craig Sterken. All rights reserved.
Viewed from the top of the three rise Forge Locks, people are enjoying their weekend leisure on the Leeds – Liverpool Canal near Kirkstall, north of Leeds on 8 September 2012. A Killcoch - Hunslet coal train (6E73) rattles past the scene headed by 66530.
Pilkington's Metal Marine Fabricating & Machine Shop, 950 Cordova St E, Vancouver BC.
Last shot from Pilkington's
This is their B & S Massey forging hammer.
From Graces Guide - British Industrial History: www.gracesguide.co.uk/B._and_S._Massey
B & S Massey's steam hammers of Openshaw, Manchester.
1860 Company founded by Benjamin and Stephen Massey.
1869 Advert. Steam hammers.
1889 Patent compound steam forging press.
1900 Tire Hammer for railway Wheels. Article and Illustration in The Engineer.
1911 Expansion Valve Gear for Steam Hammers.
1912 Became private company.
1915: 'BELGIAN KILLED AT ENGINEERING WORKS. A verdict of accidental death was returned an inquest held by the City Deputy Coroner (Mr. C. W. W. Surridge), today, on a Belgian named Nicholas Fastre , of Old Lane, Higher Openshaw, who was killed at Messrs. B. and S. Massey Ltd., engineers, of Openshaw. Fastre and another Belgian were engaged Wednesday in removing a steam hammer weighing about 2½ tons when the hammer fell forward and dropped on Fastre. It was stated by Mr. Leonard Massey, director of the firm that they employed large numbers of men, and this was only the third fatality at the works in fifty years.
1920 April. Issued catalogue on steam hammers.
1946 Became public company.
1961 Engineers, manufacturing pneumatic and steam hammers, drop stamps, forging presses, screw presses, furnaces and tyre fixing rolls for railway locomotives and wagons.
1968 Hydrostamp machine for dies installed at Ruston and Hornsby.
1972 Received support for a project on a hydrostamp press, from government programme for the machine tool industry.
From the Bladesmith's Forum:
www.bladesmithsforum.com/index.php?showtopic=16068
The main purpose of my trip to England was to meet and get to know John Nicholson. Let me tell the story... back in 1861, in Manchester England, two brothers Ben and Stephen Massey started a machining company that eventually focused on manufacturing power hammers. These power hammers were extremely popular around the world. The early times were tough because the first customers were cotton mills in England but they were suffering because much of the raw cotton came from the US which was in a civil war and there was blockades that reduced the cotton supply. This forced them to look outside of England to other industries to grow their business. During world War 1 and 2, the company thrived creating forging machines for companies supplying the war effort. During the visit, John and Alastair Nicholson gave me a rare copy of a book called the "Sons of the Forge" which told the story of the Massey family and the company. The Massey's not only were inventive in the features they built into their hammers but they were very progressive in how they treated people and ran the factory. For as good as the product and company was it eventually succumbed to the economics of the modern world. There were over 10,000 forging hammers manufactured by Massey when they were in business. Many are still in operation today.
John's father Alastair had worked for Massey in the factory when it was an operating company... and knew power hammers and the need for a continual supply of quality parts and service for the hammers. John eventually purchased the intellectual property, and rights to the Massey marks and with his father started Massey Forging Limited.
John's really has two businesses... one is rebuilding old Massey forging equipment and supplying parts for Massey owners. The other business is importing Anyang Power Hammers into the UK.
The factory was a trip back in time. There were ink drawings of old power hammers that date back to before the 1900's (there were no blue print or copy machines back then.) There was a room where they stored ink drawings and eventually blue prints of every Massey hammer that was ever made.
As I got to spend a full three days with John and Alastair I received a new appreciation of just how much they knew about pneumatic power hammers of all sizes... John is truly a world expert on power hammers. I have incuded several pictures of John's operation. John in his spare time (what he has) makes Damascus knives.
To learn more about Massey, John has two websites:
John and Alastair, thank you for sharing the time and knowledge.
My daughter Rosy, forging the blade of a letter-opener. This shot was taken in very low light conditions in the forge, so it's not very sharp.
The Finkl steel mill on Cortland, almost sandwiched by two AnnTaylors (one each on Clybourn and Halsted), leaves the doors open for ventilation on cool nights. It's quite jarring to go fetch some organic granola from the Food Hole or a bottle of port from Sam's Wines, then get fleeting glimpses of Dark Satanic Mills on the way back. A tiny island of Heavy Industry stuck amidst an orgy of post-industrial mass-class retailing.
After years, I finally figured out why so much debris clogs the bike lanes on Cortland: not glass bottles thrown from cars, but tiny bits of scrap metal and tempered glass that have flown hundreds of meters from a scrapyard next to the steel mill (feeding them scrap for recycling) have given me at least one flat tire.
Forging his own hybird country sound, Isbell songs are quite often sung in the first person as the songs he writes have a little bit of him in his songs' characters.
Forjando su propio sonido de country híbrido, las canciones de Isbell a menudo se cantan en primera persona, ya que las canciones que escribe tienen un poco de él en los personajes de sus canciones.
Forging paths to digital transformation and inclusive digital societies
Twitter, New York - 18 September 2022
© ITU/ M. Jacobson -Gonzalez
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where Nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to body and soul alike.
John Muir
Home of Alcoa's Cleveland Works, adjacent to the O&E Canal Towpath at Harvard Avenue
www.alcoa.com/locations/usa_cleveland/en/home.asp
"The multi-million dollar investment involved the complete redesign and modernization of the 50,000-ton press, a 92-foot structure – with five stories above and seven below the ground – that began production in 1955.
'As one of only five existing heavy closed die forging presses in the United States, this national historic engineering landmark is strategically important to our nation’s defense and Alcoa’s commercial competitiveness,” said Roegner. The press was originally installed as part of the Air Force Heavy Press program following World War II and has been used to build parts for nearly every military aircraft, helicopter, and tracked and combat vehicles from the 1950s through present day.'"
This photo was taken back in march with my newly-acquired Fuji GX680III camera. This is a beast of a medium format camera that has a front standard with tilt, swing, shift movements. These movements enabled me to correct the lens distortion and make the vertical lines of this press closer to parallel.
Speaking of the press, this is a 12,000 ton press that was installed at the Homestead Works back in 1903. It was used to forge steel for armor plating. It currently resides in the back corner of the Lowe's parking lot at the Waterfront.
Fuji GX680III
Fujifilm Provia 100
Movements: Shift up, shift left
Me forging billets of steel for Sword blades with my hydraulic press I built, in my workshop last Fall.
Forging uphill through amber signals on the approach to Banbury on Easter Monday. Just over an hour to sunset and shadows on both sides of the train are lengthening.
Note the absence of a guard's coach at this end, so the red doors go right up to the power car; a different perspective compared with the previous and following picture. First Great Western's 43134 is leading.
Reason for diversion: Easter weekend closure of Reading.
© Copyright Steve Banks, no unauthorised use.
We rescued this fledgeling from some aggresive Mynah birds and it settled quickly with its gardians.
Forging exsistence,
With steel pointed claws,
Planets of ore,
Of hatred and scorn.
The Grand Architect,
Carries the worlds.
But who, dare I ask,
Forged this mech of rancor?
An entry for MECHA Hub's Civilian Mecha Contest. [Note this is microscale - space, unmanned. The planets he holds are but marbles in a firey grasp.]
Hoover Dam High Scaler Joe Kine, bronze statue by Steven Liguori. During the construction of Hoover Dam there were few jobs that equaled the high visibility of the high scaler. A man hanging hundreds of feet in the air on the side of a deep canyon, knocking away loose rock and setting dynamite charges with a jackhammer sparked romantic images of courage and daring. There were 112 deaths associated with the construction of the dam. The lowest wage for a Hoover Dam worker was 50 cents an hour. The highest, $1.25.