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Stitched panorama
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Cut wood? Buy a new coolant pump.
Well, alrighty then.
Niles Canyon Railway maintenance facility near Sunol, California.
I insist on the finest hand made chillies. None of that mass produced rubbish.
We're Here: Chilli Heads
180/365
"Russian Roulette" in some factory during demolition..
Thanks to L., A., and B. for this one:)
Lens: Sigma, 20mm, f9.0
Retouch: I've added some spin blur on machine detail... just for fun :)
Sold & Dismantled Machines Soon
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This is what happened when a business rival from Asia destroyed another local factory..
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Greetings to L. & A. for that trip!
Boy, they don't make them like they used to. This largish press machine was made in the U.S and has that cool cast iron info panel. Now, you're lucky to get a .pdf.
I have worked in and around engineering for more years than I care to remember. It still continues to amaze me what can be made from a lump of raw metal.
Sawing at a wood factory near Wat Saket, Bangkok. The area is well known for its wood factories and carpenters, largely producing doors out of teak and other hard woods.
My photographs are (C) Copyright Richard Friend and All Rights Reserved
WAR FINISH
THE FINISH ON THIS MACHINE CONFIRMS TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
MECHANICAL QUALITY STANDARDS HAVE NOT BEEN SACRIFICED
Van Norman Machine Tool Company
Springfield, Mass.
Who is the fairest of them all?
Definitely not this guy. He isn't working on a factory that produces fairness cream, oh no. There's nothing 'fair' about the machinery he works on or their emissions. In a recent survey by US News, this place wasn't voted 'The most habitable, multicultural joint in the world besides Vancouver'-either.
I have no idea what purpose the mirror serves. Perhaps it helps the worker take a last glance of himself before a cloud of carbon soot and aluminum particles engulf him, perhaps there's a poet in him that hopes for a painting hidden somewhere much like that of Dorian Gray..which wouldn't let him age..alas, Dorian Gray is a work of fiction..his life, isn't.
Keraniganj Machine Tools Factory, Dhaka
Hollem, Howard R.,, photographer.
Drilling a wing bulkhead for a transport plane at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas
1942 Oct.
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
Transport planes
Airplane industry
World War, 1939-1945
Assembly-line methods
Women--Employment
United States--Texas--Fort Worth
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-19 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34932
Call Number: LC-USW36-31
One of my last photoshoot during winter trip in 2020, thanks for this cold morning! :)
Orignal image size: 66x43cm
Lens: Tilt-Shift, 24mm, F3.5, manual focus
Amount of photos: 3 merged in one
Retuch: Yes
This is a very early example of a lathe made by Richard Roberts of Manchester.
In 1816, after two years working with Henry Maudsley, Roberts moved to Manchester and established his own business. he had learned the importance of accuracy from Maudsley and took to his to new levels with his own machine tools.
Roberts was a highly-inventive engineer and inventor who led the way for production and precise engineering. He built a wide range of machine tools and also pioneered standard gauges. His designs contributed significantly to the process of mechanisation and his machine tools helped the growth of factories, the textile industry and the railways.
Lathes rotate a piece of metal or wood so that it can be shaped by a cutting tool. This lathe, powered by a foot-operated pedal, could work larger pieces of metal at greater speeds and with greater accuracy than ever before.
Lathes are the first recorded machine tools. Being able to make machine tools meant being able to make parts for other machines. Manchester led the world in creating machine tools by the mid-19th century.
This example is typical of Roberts' thoughtful approach to machine construction and is designed for turning shafts or similar components. Its remarkable solidity ensured accuracy under load.
Despite being considered a pioneer of modern mechanical mechanisms he lacked business sense and Roberts died in poverty.
Seen in the Making the Modern World Hall at the Science Museum, South Kensington.
A wonderful technical advert in the form of a detailed drawing by Karl Schulpig and seen in a 1927 article on German machinery advertising which details that such stark black and white work was seen as being suited to such advertising. This advert was issued in 1922 and is for the Loewe rundschleifmaschinen or cylindrical grinding machines.
Karl Schulpig (1884 - 1948) was an important German artist and designer, known especially for his woodcut work as seen here, as well as for logo and trade mark designs. He created many long-lived brand designs including one that, although modified, survives to this day that of the Allianz, the German insurance giant.
The company of Ludwig Loewe & Co AG, this branch of the company then based in Berlin NW 87, was part of a long lived and famous German engineering and armaments company whose origins go back to the original Ludwig (1837 - 1886). Prior to World War 1 the company's main activities covered electrical equipment, machinery such as these machine tools and armaments - the latter forming part of the holding company under Loewe control the Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM). DMW had interests in many European armament makers including the British Vickers Sons & Maxim, on whose board a member of the Loewe family sat. Needless to say after WW1 the combine was split up although by 1929 the machine tools division advertising here became part of GEU, Gesellschaft für Elektrische Unternehmungen, and this merged with the giant AEG in 1942. The late 1930s had seem the company purged of its Jewish family and board members and after the Second World War surviving members were awarded compensation.
In 1946 the remnants of the company again took the title of Ludw. Loewe and was manufacturing basic goods in post-war Germany such as screwdriver, ovens and ploughs. In 1967 they became part of the larger DIAG (Deutsche Industrieanlagen GmbH), today part of MAN Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen GmbH.
Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) was an innovative English tool and die maker, inventor and machine-tool developer, now considered the founding father of machine-tool technology. As a pioneer in the development of the screw-cutting lathes and improved machine tools built wholly of metal, he was accustomed to making models to illustrate and develop his ideas, and this one was preserved within the company he founded.
It represents quite an advanced machine, specifically designed for making large screws. The screw being cut was turned directly by a labourer at the capstan wheel (the big one on the end at the right). The gears transmitted motion to a lead-screw that drew along the sliding saddle (the piece just right of centre) carrying the cutting tool. The machinist used the micrometer handwheel on the saddle to regulate the depth of the cut and to withdraw the tool as the machine was reversed, ready for another pass.
This model, from c1800, is made of iron, steel and brass, mounted on a wooden display base. It is about 1:8 scale compared with the original full-size lathe, which was probably 2-3m in length and built of iron.
The model was acquired by the Science Museum in 1900 and is one of a multitude of models covering a wide range of items of scientific interest currently displayed under glass on the Model Walkway (mezzanine above the ground floor).
A worker supervises a power loom weaving denim to be used to manufacture blue jeans in LSH textile company, in Xintang, Guangdong province, China, on February 9, 2012. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank
This early machine tool is significant as it cuts flat surfaces in metal components and when patented in 1842 was a significant improvement over previous designs, offering greater precision and ease of operation. Accurately flat surfaces were essential for a wide range of engineering products; machines like this were used in the construction of steam engines, textile spinning equipment and to make other machine tools.
This power-driven planing machine ran a cutting tool over the workpiece, removing a small amount of metal in a straight line. it then steps the cutter to one side, machining overlapping cuts until the entire surface has been levelled.
The designer, Joseph Whitworth, had worked in turn for Henry Maudsley, Charles Holtzapffel and Joseph Clement, all celebrated machine makers. He then set up alone and became the pre-eminent took-maker in Britain. He was a perfectionist, famous for his insistence on precision, standardisation and quality of workmanship. His contemporaries credited him with the "application of logical method and science" to industrial affairs.
Some later commentators have considered that ideas which Whitworth claimed as his own were actually acquired from his celebrated teachers. However, the scale of his achievements was enormous. He was one of the first to produce a wide range of tools suitable for all types of manufacturing. By the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Whitworth's firm had become a world leader in the field of machine tools. - all from adjacent explanatory board.
Seen in the Science Museum in South Kensington, London.
A fine double page advert from the long established engineering concern of The Butterley Company based at Ripley in Derbyshire. The company, founded in 1790 by the industrial pioneers the Outrams, Jessops and Wright families, was one of the best known amongst a myriad of similar industrial concerns and had over time expanded its activities from iron production and castings into steel, fabrication, machine tools and ancilliary equipment production as seen here.
This advert shows two of those specialist ranges; machine tools and overhead cranes. Best recalled for their construction of the vast train shed at London St. Pancras parts of the company survived into this century, the company finally and sadly vanishing in 2009.
A wonderful technical advert in the form of a detailed drawing by Karl Schulpig and seen in a 1927 article on German machinery advertising which details that such stark black and white work was seen as being suited to such advertising. This advert was issued in 1922 and is for the Loewe universal-fräscmachine - a milling machine with various components.
Karl Schulpig (1884 - 1948) was an important German artist and designer, known especially for his woodcut work as seen here, as well as for logo and trade mark designs. He created many long-lived brand designs including one that, although modified, survives to this day that of the Allianz, the German insurance giant.
The company of Ludwig Loewe & Co AG, this branch of the company then based in Berlin NW 87, was part of a long lived and famous German engineering and armaments company whose origins go back to the original Ludwig (1837 - 1886). Prior to World War 1 the company's main activities covered electrical equipment, machinery such as these machine tools and armaments - the latter forming part of the holding company under Loewe control the Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM). DMW had interests in many European armament makers including the British Vickers Sons & Maxim, on whose board a member of the Loewe family sat. Needless to say after WW1 the combine was split up although by 1929 the machine tools division advertising here became part of GEU, Gesellschaft für Elektrische Unternehmungen, and this merged with the giant AEG in 1942. The late 1930s had seem the company purged of its Jewish family and board members and after the Second World War surviving members were awarded compensation.
In 1946 the remnants of the company again took the title of Ludw. Loewe and was manufacturing basic goods in post-war Germany such as screwdriver, ovens and ploughs. In 1967 they became part of the larger DIAG (Deutsche Industrieanlagen GmbH), today part of MAN Ferrostaal Industrieanlagen GmbH.
My Lego model of a Vertical Milling Machine. Lego seems to lend itself well to these small size machine tool models
In the First World War, the British armed forces used large numbers of lorries, cars, tanks and aircraft. The ability to maintain and repair this equipment where it was being used was important. Hence, a fleet of mobile workshops were made to War Office specification. These consisted of three-ton lorries carrying the machinery necessary for making all but major repairs. During use the lorry was parked and its sides folded down to extend the workshop floor. The machine tools were then driven from the lorry engine by belts and shafting.
This 1/8th scale model is one of a series that Daimler provided for the Science Museum in London in 1921 to illustrate their role in providing mechanical transport and equipment during the 'war to end all wars.' Other models in the series included a Daimler motor ambulance, a tank with a Daimler engine and a large Daimler motor car for senior officers, although I didn't see these during my visit.
Our most affordable lathe yet, the Warco 1100 Wood Lathe.
For our full range of woodworking lathes, please see www.warco.co.uk/2904-wood-working-machines-tools
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One of the largest machine tools ever used in Chatham Dockyard, this set of 42 ft (12.8m) plate-bending rolls weighs 200 tons. They were installed in the yard's No. 5 Machine Shop in 1913 and were used to bend metal plates up to 1½ inches (37.5mm) thick.
The rolls were built by Hugh Smith & Co. at their Possil Works in Glasgow. The rolls were rescued by Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust in 1986, shortly before the machine shop was demolished. They were re-erected as seen above in 2010 as part of the No. 1 Smithery project.
Details from the noticeboard in front of the rolls. The tables and chairs belong to a cafe behind me.