Just for fun can you guess what this relic does (still in use)

[Darkwood]

Just be caredul! I've always been a plant electrician, I make a great cup of tea!

Soz Tony i meant 99% of them .... been going around factories, hospitals etc for yrs and the worst bunch of plant sparkies were at sellafield, we subbed to a porta-cabin company and was told they had sent 2 cabs there but needed a full electric install, we were given the electric plans as it came to light their own plant sparkies had done the first ca themselves but were now too busy so the 3 of us set off early door and worked a long day.. 10hrs work 4hr drive round-trip... management came down when we informed them we had done but not just one there was 4 of them which was strange, it came to light it took 4 of their lads a full 5 days to do the first identical cab and 3 of us did it in long shift.
They said they were amazed and how did we do it so fast....erm!!! We explained our wage is dependent on how hard we work and how good a job we do... your lads get paid regardless thus wont burn alot of calories inbetween their tea breaks. Now i can only assume they got one hell of a reality check off their bosses but we knew it was a one off job so didnt mind speaking openly.

 

[ipf]

Small engineering works where I used to do the maintenance had 4 of them, all primary resistance, BSA. About 300yds from my back door, down a back street. Closed down a couple of years ago. More jobs down the pan. One problem there was forevever cleaning out the overhead trunkings......always full of engineering oil. Some great, mucky times on breakdowns though. Once found a bust 415v contactor coil with 1942 stamped on it, so 60odd years slugging away. The lathes were manufactured to produce bullet shells in the 2nd ww.

 

[Knobhead]

The workshops where I started my apprenticship had several 2nd WW lathes. Originally for PIAT anti tank shells.

 

[Rockingit]

An old boy customer of mine has a lathe in his workshop (not been used as such for a long time now, sadly) which has a brass plaque on it as a 'medal' given by the war office in recognition of its war time service turning aircraft parts.

 

[Bobster]

Changing the subject slightly but one of the sites I worked on had 2x 2Mva transformers that were built in 1937 ex MOD and are still in service now. Old gear seems to be built a lot better than the gear we get now.

 

[vaughant]

Some quality old kit there.Was gonna say braking resistors viewing via iPhone but I can see the arrangement now.An early form of "drive"!!!

 

[ipf]

Used to work in one place that had a 2nd ww german E-boat deisel engine as a standby generator. That was some peice of kit.