Vintage work crew photos

[Frank S]

One thing is for sure there was not a spare foot of unused floor space.

It does look as though there are 2 machines per man. that would mean 4 barrels at a time per man whether they are boring reaming or crowning or riffling it really makes no difference that is a highly stressful situation done hour in hour out every working day. Then think about having to do the same thing all of the time.
in the past I had often kept several of my machines running at the same time each with a different set up doing certain stages of what ever the run happened to be. and my wife almost always had 1 or 2 band saws going while running the radial drill-press but the differences there was we didn't have our machines almost stacked on top of each other and every run was different.
Doing what those guys were doing would have driven me over the edge in 1 day.