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My Grandfather was a machinist at The Messina works until he transferred to the Quad Cities when the new plant opened in '47 or '48 (IIRC for the year). He taught machine tooling at Messina during WWII. He also cast the Clifton Award trophies and made the scale models of "The Cars of the Future" for the automobile "Golden Jubilee" in Detroit/1946.Quote:
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Trafford Foundry workers. Trafford, PA. 1949.
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# 2683 Thats an impressive casting!
2683 is indeed impressive, but not as much so as the mold and the crane and the furnace and the MEN that made it. Boggles my mind when I think about it.
THEN, let your mind wander to what the casting is going to be just a part of!!!!
I think it might be an end bearing cap for a rolling mill machine. Very impressive casting indeed
RCA television production line workers. Camden, NJ. 1950.
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Those TV sets were manufactured way back when I was a young kid. I can remember watching some of the earlier TV shows sitting in front a TV set just like that. My dad would turn the set on and we had to wait quite some tim for the set to warm up before the picture would show up on the picture tube (cathode ray tube) as the screen was known at the time.
Thanks for posting!
Dick
RCA television production line workers. Camden, NJ. 1950.
I remember those test patterns.
The test patterns and playing the National Anthem at the end of the broadcasting day.
I remember having to smack the side of the Sears Silvertone B&W tv to keep the picture and I think the Indian head on the test pattern would not be allowed today...
I worked in the Sears and Roebuck TV and Radio repair department for a time as a young fella
We had an Admiral TV set in the mid 50's; probably when I was about 6 or 7 yrs old.
2 knobs; Vol and Channel. I think there were more controls, but we were advised to never touch them.
I recall the test patterns as well........meant the end of the telecasting day.
Of all the ads on TV at that time, I remember the Hamms bear and the jingle "From the land of sky-blue waters" I see that it's on YouTube, but of course with a lot of other ads.
One time, my sisters and I were doing some "crazy dancing" in the living room and pushed the set into the wall. As the narrow end of the CRT tube was sticking out quite a bit beyond the cabinet, it caught the brunt of the push, and was effectively disabled.
I was surprised my Dad didn't really get upset; as that would've been his normal reaction. Couple weeks later, back on.
Cotton mill workers. Indianapolis, IN. August, 1908.
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Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co. workers. Detroit, MI. November, 1903.
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The lamps seem out of place...
I've often wondered how they got enough light to work back in Ye Olden Days. Skylights are great, but in this case, they only run down the center of the shop. And the gaslights I'm sure aren't very bright or task-oriented. Those back benches must have been especially bad. Miner's lights, maybe?
Reminds me of my father telling me how Ford changed the lighting in the first week after taking over Briggs Motor Bodies Ltd in Swathling, Southampton.
The plant was originally an aircraft factory owned by Owen-Cunliffe Aviation at the Southern end of Southampton (Eastleigh) Airport that Brigg's bought to supply Ford in 1949, Pre WWII Owen-Cunliffe built aircraft, during they were part of the Supermarine Spitfire supply chain shadow factory network in addition to aircraft servicing and airframe investigation, including German aircraft (photo's online {https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/145437-trying-to-identify-heinkel-111-at-eastleigh} including a damaged Heinkel among damaged Hurricanes show just how few incandescent lamps were hung in the buildings).
When Ford took over in 1953 the high hung poor lighting which left many dark areas where a worker could hide (and sleep) was replaced with lower hung florescent tubes in 4 tube bays end to end length ways over the entire factory floor and no more than 10 feet apart across the width, now the entire workspace was brightly lit. Ford also installed high level walk ways, most enclosed with shuttered later mirrored windows, so management could walk unseen to monitor the workers below, performance of time and motion studies being high on Fords agenda. The factory was closed in 2013 with Ford chasing EU subsidies and cheaper labour moving production mainly to Turkey, with the buildings being demolished by the end of 2017.
Assemble piece by piece before assemble lines were born.
I was wondering what they are making so I went online to find:
Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Co. - History | VintageMachinery.org
Very interesting; they are the forerunners to Cadillac.
Workers installing boilers at the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company. Downs, WV. 1925.
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They could be removing them...
R.L. Taylor Motor Co. workers. Washington, D.C. 1923.
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Gotta love the torque tube...
Office of War Information workers. Chicago, IL. January, 1943.
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Tie shop workers at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. 1915.
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Liberty ship builders. 1941.
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The following summary is from the jacket of the book, Assault on the Liberty by James M. Ennes, Jr.; Random House, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-394-50512-3:In June 1967, jet aircraft and motor torpedo boats of Israel brutally assaulted an American naval vessel, the USS LIBERTY, in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack was preceded by more than six-hours of intense low-level surveillance by Israel photo-reconnaissance aircraft, which buzzed the intelligence ship thirteen times, sometimes flying as low as 200 feet directly overhead. The carefully orchestrated assault that followed was initiated by high-performance jet aircraft, and was followed up by slower and more maneuverable jets carrying napalm, and was finally turned over to lethal torpedo boats, which blasted a forty-foot hole in the ship's side.The attack lasted more than two hours-killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others-and inflicted 821 rocket and machine-gun holes in the ship. And when the LIBERTY stubbornly remained afloat despite her damage, Israeli forces machine-gunned her life rafts and sent troop-carrying helicopters to finish the job. At this point, with Sixth Fleet rescue aircraft finally enroute, the government of Israel apologized and the attacking forces suddenly withdrew. Only then did the identity of the assailants become known.
I do not remember this incident we should have spanked them
I remember hearing about this around the time it was all going on. It seems to me there was a relatively small blurb in the news, which grew larger over the next few years as word got out and folks started questioning what really happened. Personally, I think either Israel thought we were spying on them (which we were, along with spying on Egypt and other countries in the region), or they were trying to start an incident which we'd blame on Soviet-backed actors in the area to force us to enter the war they were waging against Egypt. There was no mistaking that ship, particularly by the people shooting at it, so I'm sure it wasn't an "accident" as the Israelis claimed. But there was as much covering up going on in the U.S. as there was overseas.
A former CIA agent said that the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 was carried out by an Israeli submarine and not by Al Qaeda as it was falsely claimed. The investigations and analysis of the materials and residue collected from the explosion site revealed that the explosive contained substances used only by two armies in the world: The US army and the Israeli army.
Press shop workers at the Homestead Steel Works. Homestead, PA. April, 1948.
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"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" & "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" seem aproposQuote:
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Workers sinking a cast section of the Michigan Central Railroad Company tunnel. 1910.
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation workers. 1900.
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Was it Patton that said something like: „God protect me from friends - enemies I can handle alone”?Quote:
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That was Voltaire...Quote:
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Are these ladies human powered generators?
Hello: They are assembly line workers finishing electric motors.
I looked again. It is hard to tell. I think they put all the supplies away for the photograph for industrial security. The lady in front has several coffee cups, but they might be holding oil or varnish?? No finished goods in sight. Their machines are powered by the line shaft under their work tables. You wouldn't want your dress or apron to get caught!
The second row of women look like they are winding radio antennas for the backs of table radios.
Edison received most of the notoriety for inventions of that time because he relished the fame, he loved it (his employees did the work and he took the credit). Westinghouse was a prolific inventor and was very shy to receive any social fame and he was very good to his employees. Just as he was about to loose ownership of a large portion of his business to the banks, his employees donated their money to help Westinghouse but it wasn't nearly enough. Westinghouse was a great man.