Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1987
Date 06-Nov
Volume 159
Issue 3,812
Page 510
Category Reminiscences
Part
Title Tricks of the Trade
Author John Day
Notes More memories of his Apprentice days. Boiler house at the M.W.B. Hampton Works, power station generating hall, the pumping engine, economiser soot scrapers at Littleton Pumping Station, No. 1 converter at Manchester Power Supply Station, a B.T.H. turbo-generator, Worthington-Simpson condensers, Maple Brook Pumping Station, a move to the electrical shop, Andy Clements,Sid Freeman, Bill Nunn, illicit jobs, Mather & Platt dynamo, main switchboard at Norwich