Life in a Railway Factory

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ISBN-10:

0678055173

ISBN-13:

9780678055175

Author(s): Alfred Williams
Edition: New ed of 1915 ed
Released: Jan 01, 1978
Publisher: Kelley, USA
Format: Hardcover, 316 pages
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Description:

For twenty-three years, up to the First World War, Alfred Williams worked in the Great Western Railway's Works at Swindon, the locomotive capital of the west. The population of the town was then about fifty thousand, all more or less dependent upon the factory for survival. About twelve thousand men normally worked there.Every singe aspect of life in a railway factory is covered in this book, first published in 1915, and he did not pull any punches in describing the appalling working conditions in the foundries, blast furnaces, blacksmith's shops and engine sheds which made up this vast industrial complex.If you want to know how a locomotive works, how each component, each rivet and nut and bolt came together to create a living breathing steam engine, read this book.

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