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Old 28-06-2011, 23:16
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I was sent this link, and found it most interesting. It discusses the development of marine propulsion, and has a bunch of beautiful pictures of classical large machining operations:

[url]http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#Th
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Absolutely Brilliant, I served an apprenticeship in a machine shop on a very very much smaller scale than that so it brought back memories. I'm not sure if anyplace like that exists in the UK now.
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Some crankshaft, had to have some faith putting that together!Long lost days of our manufacturing industry now a island of service industry. We have got start making things again and give the kid's a future.....m
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John, what a grand set of photos , in those days we had many manufacturing industries, we excelled in ship building, locomotive & carriage, cars, buses the list is endless. It would be wonderful to have those industries today. However, the initial cost of
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Some of the machines shown were made in the US, by companies long gone. Without the industrial might of the US and Great Britain, we might all be speaking German and Japanese now. When a replacement heat exchanger was needed for a local nuclear powered ge
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