BIG engine with some interesting industry shots

[willfinch36]

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons

[Dempsey]

I've seen this before, and its just absolutely brilliant, so rare to find colour photographs of any old British Industry!

Ugh Nightmare... lol been there!

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/1/1e/Koperslagerij.jpg

[Raddog]

This is all. I have nothing more to say:

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/d/dc/LIghtMachineShop.jpg

[Horus]

really good find that

[drhowser]

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/d/dc/LIghtMachineShop.jpg

Does anyone have a tissue?

[Bugsuperstar]

Thats a great read, amazing to see. Thanks for sharing the link :thumb

[Thestig]

Only one word is needed.................

WOW!!!!!!

[BenCooper]

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/e/e2/Planingcrsfwebs1.jpg

That's a BIG bicycle chain :)

[the126]

That is in fact a Triumph GT6 engine being built by tiny people:D

Awesome photos of a sadly bygone era, this country needs more brown overalls and flat caps!

[pirate]

That is in fact a Triumph GT6 engine being built by tiny people:D

Awesome photos of a sadly bygone era, this country needs more brown overalls and flat caps!

was going to say the citizens of Lilliput building Gulliver a car :thumb



Amazing pics shame they use boring ol gas turbines now

[BenCooper]

Oh I don't know - when I was a kid, got to go on a school trip to John Browns to watch the gas turbines being made. That was pretty stunning. And it blows your mind when you see a 2000hp Perkins diesel being used as a starter motor :)

I've still got the complimentary keychain somewhere...

[pirate]

Oh I don't know - when I was a kid, got to go on a school trip to John Browns to watch the gas turbines being made. That was pretty stunning. And it blows your mind when you see a 2000hp Perkins diesel being used as a starter motor :)

I've still got the complimentary keychain somewhere...


i worked on RR rb211's/g90's & olympus and they are pretty much a shaft with rotors and stators and some combustion chambers,there is very little to go wrong or adjust so engineering wise they are a bit boring,i always prefered working on my car engine.......a 2000hp perkins sounds ideal :D

[BenCooper]

Aye, but when you see a vertical boring machine turning the casing for a half-million-horsepower turbine, it's a beautiful sight :)

[styru]

Very nice link!!

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/b/b7/Mainjournalsmachined1.jpg

Series 3 Landrover crank?

[william dillon]

That's a Doxford marine Diesel engine crankshaft.

[Thestig]

That's a Doxford marine Diesel engine crankshaft.



:eek: No shit sherlock!!!!!

Considering the whole thread is about Doxford......

:tumbleweed

[styru]

:eek: No shit sherlock!!!!!

Considering the whole thread is about Doxford......

:tumbleweed

So not a Landrover then?

[Thestig]

So not a Landrover then?

what engine size is your landrover????

[styru]

what engine size is your landrover????

Currently without - but going purely on petrol consumption figures my last series three was about 230,0000,0000 litres

[Thestig]

:eek: fuck me!!!!! that a big engine!!

[BOW]

Also seen this before. However, it is odd that it's popped up again just a week or so after it was announced that the SS Manxman (http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/buy_a_piece_of_maritime_heritage_1_3715781)is to be dismantled. She is sitting in the dry dock of Pallion Engineering, which is what used to be the Doxford yard.

[Bone]

Awesome photos of a sadly bygone era, this country needs more brown overalls and flat caps!

Yeah, the first picture, bloke with a fag in his gob......... They were the days.

[Maniac]

You know the sad thing, the first thing I noticed in the photos was the lack of PPE equipment on the workers. lol Shows how times have changed. Awesome link, thanks for posting it. :)

[jumpstart]

You know the sad thing, the first thing I noticed in the photos was the lack of PPE equipment on the workers. lol Shows how times have changed (http://www.wimdu.co.uk/paris). Awesome link, thanks for posting it. :)

Yeah, it's at least something that we've moved forward to, keeping workers safe. I used to work in a warehouse like this, though we didn't produce anything as big as this and the possibilities for big accidents were quite small, but there were serious safety instructions and people took them very seriously.

[The Littlest Jellyfish]

At 7.30 am Mr McCoy told me to go to the Drawing Office and pick up drawings for the Crankshop, "If you don't know where it is, ask" and then deliver them to Mr. Averrie, the Foreman in the Crankshop.

It was the first time in the factory I was terrified by the size of the machines. The bloke on the lathe was my dad and he just winked at me as I went past. At 8.30 I collected the mail from the General Office and distributed it to different offices within the engine works. I made tea for the managers and even washed up. I also had to answered the telephone which was a new experience for me as we didn't have a telephone at home. I delivered drawings all over the factory and it was still only 10 am.

http://www.cultureshock.org.uk/stories/my-first-morning-at-doxford-engine-works.html

[Speed]

One of the best links ever posted

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/a/a4/PlaningJointFlangeBedplate.jpg

That would be one hell of a ride!!

[BOW]

One of the best links ever posted


That would be one hell of a ride!!

One of the manual turners i used to work with (he retired a couple of years ago) served his time on Clydebank. He told me some great tales of back in the day. One of the lathes he operated was that long between centres, it had a seat attached to the saddle.

[WB]

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/images/9/93/Testbed1.jpg

FAP FAP FAP....

I love the complete lack of safety gear & hardhats replaced with flat caps & trilbys! :thumb

[jasoneastanglia]

You know the sad thing, the first thing I noticed in the photos was the lack of PPE equipment on the workers. lol Shows how times have changed. Awesome link, thanks for posting it. :)
and not a high viz jacket in sight or safety goggles.
some great pics in the link..

[willfinch36]

One of the best links ever posted



One tries ones best...

[averheijden]

NEM-STOP used on some DOXFORD ENGINES

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/averheijden/6bc28263.jpg. http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/averheijden/f5f492f6.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f303/averheijden/dad13146.jpg

Regards
Alfons

http://users.telenet.be/doxford-matters/NEM-STOP.html

[averheijden]

MODS EDIT:

Alfons, the pictures you keep posting (4 or 5 posts so far) are far too big, and whilst loosely relevant are just repeated posts from the webpage link that you have already posted (your webpage)

Good work my friend - but not what this forum is here for.

Thank you, but enough

[Brick_Man]

ah someone dug these up again, amazing photos of an amazing company. As Dempsey, there are not many colour photos of British industry (1950-1970 odd), great that they are of pallion.

I lived ontop of where the doxford engines & foundry yard was, in a shitty university prison'esque block.
Personally I would have paid more to live in the old foundry itself, just give us a tarp to lye on and a mug of bovril ;)

[mr scott]

Brilliant!!