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BUILDING THE IRON
Memories to last me for all of my days
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WHO NEEDS COMPUTER TABLETS
If you like the sound of machinery, if you even like just talking machinery then get my book for a tonic!! Plenty of pinions, bevel gears, clutches and drumshafts with machinery deck sideframes and control levers for good measure. You can feel the oil and dirt on your hands. So sling your hook this way and wrap it around a few memories of diggery days and gearboxes.
I was born at the right time; happily when the termTablet referred to pills taken with water to help you swallow 'and make you better', not for' thumb dancing' on a one dimensional flat screen messaging a friend holding its twin somewhere else on the planet. There was much more three dimensional stuff going on in my home town of Swansea then; devastated by wartime bombing with much reconstruction by mechanical diggers which casual all conquering ability quickly became a much see distraction for a fascinated public. (Have you perhaps not noticed how more quarrelsome the world has become since the the mobile phone arrived.) Our time was set very much in the mechanical age everything developing with schoolboys encouraged to take an interest. So let me take you out of the over programmed computer world of today and back to the time of Meccano, model railways and airplanes, chasing mechanical diggers around building sites climbing aboard to stand behind the driver pulling the multitude of levers in front of him in a world that no loner exists. We became ten year old businessmen making scrap yards deals looking for bits to build a trolley or bicycle and having to avoid a fight with back street rough boys on the way home trying to steal our treasure.
So if you follow me around a few projects we'll have a chat with the drivers and then away to the City of Lincoln and the Cathedral high machine and erecting shops of RUSTON BUCYRUS at their Beevor Street factory. Its the 1960's; Rock and Roll, Beatle mania and all that. We'll see a lot of action as they put things together maybe having a few laughs on the way. This is both a record of and tribute to those times; a salute to the industry and the people I was lucky enough to work with so bring some spanners and I'll inroduce you to a few of them.
Price: £19.64 Per copy + shipping in protective wallet £4.85