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    Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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    foosball tables
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    that thought did cross my mind
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    Woodshavings - and possibly some dust
    I'd much rather lay in my bunk all freakin day lookin at Youtube videos .

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    Beat me tewt, Newt.

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    I’m guessing cabinets with drawers. Maybe library card index files.

    And lots of dust and shavings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKIP KILPATRICK View Post
    foosball tables
    +1 funny!

    and they are building "operation" games on the long benches.

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    Analog precursor to the digital confabulator.

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    what about the identical boxes on the tables to the left? It looks like they have insets for parts. Boxes for microscope sets?

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeeG View Post
    Boxes for microscope sets?
    its supposedly a photo of one of the shops of the vickers-armstrong arms factory
    Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul Pless View Post
    its supposedly a photo of one of the shops of the vickers-armstrong arms factory
    Which one, they had several. Found it
    I always think photographs which capture people going about their daily work are particularly special so I also thought it would be nice to share this view of the sawmills at the Scotswood Works.

    Workers in the sawmills at the Scotswood Works (TWAM ref. 5484)

    The sawmill was spread over three floors and included “a complete plant for the manufacture of Artillery wheels, consisting of spoke copying machines, spoke lathes, wheel lathes, one machine for felloe bending and a hydraulic tyring press for tyring wheels cold. The second floor contains small machinery, joiners’ benches, saddlers’ shop and a painting and varnishing shop”.
    It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.

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    Having built and repaired such wheels by hand it seems a much easier way to go.

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    Don't look much like wheels to me.
    Could they be racks and drawers for equipment for repairing and overhauling ordnance in the field?
    I have seen a few pics of horse drawn mobile workshops, and even carrier pigeon lofts. Rustons of Lincoln built quite a few of the latter..

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    Looks like pattern making

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    They look a lot like the ancient sorting cabinets we sorted mail into at the old post office. Two for town and three for the out of town runs. Letters sorted into pigeon holes then stacked and bundled in the correct order for delivery. I'm looking at the one in the centre of the photo- appears to have smaller compartments.

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