Arthur

The first photo looks like an open hearth steelworks, and the fifth is a blast furnace plant. I cannot identify either works from those photos. I’ll try and catch the film to see if that helps with locations. .

God’s team, they were demonstrating the virtue of charity. .

Sorry, Corinthians 1-10 Man. United. .

Yes they do, God supports them Corinthians 1-10 ‘but that you be perfectly United’ .

I’m sure it is the same root. They were also referred to as a ‘telpherage’.

Why? Genuine question. I don’t know when the name came into use, but I have found a reference suggesting 1885. I’m just curious as to why the L&Y would not have used it? .

Indeed. 9/11 being a case in point. For it to have been a terrorist attack probably no more than twenty, possibly fewer, people would have known the detail prior to the event. They had to keep it secret for just a few months. Once the event happens they want the world to know. If it goes wrong they maybe get caught, still get the publicity. For it to have been a government/CIA/ Lizard men/Illuminati conspiracy tens, possibly hundreds, of individuals would have been involved in the planning and execution. Post event, many more people would be drawn closely into the aftermath, few who could have been identified and primed prior to it. All of whom, hundreds of people, many with no allegiance to the conspirators, would have to be prepared to keep it quiet for ever. For ever. And if it does go wrong, the conspiracy is revealed, the political cost to the conspirators is terminal. Occam’s Razor; in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is usually correct. .

Machines best appreciated in action, ten minutes of mesmerising mechanical motion; Walthers did a kit, long since sold out. .

Understandable Robert, you’ve done well to keep both enterprises running as long as you have. Are you still taking orders up to the 19th? I might just stock up if you are. .

The Manchester Victoria telpher is a small example of the type. They were generally much larger structures installed to move bulk materials. Quite a few gasworks had them to move coal into and out of the stocking grounds and coke from the retorts. Here’s one that served Canon’s Marsh gasworks in Bristol. A rather poor shot showing a telpher serving some stocking grounds. Large systems included several man operated carrying cars with turnouts on the monorail allowing quite complex systems to be developed. U.K. builders included Strachan & Henshaw of Bristol and Mitchell Engineering of Peterborough. .

Yes, I note on his ‘atom bombs do not exist’ page he offers 1 million Euro if anyone can prove him wrong. So, if I can get an old Soviet nuke for, say, half a million Euro. I could strap him to it, give him the ‘button’ and he could get the proof he needs. I could make half a million Euro. Better make sure I collect it first though. On his ‘space flight is impossible’ page he has an unhealthy interest in the, according to him, difficulty in taking a leak in space. Bizarre. .

Well, I have to admire his ‘thoroughness’. That rant about the Costa Concordia goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on...... You know you’re in nut job territory when text contains big letters, sentences in colours and underscoring. I note he offers training and consultancy on maritime matters.....Wonder if he gets much business. Edit; Noticed Pete has already mentioned his business ‘services’. .

The smaller the better, especially for arc furnaces. It is, however, a balance between the cost/difficulty in breaking something up and the extra time/fuel required to melt down a large, solid lump. It’s also got to be small enough to get through the furnace door/mouth. You would get an 08 engine block in most furnaces, whether you’d want to is a different question. Engine blocks are cast iron. That is a relatively brittle metal and can be smashed to pieces given a sufficient pounding. Scrap breaker at Margam/Port Talbot used for breaking up iron castings, slag balls etc. by dropping a steel ball from a great height. Small explosive charges have also been used in the past to shatter large lumps of metal. .

South Wales produced something else which was widely used in the manufacture of fertiliser, steel slag. That is the waste from steel making (not iron making) furnaces of which there were many in the area. Most iron ores contained phosphorous, which it was important to remove during the iron to steel conversion process. Consequently, steel slag produced as a byproduct of the basic steel making process was rich in phosphorous. The value of such fertilisers was recognised by Welshman Sydney Gilchrist Thomas, who improved/developed the Bessemer process, and who made a considerable fortune from it. However, though steel slag is heavy enough, a one plank seems a bit ‘small’. It was certainly carried in three plank wagons. So, a possibility perhaps. .