Blankton
Materials
- Aug 27, 2019
- 4
Hi, I hope this post is allowed. It is a bit random. I am an engineer, but this isn't my area of expertise!
Probably due to spending too much time in decomposing factories, I have a bit of an interest in old bits of industrial stuff. I recently found what I believe to be an old apprentice training school piece. It was in an open air junkyard in Norfolk (UK), so I had to save it from rotting away in the rain.
As far as I can tell it would have been mounted on the wall in either a college, or maybe the apprentice shop in a big engineering firm. It seems to show examples that the students would have to make. The title of the board is "Mechanical engineering Craft Practise". I can find a book with this name from the 1960's. Would there have been an apprenticeship scheme built around this book? I entered Industry in the 2000's, everything was HND's and HNC's farmed out to the local college to teach. I didn't know if some of the more senior members on here might have some recollection.
The second clue is that a couple of items have a persons name (I assume the person that made the pieces) and "C.ILW" (I think, it could be C.IIW)stamped on them. I thought this might be the name of the institution that made them.
It is all housed in an oak case. I'm not really sure what to do with it. I have just opened it and vacuumed out some dust. Some of the labels have come loose, which I will re-glue. There is some surface rust on some of the pieces, I'm not sure whether to polish these up and apply some clear laquour or leave as is....
Sorry for the long post. Here are some pictures. It would be great to hear of anyone who has memories of one of these, or similar.
This one is my favourite - would they have had to do this with a file?
Probably due to spending too much time in decomposing factories, I have a bit of an interest in old bits of industrial stuff. I recently found what I believe to be an old apprentice training school piece. It was in an open air junkyard in Norfolk (UK), so I had to save it from rotting away in the rain.
As far as I can tell it would have been mounted on the wall in either a college, or maybe the apprentice shop in a big engineering firm. It seems to show examples that the students would have to make. The title of the board is "Mechanical engineering Craft Practise". I can find a book with this name from the 1960's. Would there have been an apprenticeship scheme built around this book? I entered Industry in the 2000's, everything was HND's and HNC's farmed out to the local college to teach. I didn't know if some of the more senior members on here might have some recollection.
The second clue is that a couple of items have a persons name (I assume the person that made the pieces) and "C.ILW" (I think, it could be C.IIW)stamped on them. I thought this might be the name of the institution that made them.
It is all housed in an oak case. I'm not really sure what to do with it. I have just opened it and vacuumed out some dust. Some of the labels have come loose, which I will re-glue. There is some surface rust on some of the pieces, I'm not sure whether to polish these up and apply some clear laquour or leave as is....
Sorry for the long post. Here are some pictures. It would be great to hear of anyone who has memories of one of these, or similar.
This one is my favourite - would they have had to do this with a file?