| Description | Track 1: Tape speed is too slow; the track is inaudible, 1.09 mins
Tracks 2-3: Sound of cutting
Track 4: Charles Parker talks to a worker about his lathe and asks if all machines are different, the man says they are, 1.26 mins
Track 5: the man talks about grinding tools; different men grind tools in different ways, they talk about how men should be treated, people in Nottinghamshire are different from Lancashire and Cheshire, 1.54 mins
Track 6: Mr Ash talks about planing rails, sound of a machine, a man talks about his planing machine, making changeover points for the Underground, 2.45 mins
Track 7: they talk about men sensing how the machine is cutting, having more control when operating the machine by hand instead of automatically, Mr Ash talks about the satisfaction of the job, 1.43 mins
Track 8: Mr Ash explains how he can tell the state of the machine by the quality of the work; Charles Parker asks whether he feels men are sometimes overloaded in the same way machines are overloaded, 1.13 mins
Track 9: a man says that machines are better now than they used to be, the new cutting machines have angled instead of straight teeth, he talks about men preferring to grind their own tools, he talks about his apprentice and how he is trained, 2.14 mins
Track 10: he says that he can tell whether a man is used to the job, apprentices need to have the feeling for the job, 1.26 mins
Total: 15.43 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0107480 |