
Melville-Brodie Retired Engineers Club - Meeting 19 February 2014
Specifications
- Kirkcaldy and district, Fife
- Fieldworker: Margaret Bennett & Chris Miles
- Audio Format: wav files, Digital mic, Ediro
- Transcribed: Hazel Cameron
- Publication: They Taught Us Skills for Life: We Are the Engineers! 2015.
- Date: Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Organisation
Melville Brodie Retired Engineers ClubTape 01
Bell foundries - strickle method
Process of making bell
Different bells cast for every musical note
Lettering stamped in to mold
Using Lathe
Track 02
Metal for making bells - bell bronze
Bells cracked; Casting from old bells
Banjos - hoop made of bell bronze
Track 03
Fishing at Dunkeld
Angling Club
Track 04
Croft & Poachers
Home guard
Track 05
Skilled workers with other dimensions
Track 06
Memorial underway
Funding
Installing column
Involvement of young people; Fife college
Making of plaque
Machines for Nairns
Apprentices from MB all over the world
Unveiling
Booklet production
Track 07
Flour for marking in Foundry
Mice/Rats
Track 08
Booklet details
Track 09
Costs and printing of booklet
Workers Education Association
Launch event
Track 10
Songs for even
Track 11
Foundry Poems
Acquiring tools
List of foundry tools
Makers of tools
Sleeking
Small foundry in garage
Motorbike parts
Affectionate memories
Camaraderie
Rammers
Hand Riddling
Gaggers and Hangers
CO2 gas with sand
The Twa dugs
Pride in work
Track 12
Miners Union fought to get bogies checked
Servicing Fire extinguishers
Motor garage in Kirkcaldy
Camaraderie with apprentices 1960 strike
Newspaper report
Track 13
Shutdown period for maintenance
German lads fitting bearings and shafts
Final installation and fitting checked by German installers
Tollerances
Foundry moulders not so precise
Castings from a sand mould
Machining cast surface loses strength
Track 14
The Gaffer’s job
Leech’s Foundry, Kirkcaldy not machined
Scrap Lorries checked by gaffer
Track 15
Sheep branding iron
Local blacksmiths
Track 17
There’s engineering songs
Peggy Seeger
Track 18
Forth Rail bridge crane bought by Melville Brodie
Tay rail bridge faults in casting
Edinburgh Museum - Watt Steam Engine
Tramlines in coal mines
Railway line sleepers
Tent pegs with old slats
Lingnum Vitae wood
Whale Oil
Whale Bone Walk, Kirkcaldy
Track 19
Making hooks for butchers
Working bunnet/Going hame bunnet
Sharpening knives
Rosin for fiddles, used in bells
Axe Grinder