British Manufacturing Industries Volume 14.cG Phillips Bevan
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Author: G Phillips Bevan
Number of Pages: 54 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130984934
File Name: British.Manufacturing.Industries.Volume.14.pdf
Download Link: British Manufacturing Industries Volume 14
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...by hand; but it has been subsequently so much improved, that by its means a woman can "close" a pair of navvy's boots weighing 7 or 8 Ibs. per pair, and with soles three-quarters of an inch thick. The "maker," who in old days was represented by the cobbler with his awl and waxed thread, is now frequently supplemented by the riveter, who has a boy to help him. The "finisher" takes the boot in its rough state, and fastening it upon his knee, uses a burnishing iron to it, an operation called "staking." "Clickers" and " trenchers" are men who cut out, in different modes, the material for the upper leathers, which, in the case of an ordinary elastic boot, is composed of six different pieces; and the test of a clever clicker is, to cut them out with the least possible waste of material. It is probable that very sweeping changes will ere long be made in the boot trade; for new machinery is constantly appearing, which must necessarily alter the old state of things. At a factory in Newcastleunder-Lyme, the whole of the boot is made in this way, and to a very large extent by women, who, by various ingenious machines, close the uppers, sew on the welts and insoles, "last" the boots at the rate of one hundred and fifty pairs a day, and tack on and stitch the soles. Bootmaking is not usually considered a healthy occupation, although it is more so than tailoring. Factory work is for obvious reasons better than "garret" work, where the evils of crowding and want of ventilation are sure to be felt; but where hand work is carried on, the sedentary occupation and the constrained position tell hardly against a good many. The riveters are said to suffer from nervous affections, from the noise cause...
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