Wood Goes to War - making a No 4s woodwork
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 7:41 pm
http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=1509&sea ... _fuzzy=yes
This clip was found by a poster on the American Gunboards forum; I thought I'd share it here. Its quite a long silent movie of a Scottish furniture manufacturer H. Morris & Co who have gone over to the production of the woodwork for the Lee Enfield No. 4 (and some p14s?). Fascinating especially if you own a No. 4.
I was horrified to see the industrial accident waiting to happen to the bloke moving the trolley full of wood and amused to see that the guy cutting the blanks has lost his index finger at some stage! Noteworthy that most of the workers are older men and women.
Well worth the 15 minutes or so.
M
This clip was found by a poster on the American Gunboards forum; I thought I'd share it here. Its quite a long silent movie of a Scottish furniture manufacturer H. Morris & Co who have gone over to the production of the woodwork for the Lee Enfield No. 4 (and some p14s?). Fascinating especially if you own a No. 4.
I was horrified to see the industrial accident waiting to happen to the bloke moving the trolley full of wood and amused to see that the guy cutting the blanks has lost his index finger at some stage! Noteworthy that most of the workers are older men and women.
Well worth the 15 minutes or so.
M