Yard trainees made own tools
He said: “It was a terrific system they had for breaking the lads in. ”. Charles Rowntree, from Kirkby, said: “It is a scraper for scraping metal off brass and white-metal bearings to ensure that they are a good fit for the journal – the shaft... At least a half-dozen readers had a near identical example in their tool box or garden shed – kept as a souvenir of an apprenticeship with Vickers. Colin Muncaster, of Victoria Road, Barrow, said: “The mystery tool is definitely a white metal bearing scraper. Michael Holmes, 75, remembered the training school where a hammer and chisel was issued and many other tools for various trades were made as test pieces. The wood-handled tool with no factory markings was made from an old half-round file. Bob Jackson made his scraper in 1965 from a file which was stamped ESC – standing for the English Steel Corporation.
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