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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Highbridge Works was opened by the Somerset and Dorset Railway in 1562. The buildings were added rather haphazardly and the factory was re- organised by the locomotive superintendent Alfred Whitaker in the 1890s when a stores and paint shop were built. Workshop doors were painted cream and light brown window frames were also this latter colour while the interior walls were white-washed. The locomotive works are seen in a transitional period Plate 3 (taken circa 1895) with the new boiler-shop coppersmiths’ shop and foundry building almost ready for occupation. The buildings left to right are: the messroom (the small lean-to at its side housed a solid-tyred wheel stretcher the only official first aid equipment at the works) the sheer legs with a tender sus pended beneath it; the old wooden boiler-shop with boilersmiths’ forge chim- ney at the right. Behind these a block contained the superintendent’s drawing and general offices brass and iron foundry springsmiths forges and case hardening furnace blacksmiths’ forge steam hammer and the machine shop with lathes drilling shaping lapping grinding and screw cutting machines. The darker structure with end-to-end roof lights was the erecting shop. The paler building not completed had not yet been brought into full use as boilershop coppersmiths shop and foundry. (LL)