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Tool kit 1956

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The NJIC rule requirements for an electrician's kit of tools in 1962 (unchanged from 1956) was:


Ratchet Brace and set of bits

Large screwdriver and one small

2 pairs of cutting pliers

2ft or 3ft rule

Adjustable hacksaw frame

Pair of 7-in Footprints and 1 pair 9-in ditto

Bradawl

Wood chisel

Pad saw

2 Hammers

Plumb bob and line

Knife

Spirit level

Tenon saw

Centre Punch

Wheel brace

Pair side cutters

Set of spanners 1/8" to 1/2" Whitworth

Set of box spanners 1/8" to 3/4" Whitworth

Adjustable tap wrench

Miniature 6-in hacksaw frame

2 cold chisels, small and large, or (where appropriate) 1 cold chisel and 1 tonguing chisel


I have the wage rates for 1962 of 6/4 1/2d (now 32p) an hour with an apprentice at 15 on 20% of this, at 16 on 25%, at 17 on 30%. at 18 on 45%, at 19 on 60%, at 20 72.5%......


Sometime, I'll price the tools up from contemporary catalogues and in the meantime, have a think about how many weeks it would take to buy the tools!


Regards


BOD

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    Looks about right for the tools I used at that time. I started as an apprentice for EEB and to their new 'prison camp' at Harold on the Hill in 1962 complete with rail travel warrants and digs (I wonder what happened to Geoff Palmer I lodged with?)

    There we did wonderful things like filing a piece of metal flat but like everything there, it had a sort of use as later a few holes had been drilled of different sizes to produce a drill gauge. Then there was a set of ‘footprints’, a spanner, a hole punch etc. We ended up even making a cantilever tool box but the bottom rusted away about 20 years ago for some reason.



    After about a year most went home but I got sent to the cable jointing school at Shoeburyness for some reason for a month before being released, going home and let loose to be ‘trained’ by a select group of ‘sparks’.



    I suppose the biggest memory was Freddie Finch actually getting over £10 in his wage packet with overtime just using a hammer, a screwdriver and pair of pliers. He did have other tools but I never saw them get used! That was about 1965.


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    Looks about right for the tools I used at that time. I started as an apprentice for EEB and to their new 'prison camp' at Harold on the Hill in 1962 complete with rail travel warrants and digs (I wonder what happened to Geoff Palmer I lodged with?)

    There we did wonderful things like filing a piece of metal flat but like everything there, it had a sort of use as later a few holes had been drilled of different sizes to produce a drill gauge. Then there was a set of ‘footprints’, a spanner, a hole punch etc. We ended up even making a cantilever tool box but the bottom rusted away about 20 years ago for some reason.



    After about a year most went home but I got sent to the cable jointing school at Shoeburyness for some reason for a month before being released, going home and let loose to be ‘trained’ by a select group of ‘sparks’.



    I suppose the biggest memory was Freddie Finch actually getting over £10 in his wage packet with overtime just using a hammer, a screwdriver and pair of pliers. He did have other tools but I never saw them get used! That was about 1965.


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