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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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    mapj1:

    No test kit ? not even an indicator lamp for live or bell and battery set for continuity ?

    But of course,  two hammers, ah, in some ways  little has changed, plenty of folk still use hammer to get the electrons to go the right way.



    Being an electrical apprentice in Stewarts and Lloyds - the Scottish steel industry, we made our own from thick tufnol sheet, drilled to accept 2 series connected lampholders with 240V, RS pygmy lamps for up to 440 Volts. The 2 test prods were rubber flexible cables, tufnol tubes and brass prods, the cables were soldered into drilled holes in the prods for handles; we took pride in the making of these. As apprentices we moved around the 8 off DC and AC steel plants of Stewarts and Lloyds in Scotland, and for a 5 year apprenticeship!. The first time I came across a fused, Line and Neutral office supply and had to find out!


    Jaymack
     

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    mapj1:

    No test kit ? not even an indicator lamp for live or bell and battery set for continuity ?

    But of course,  two hammers, ah, in some ways  little has changed, plenty of folk still use hammer to get the electrons to go the right way.



    Being an electrical apprentice in Stewarts and Lloyds - the Scottish steel industry, we made our own from thick tufnol sheet, drilled to accept 2 series connected lampholders with 240V, RS pygmy lamps for up to 440 Volts. The 2 test prods were rubber flexible cables, tufnol tubes and brass prods, the cables were soldered into drilled holes in the prods for handles; we took pride in the making of these. As apprentices we moved around the 8 off DC and AC steel plants of Stewarts and Lloyds in Scotland, and for a 5 year apprenticeship!. The first time I came across a fused, Line and Neutral office supply and had to find out!


    Jaymack
     

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