I was casting doubt on the quality of an electrical installation today, when I enquired where the main fuse is the lady customer told me that it’s in an inaccessible location, adding “I think it’s a Whitworth fuse”.
All of the machinary I worked with during my 26 years employment was either BSF or BSW. Forging presses, drop stamps, old Vaughn 10 ton overhead cranes on bare copper trolley wires, Pangbourne shotblast machines, the lot!
I remember the company got some kind of grant from the Govt of the day to buy metric tools for the lads when we went metric. We - the lads - never saw a bean out of it, so where the money went I've no idea. As for test kit, I was issued with a BC lampholder, a 15w pigmy lamp and a foot of twin twisted bell wire - Tha'll be reet with that lad' as the gaffer sent me off to fault find on a 3 phase 440v Butler horizontal planing m/c!
All of the machinary I worked with during my 26 years employment was either BSF or BSW. Forging presses, drop stamps, old Vaughn 10 ton overhead cranes on bare copper trolley wires, Pangbourne shotblast machines, the lot!
I remember the company got some kind of grant from the Govt of the day to buy metric tools for the lads when we went metric. We - the lads - never saw a bean out of it, so where the money went I've no idea. As for test kit, I was issued with a BC lampholder, a 15w pigmy lamp and a foot of twin twisted bell wire - Tha'll be reet with that lad' as the gaffer sent me off to fault find on a 3 phase 440v Butler horizontal planing m/c!
