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[pmcgee]

I think we'll be able to add to this over time.

You don't see this every day ... http://www.proxibid.com/asp/catalogprint.asp?aid=24718

Just in so far as looking at the saws(!) ... the makers ...

eg this little item ...

Lot# 267 SOLD

Saw Hand Saw, Woodrough McParlin, Steel Blade w/Fancy Hardwood Handle w/a Carved Panther head on each edge over the blade, Few Nicks, Cracked Handle, Some Rust

[pmcgee]

Woah ... Monumental Estate Auction - Northgate Gallery


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[IanW]

Didn't know you had a choice of gender wid planes:

"Lot# 2 SOLD

Planes

6 Planes, All Wood Handles and Balls, ........"

Cheers,

[pmcgee]

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I know it isn't "turned up to 11" ... but I like this very much. You could hang saws in that, you could.
Make a lovely tool-chest.
(Looks at estimate ... )

[pmcgee]

Feel better about your tool collecting ...

http://www.invaluable.com/catalog/se...Ref=ZFNYP449MY

[pmcgee]

There were three less common saws auctioned on ebay today ... none heading my way ...

a Holroyd,
a Wheeler, Madden & Clemson with Holden-pattern handle,
and a Woodrough & McParlin Panther saw !!

Cheers,
Paul

Warranted Superior SAW | eBay
Vintage Wheeler Madden Clemson XLCR 10 Hand SAW 10 PPI VG Condition | eBay
Panther SAW | eBay

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[pmcgee]

Midland Railway Workshop. Say No More!
Ross's Auctioneers & Valuers :: Welcome

no pics up yet

[Vann]

Have they recently closed the foundry, or the entire workshops?

Sadly, Vann.

[seanz]

pmcgee, the pics are up now. The blacksmith tools are nice.......but bit sad really to see all of those patterns going.

[pmcgee]

Midland Railway Workshops


The Midland Railway Workshops ran for close to a century on the Eastern fringe of Perth, Western Australia. Large and multifaceted, the Workshops were vital to the development and maintenance of the WA rail system, and a crucial training ground for skilled tradespeople. Their closure in 1994 brought to an end not only a specific industrial complex but also a complex social community. Despite the harsh, dirty and often dangerous working conditions, many thousands of former workers regretted the loss of the traditions, camraderie and pride in workmanship that characterised their Midland working lives. This website aims to provide an insight into the life of the Midland Railway Workshops.

Midland Workshops

[Vann]

Interesting. I started at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops (in south Auckland) in 1973. At that time there were ~850 employees on site, although it was said there were 2400 immediately after WW2. I was one of ~62 apprentices that started on 23 January that year. NZR had four other major workshops at the time, so around 300 apprentices would have started on the Railway, around the country that year. All bar one of those workshops are now closed (and the remaining one is a shadow of it's former self). In January this year I was one of just four of those 300 new boys left to celebrate 40 years service - and I no longer work at my trade (I now drive suburban trains).

So I feel very sad when I see our industrial heritage (or yours) scrapped.

At one stage in my career, during the 1990s, I oversaw four carriages being overhauled at the Naval Dockyards in Devonport, Auckland (shortly after the closure of the Otahuhu Workshops). They still retained many of the old trades such as rope splicers, blacksmiths, etc. However I believe they too have now been gutted.

Sorry, off topic.

Cheers, Vann.

[pmcgee]

"Most employees at the Midland Workshops looked forward to a permanent position, which they would quit only upon retirement at 65. This changed to some extent in the 1970s, when the mineral boom provided alternative higher paid, but less secure, employment. Nevertheless, most apprentices embarked upon their training with a view to gaining skills that would keep them in secure jobs through their working lives.

This was to change, firstly with the severe reduction in apprentice intakes and downsizing of the workforce – from 2258 in 1972 to 836 in 1992 – and then with the announcement of the closure. Widespread community outrage greeted the State Government’s decision to close the Workshops, but extensive protests were to no avail and the gates shut for the last time in March 1994 – just over 90 years after they first opened."

[pmcgee]

I apologise in advance - I know many of you find Jarrah boring - certainly we are completely over it over here in the West.


We are auctioning off a few little benches ... might put a bit of a hole in the WIP (workbench) thread if the WA community leaps on some of this stuff ...

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The top on this bench is 4" thick roughly ... so many long benches and the character marks of time ...

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[pmcgee]

BobL provided navigation skills ... and works as a scale-marker

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This bench had 'dog-holes' ... more like 'hardy-holes'

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[pmcgee]

Some random items ...

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and some of the piles ...

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