Looking at this photo I would like to point out that on the left hand side you can see the sand hoppers that were fed by a conver belt running across the top which was fed from the sand mill which was about 3/4 of the way down on the right hand side of the picture. The mill was opposite the apprentice moulding bay and was manned by a man called Joe Brown.
He was required to make wet facing sand which was yellow in colour or black backing sand.
I agree ken, Iron moulders worked to a very high level of skill, My Father, Bill Cook was chief moulder for Dorman Long, Middlesborough. He always came home tired and coughing from the silica in the moulding sand. I remember going to Dormans to see him working and the dust, fumes and terrible working conditions shocked me.Harry Cook worked in the pattern makers shop next door,A much cleaner working enviorenment, another very skilled job.I can not imagine anyone being able to reach that level of skills these days.I think it is important to keep these memories alive and enjoy reading these contributions.
This is part of the Head Wrightsons Steel Foundry at Oxbridge Stockton.It shows one of the moulding bays with the moulders making sand moulds ready for casting with either carbon or manganese steel.In the forground wooden patterns and core boxes ready for the moulders and coremakers to make in special moulding and coremaking sand.In the middle of the picture stands the late Les Wilkinson Foundry foreman a great moulder and friend who died to young. Sand moulding was and I suppose still is one of the most skilled crafts going and its a great pity tha a lot of foundries have fell by the wayside.
Foundry Moulding Bay.
Looking at this photo I would like to point out that on the left hand side you can see the sand hoppers that were fed by a conver belt running across the top which was fed from the sand mill which was about 3/4 of the way down on the right hand side of the picture. The mill was opposite the apprentice moulding bay and was manned by a man called Joe Brown.
He was required to make wet facing sand which was yellow in colour or black backing sand.
I agree ken, Iron moulders worked to a very high level of skill, My Father, Bill Cook was chief moulder for Dorman Long, Middlesborough. He always came home tired and coughing from the silica in the moulding sand. I remember going to Dormans to see him working and the dust, fumes and terrible working conditions shocked me.Harry Cook worked in the pattern makers shop next door,A much cleaner working enviorenment, another very skilled job.I can not imagine anyone being able to reach that level of skills these days.I think it is important to keep these memories alive and enjoy reading these contributions.
This is part of the Head Wrightsons Steel Foundry at Oxbridge Stockton.It shows one of the moulding bays with the moulders making sand moulds ready for casting with either carbon or manganese steel.In the forground wooden patterns and core boxes ready for the moulders and coremakers to make in special moulding and coremaking sand.In the middle of the picture stands the late Les Wilkinson Foundry foreman a great moulder and friend who died to young. Sand moulding was and I suppose still is one of the most skilled crafts going and its a great pity tha a lot of foundries have fell by the wayside.