Feel free…
To point out the differences in working practices over the decades.
The on-site jobsworth H&S bod would be blowing a valve if that happened on his watch 
This may be 2019 but sights like that are common across Europe, builders, road workers and machine ops working quite safely without the need for enforced H&S.
Gotta…
Love the bloke who’s doing a days graft in his best suit and tie. 
The problem is, will you accept 1957 levels of wages for the work, and 1957 levels of compensation for injury?
That said, the vast majority of “H&S” nonsense arises because bosses insist on continuing to use fundamentally unsafe practices, imposing hothouse conditions that make it challenging for people to communicate or coordinate properly, or the lack of industry standards on equipments and methods.
yourhavingalarf:
Gotta…Love the bloke who’s doing a days graft in his best suit and tie.
It was common in the past for workers to dress and look after themselves better as a sign of their own dignity, bearing in mind most had wives to do the washing and ironing of such elaborate clothing for them, and almost all men had done some sort of service in the armed forces (and younger men in 1957 will have been around older men who had served in the war, and would probably have done national service).
It’s not exclusively related to service in the forces however. Iirc it’s recorded since the 1700s that workers have generally been expected to dress in a decent white shirt when working, albeit it might not be bright white or washed daily. Agricultural labourers, for example, would generally dress in a white shirt. It was a sign of keeping basic standards.
It’s also worth nothing that many aspects of dress that now seem particularly formal - buttoned shirts, collars, cuffs, ties, belts, etc. - used to have an essential function in the days before elastic and zips and so on. Waistcoats, which nowadays seem exceptionally formal, were worn as a layer of insulation against cold.
The fella in the dress suit and tie (on the work train?), judging by comparison with the rest, might have been a member of staff who was just helping out rather than stand around, or else perhaps he’d over-dressed for the camera.
Rjan:
yourhavingalarf:
Gotta…Love the bloke who’s doing a days graft in his best suit and tie.
It was common in the past for workers to dress and look after themselves better as a sign of their own dignity, bearing in mind most had wives to do the washing and ironing of such elaborate clothing for them, and almost all men had done some sort of service in the armed forces (and younger men in 1957 will have been around older men who had served in the war, and would probably have done national service).
It’s not exclusively related to service in the forces however. Iirc it’s recorded since the 1700s that workers have generally been expected to dress in a decent white shirt when working, albeit it might not be bright white or washed daily. Agricultural labourers, for example, would generally dress in a white shirt. It was a sign of keeping basic standards.
It’s also worth nothing that many aspects of dress that now seem particularly formal - buttoned shirts, collars, cuffs, ties, belts, etc. - used to have an essential function in the days before elastic and zips and so on. Waistcoats, which nowadays seem exceptionally formal, were worn as a layer of insulation against cold.
The fella in the dress suit and tie (on the work train?), judging by comparison with the rest, might have been a member of staff who was just helping out rather than stand around, or else perhaps he’d over-dressed for the camera.
Micheal Caine made a dvd documentary called ‘My Generation’ worth a watch, he explains the fashion culture change as the youth discarded the British stiff upper lip attitude.
The first few minutes went again H&S
Mixing Steam with Electric
Wheel Nut:
Mixing Steam with Electric
That’s what i couldn’t figure - did they have to make the lines high enough so a passing steam train funnel wouldn’t hit it? Pantograph seems to have to go really high.
trevHCS:
Wheel Nut:
Mixing Steam with ElectricThat’s what i couldn’t figure - did they have to make the lines high enough so a passing steam train funnel wouldn’t hit it? Pantograph seems to have to go really high.
It’s more the other way around, they have to make the lines low enough to go under bridges and tunnels and so on whilst fitting them as high as possible.
Another…
H&S howler
youtube.com/watch?v=o4claek3eAw
3 minutes 28 seconds in. Let’s put a great big digger on a slope right by the main line with trains roaring past at 80mph.
What could possibly go wrong?