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Seems like being sensible doesn’t matter anymore. I always loved looking out of the windows wherever I was, that would include Britain, Germany, Japan, China and Brazil! Always so much to see….

Fully agree Mike, as someone who recently spent three months in a wheelchair and needed a strong “pusher“ to get me to the Dr’s. I think the problem is global although I think that most are trying to remedy that. It will take a long time before much is remedied.

Very nice approach! How far over budget does the project expect to be and how late, does anyone know?

Such a depressing thread, all of those wonderful pubs closing down! There were the center of life for many of us!

That is a wonderful story, closing a link all those miles (km) away!

The scope and use of slag and it derivatives continued to expand and its value continued to increase. If you Google/Wikipedia slag you will see all you need to know unless you are a ChemE or metallurgist.

Slag from blast furnaces was used to balance the soil to make it suitable for certain crops. It allows soils to become more productive and easily blends with the soil naturally. Soils can be conditioned also by certain crops while still being productive, it’s a level of chemistry that I am aware...

I think most of that was also true in the 50’s, my question now with all of th3 so called controls/rules is it any better?

The diesel generator/sets used on that ship and the related controls are very advanced for the time! I say this from my almost 10 years at Cummins who currently a global leader in power generation. I wonder why GEC did not leverage their technology which included controls?

A lot of pride there. So sad it all disappeared!

That I believe that was the crux of it, and yes the golden handshakes or parachutes are there. Much the same as in GE in the US. Jack Welch hand picked Jeff Imelt to replace him and it did not work, and yet the Board kept him in place until he ran it completely into the ground and they had to...

I think that Lucas’s quality was not good, also they tried to get into some other areas as technology shifted and it did not work well. This was the same Bosch in the early days of fuel injection, either throttle body or high pressure injection, but they hung on and made it work. If you look at...

Alan I was an engineering apprentice at Brooke Tool about three years ahead of you, I am 82. My apprenticeship held me in good stead throughout my career, as they say moving along the corporate ladder. It seems that GE(USA) met the same fate as GEC, albeit a few years later. Once mighty...

Welcome to the BHF Les, a really good place with great folks & information, enjoy!

Such a charming street on one side and on the other, ugh!

Scary!

Where did the iron ore come from for all of these castings made in Birmingham?

Is that where Bywaters(sp) used to be?

Yes, for sure you would be a target!

I am 82 so I understand, as do many what you say about naive teenagers, we thought we knew so much at that time of our life. It was what we didn’t know was the problem.