Summary

Footage Information

British Pathé
QUEER JOBS
Titles read: Queer Jobs! Filmed at Swindon

Swindon, Wiltshire

Various shots of railway employees with strange job titles at work 'Boshmen' clean the grease off locomotive parts A 'Hair Carder' prepares the hair for a railway carriage upholster, who stuffs a seat back with the hair - he is known as a 'Trimmer' The 'Clothier' applies heatproof plaster to an engine boiler

Brief shot of showgirls putting on their coats backstage; cut to a 'Dresser' who shapes castings with a hammer and chisel The 'Shingler' controls a giant hammer that beats out red hot metal The 'Pull-up Boy' opens the furnace door for white hot bars to be taken to the 'Roughers', who pull the metal through rollers

The 'Puncher' punches rivet holes in metal sheets and the 'Holder Up' holds up the heads of red-hot rivets for the riveters The 'Saw Doctor' makes sure the saw is fit for work The 'Hooker On' hooks things onto the crane, and the 'Stripper' dismantles machinery

Very good for shots of workers in 1930's heavy industry (Steel works, boiler makers etc)
British Pathe
01/01/1934
00:02:15:00
Black & White
Sound
110607

Keywords

Swindon Wiltshire railways work quirky crafts industrial processes steel industry
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