YBAF
23rd Oct 2016, 07:36 PM
Three books that may be of interest...
"...Why scrap a perfectly good machine that was superbly made, lovingly maintained and for which the machine-makers still possessed a complete stock of all its parts? At least six engines in breweries which were installed before 1800 still worked a century later. How long these machines lasted was one of the finest tributes to British engineers and one of the worst indictments of British industrialists …"
British Technology in War — Quadrant Online (http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/09/british-technology-war/)
"...Why scrap a perfectly good machine that was superbly made, lovingly maintained and for which the machine-makers still possessed a complete stock of all its parts? At least six engines in breweries which were installed before 1800 still worked a century later. How long these machines lasted was one of the finest tributes to British engineers and one of the worst indictments of British industrialists …"
British Technology in War — Quadrant Online (http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2016/09/british-technology-war/)