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 Post subject: Portrait of an engineer 1954
PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:37 pm 

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Found this on another site. Great video from 1954.

Portrait of an Engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3AX3K_d5o


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:56 am 

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Yes I rather enjoy that one as it focuses on a very overlooked but important person in the industry, the engineer. (no not THAT engineer, this is the guy who designs the trains!)

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 Post subject: Re: Portrait of an engineer 1954
PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:33 pm 

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Rick Rowlands wrote:
Yes I rather enjoy that one as it focuses on a very overlooked but important person in the industry, the engineer. (no not THAT engineer, this is the guy who designs the trains!)


Yes, it must be tough on the designers. They never get any of the publicity the train engineer gets.


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 Post subject: Re: Portrait of an engineer 1954
PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:48 pm 

Everyone in that shop probably hated Ted, he just walked through the shop micromanaging every department. My favorite part was when he was on the ladder while the boiler was being tested and safety valve lifts. Ted is mostly deaf now too.


  
 
 Post subject: Re: Portrait of an engineer 1954
PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:54 pm 

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Ouch! Have you worked with a "Ted" at some point in your life?


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:07 pm 

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There's a big difference between seagull, putting-out-fires micromanaging and this, which is more 'management by walking around'. He keeps in touch with the staff, small and great, each day; he attends to every division in rotation (and is familiar with the details of their goings-on, from experience); he gives encouragement rather than 'correction'; when something is wrong he gets right to the fix, not who might have been to blame for the situation.

Much of this film, of course, is a dog-and-pony show for the cameras. But he strikes me as being an admirable person for the indicated job. I found it particularly refreshing that he showed an open mind toward the foreign students who, even then, were coming to Britain to learn how the trick was supposed to be done.

Note the greatest of all Vulcan achievements, twice (at 1:31 to 1:36 and 15:19 to 15:25 in two different significant contexts -- Cantlie's design from the early Thirties, I believe. Strange that they'd be reviewing this in the design office in 1954, a half-decade after 'return business' with China might be impaired...

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