Some of the Specialized Equipment available at the Morse Dry Dock & Repair Company
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Some of the Specialized Equipment available at the Morse Dry Dock & Repair Company
Edward P. Morse: Maintaining Ships and Dividends, page 18
Note by ICS, 30 September 2013
Re the “portable boring mill reboring stern tube in place“: Note the flat belt drive powering the portable
boring mill – the power source, driving this flat belt, is located below the temporary staging that the
workmen are standing on. This being the 1920s, the power source probably was a portable steam engine.
The men are wearing clothing with long loose sleeves, working in close proximity to moving parts,
especially the fast-moving flat belt, that today would be considered (correctly) to be an extreme
hazard not to be tolerated in any workplace – but in the 1920s (and continuing into the 1940s and
even the 1960s) this sort of workplace hazard was taken for granted everywhere in North America.