by Hornbeam » Tue Mar 01, 2022 5:51 pm
It is indeed the Furness Basin Ron M with the Heavy Lift Crane on the right hand side of the photograph which was outside the Fitting Shop, B&W Diesel Engines came from Harland & Wolff in Northern Ireland by Ship, the Engines had been made, built and test run by H&W then stripped down to manageable size chunks and shipped to the Furness Yard where they were offloaded and then loaded in the correct sequence on to the Newbuild alongside all done under the Supervision of the H&W Guarantee Engineer.
Whilst the most of the Yard were on Piecework (except Apprentices) the Main Engine rebuild Squad (Furness Employees) were under a Contract system which meant that they worked out and put in a costing which had to be accepted by the Company to rebuild the engine which they drew off every week, at the end of the rebuild any monies that were left in the Pot were shared out as a Bonus Payment amongst the Squad. Ron@?