Looks like it might have been a Mark IV, I had a 3.4, 3.8S sedans and a XK120 roadster.
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A different kind of machine, this is a 'charging machine' at the US Steel Fairless Hills Mill. My first real job, 6 month co-op job in the maintenence division. Scan of Polaroid I took in 1964. The machine is used dump ingredients into open hearth furnace. It has a big long arm that lifts tubs of material up and then inserts it into the furnace. The cab you see move in and out with the arm, while the machine moves left and right on the tracks. You can't make steel with out scrap steel and pig iron. Molten steel pours out of the bottom of the back side into a giant ladle. The ladle is then lifted up and positioned over empty ingot molds. A guy walks along the pouring platform with a control from the overhead crane which lifts a stopper to let the molten steel pour into the molds. When the valve jams, all hell breaks loose, that's another story. Don't ask me how they made the first steel! Kind of like the chicken and the egg.
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American Electric Power station near where I live.
I've had 20-25 clients that worked in the steel mills in NW Indiana. That is a seriously dangerous job no matter how many safeguards are put into place. I have the utmost respect for you and everyone that does that work.
It was dangerous, but I was young and foolish. I almost got run over by that machine, my boss pushed me out of the way. I use to like to stand on the pouring floor next to the furnace and watch the steel fill the ladles. I wore fire retardant clothes, one day they made too much steel, as they filled the ladle, slag started overflow. The slag was a dull red, still hot, but soon white hot molten steel started to overflow, incredibly hot, my clothes started to smoke, had to hide behind a steel column.
Another Polaroid from US Steel. A welder in the weld shop.
Some of those clients had severe PTSD because of seeing friends get killed by the machines or molten steel.
We are all glad that you got smart and are able to be here now.
I was studying electrical engineering because my father and brother were EE's. After my freshman year, Northeastern had a co-op program, they got me the job in the mill. When I got back, I hated my sophomore year. Dropped out and got a summer job in a professional photo studio, then applied and went to RIT in Photo Science. Not nearly as dangerous!
The reason I shot the pictures on a Polaroid camera was, we weren't allowed to have personal cameras in the mill, but the maintenance department had their own Polaroid.
Another picture from the Battelle Darby Creek Park
Whoa! I almost fell over to my left side. Good thing this was just a picture.
watch out for any kitties when you fall 🙀 don't want to hurt them 🙀Whoa! I almost fell over to my left side. Good thing this was just a picture.
out inspecting the poles of a new 500kV line near Lake Toba, Sumatra in 1990
