4276 RIVETS A DAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 253, 13 July 1918, Page 8

4276 RIVETS A DAY

. RECOKI'-BEE.AKTNG WAT IN ENG- : LISH SHIPYARD. The United States riveting record made ! by Charles Rchock, who at Baltimore ; drove in 2720 rivets in nine hours, hae i. been easily beaten in London. Tho workmon of Messrs. I'rnscr and \ Fraser, engineers and bnilormakors, of Bromley-by-Bow. asked their manage-. . ment to give them an opportunity of 1 bratin ,7 the American record, and the ; effort was made bv a selected squad. n the riveter was Robert Farrant, a dark, slim clean-shaven man of mighty muscle, 31 years of atje, and one of a ', family of eighteen whose father, ased li 7 is' still a riveter in the same yard. ' Starting at 8. SO a.m., with half an l hour fo/brrakfnst and an hour for dinner, ho worked till 5 p.m., with a 231h pneumatic tool in riveting a number of steel tanks. Four "carriers" ran constantlv to and fro with white-hot rivets I from 'three furnaces a few yards away. Thov slipped the rivets into tho holes, r and'as fasl m> rhpy Mild bring them Farrant drove thorn homo. Repeatedly Ihe shouted'for ninrf. There w«re oight- ' second roars of lightning hnmmpvmiras S the piston of the pneumatic tool rattled ,; awny at tho rale of 1000 blows to the ; m ln"ide the tanks two men, Pnytor, and ' Baxter, took turns with the ' holding- ' up" tools-blnnl metal '™>™.™ej>tj ' fl-hi-h are messed ncamst the white-hot l ' rivets as the riveter hammers them hf The yard sot out to do 28.10 rivets in nine hour? so as to beat tho American , KpThnl F.rrant pns.ed that total in eix hours. Going on. he hammered in i'lß rivets in the nine hours, nn average ' of 475 ni. hnnr.or mm mot w "7 H wennds. This is claimed to bo wmlv a world's rpconl. "A normal day s work j is 1010 to 12IW rivets in 01 hours, said an authority. Jt the finish the Wind nypivi>rl an { ovftMnn from their Mhw-wmr*. Farrant. looked n< fresh nt the finish as a ' tho start Members ff Hip Ministry nf t I Munitions nnd other Government D°i partments were present.