QUIET WORK
NO MORE BANGING OF RIVETS WHEN SHIPBUILDING. London, Saturday. The clang of riveting is heard in scarcely a single British shipyard nowadays, owing to the general employment of a new process permitting of the electrical welding of steel plates placed edge to edge. A workman, with a single instrument v/eighing about 8oz., joins them as strongly as a riveter's gang. Tho speed with which ships can be built has been enormously increased though far fewer men are employed. Experts are experimenting with X rays and radium in the. detection of faulty welding work. A director of Harland and Wolff declares that reports that electrically welded ships lack the rigidity of riveted ships is absurd, and that rigidity is a question of design. Trade unions and shipbuilders are conferring to discuss the labour situation created by , the dismissal of riveters.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 574, 4 July 1933, Page 5
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141QUIET WORK Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 574, 4 July 1933, Page 5
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