At 12:32 PM 7/3/2009, Roger Whittaker wrote: >in the old days a vehicle required 1 hour of service for every 8 hours of I distinctly remember reading -- I'd swear it was in the 1917 Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (the same ASME that wrote the specs for our Westy propane tanks) -- that modern trucks were capable of delivering almost fifty miles to a gallon of lube oil! Maybe it was a misprint. That issue, about three inches thick, was primarily devoted to the manufacture of explosive shells for the war, including an operation-by-operation description of how one manufacturer did it with locally-adapted machinery and what the precise modifications were; but it also had an article about industrial safety, and quoted numbers for Massachusetts in 1915. On a population of about four million, MA had (can't remember the number) industrial fatalities including 123 drownings and a couple dozen people killed "skylarking" and another couple dozen in fights -- and almost two hundred thousand injuries, about half of them hand and eye injuries. MA was a textile center at the time, and many of the hand injuries were from picking lint off the looms while they were still running. [/non sequitur]
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