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Post by delaplume on Jan 4, 2019 2:49:32 GMT
Hello everyone, Have just found this and thought you might be interested ?? -------------> ---------> youtu.be/3_vDBjhOfUw |
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Post by suctionhose on Jan 4, 2019 10:14:42 GMT
Good job lads! Those glands have never blown better...!
Actually, Mr Wardale's Book is a treasure. Not an easy read due to commercial realities of small type on many pages. It was never going to sell like Harry Potter.
However, I have read it word by word and found SO MANY parallels with my life in industry... I saved odd paragraphs to refer to from time to time. Kinda like psalms in the Bible.
Mr Wardale's experience in SA is a magnificent study of the "human condition". Steam Engines and 'intelligence' in the day were not always synonymous. In fact, the great strength the steam engine brought to the world is that the uneducated could keep it going in the most unsophisticated circumstances. I have personally witnessed this in South America where diesels have replaced steam only to be withdrawn several times on account of technical issues.
To make the steam locomotive more sophisticated, more complex, more efficient comes at the expense of the people that want to work in those conditions. Mr Wardale makes this case in his book. "To drive the necessary change required a total cultural change. New uniforms. New building. Different mission statement. New employees."
Very interesting philosophically and technically.
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