"STEEL RIDE" STEEL, PEECH AND TOZER STEELWORKS PROMOTIONAL FILM YORKSHIRE ENGLAND 98714
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“Steel Ride” was produced by Wallace Productions Ltd in the 1960s. It is a promotional film about the Steel, Peech and Tozer steelworks in Yorkshire, England, which created wheels, axles, springs, and tires for locomotives. Steel, Peech and Tozer was a branch of United Steel Companies Ltd.
The film opens with a montage of trains passing in front of the camera, and then an external shot of the steelworks and its chimneys (0:53). Viewers see the interior of a melting shop, lined with furnaces as mobile chargers traverse the floor with loads of scraps to be reduced to molten steel. A charger puts a load into one of the furnaces and the fire ignites (1:13). A steelman wears protective glasses and gazes into a furnace as it shines brilliantly (1:36). Molten steel flows into a ladle, and the overflow slag flows into two separate ladles below. The ladle is carried to the teeming stage where molds are prepared (2:53). A steelman releases a lever and the molten steel flows into a mold. Steel runs through channels to the base of the molds, filling them upward.
A steelman creates equally spaced dividing lines on an ingot, then a magnet crane carries it to the breaker. The 15 inch diameter ingots are broken into precise blocks. The blocks roll off the breaker to feed the wheel and tire mills (5:17), and are pushed through a continuous furnace to be heated for forging. At the other end of the furnace, a charger grips a block and removes it (5:39). The charger removes mill scale that has formed on the surface.
A steelman works along the anvils, as a tire is taken away and a new block is placed in position under the ram of the forging press (6:28). The press squeezes the block, and excess scale is loosened and blown off by compressed air. The hole for the axle is made by pressing a punch through the wheel (7:17).
A steelman operates a charger, taking a newly reheated wheel out of the furnace and delivering it to the rolling mill (8:11). Water is sprayed to prevent any scale being rolled into the wheel (8:42). Once the wheel has been properly sized, it is shaped in a dishing press (9:48). A number of wheels lie in rows, cooling in the open air. Others are sent for heat treatment. The quenching process uses water sprays, which quickly reduces the temperature. A steelman conducts a trepanning operation, adding holes into the web of a wheel (12:02).
A magnet crane carries blooms from the rolling mills and charged to a continuous furnace. Once they are heated, they are removed at the other end of the furnace. A heated bloom is pushed out (13:59), and it is placed under a 7-ton hammer (14:27) The axle is taken out after one half is completed, and a steelman turns it so the other half can be forged (15:25). Forged axles roll into the furnace to be reheated. They drop into a quenching tank, filled with oil. As they emerge fire and smoke billows off of them (16:07).
The axles are cut and centered. Steelmen continue to work on axles of various sizes. Wheels are pressed on axles (19:38), and two steelmen roll two wheels secured by an axle. Viewers see a number of wheels and axles on the factory floor (20:03).
Steel from the bar mill is put into links, and a machinist sheers and slots the ends of springs (20:21). Spring leaves are sent through a furnace. A machinist takes a spring leaf out to be cambered (21:24). It is then pressed into shape and quenched in oil (21:48). A steelman ensures the leaves are properly fitted, marking variations (21:55). He then makes adjustments. A steelman transfers a leaf to a complete locomotive spring. During the scragging process, the spring is cambered to a predetermined amount (22:51).
Tires start as ingots, then blocks, which are placed into the furnace. A block is pressed into the approximate thickness of the tire (25:06). A central hole is punched, then the tire is reheated. A forging is shaped through rough rolling and enlarging until it starts to assume the shape of a tire (27:35). It is transferred to the finishing mill. A gauge is fitted to register the diameter of the tire as the rolls enlarge it. Tires of various casts are lined up and submitted to a falling weight impact test, where a large weight is dropped on the tire numerous times (30:08). The film ends with a close-up shot of tires on a train as it chugs forward (31:26).
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Those blokes put it on the line everyday so as to put bread on the table and a roof over the litt’luns heads. My dad and grandads worked in steel in Sheffield, I was born there and im immensely proud of my cities hard grafting past. My grandads favourite yorkshire-ism was “tha don’t do owt for nowt, but if tha does....do it for thi’sen”
@thewomble1509
2 жыл бұрын
My Dad's last job before retirement was at S P+T. He was a mechanic/ tyre fitter on the company vehicles.
@geraldjensen9399
2 жыл бұрын
Toured Britain with a Motown group several times in mid1990s. We hit the bigger cities but also some less common, Harrogate, Nottingham, Sheffield. I went out for pints with English horn section after show in Sheffield. Returned late to the old hotel, said hello to the gentleman behind the desk, walked up an old wooden staircase to my floor. I was in my room and realised I was hungry, called front desk, asked the old Gent where I might find a place to eat nearby. He said he had a cheese sandwich if I would like and brought it up against my protests. He must have been 80 years old. It's as if I were transported to 1930s England. The experience is vivid compared with memories of modern hotels across the country. For Andy Hall
My grandad worked there in the 30s.
What an amazing wonderful nation Britain ONCE was????
So glad I found this channel. Hearing that English accent on top of watching the process. Golden. What a gem of history!
@PeriscopeFilm
3 жыл бұрын
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Another Sheffield firm gone and almost forgotten about
@rodlaughton2318
4 жыл бұрын
Despite the commentary, and their own incorrect publicity material, ‘Steelos’ was actually in Rotherham.
@rodlaughton2318
3 жыл бұрын
@TimAWells Hypnotherapy and NLP The boundary skirts (did skirt) around the shed.
@rodlaughton2318
3 жыл бұрын
@TimAWells Hypnotherapy and NLP Yes, Tim, I remember it well... but the boundary post marked where the boundary crossed the road... it then turns (turned) perpendicular and ran along the pavement for administrative reasons
@rodlaughton2318
3 жыл бұрын
@TimAWells Hypnotherapy and NLP I have a bad, nerdy habit I can’t seem to break.
@thewomble1509
2 жыл бұрын
@@rodlaughton2318 It was. It was at Templeborough as I remember. The old 69 Bus route from Sheffield.
WHAT a great film flat cap sweat scarf and thick shirt thats all these lads had apart from muscle and skill ,no bloody computers just skill all of it was hard heavy and hot work, todays so called hard boys would faint at the job I worked for JOHN LYSAGHTS in SCUNTHORPE in 1957,i have walked past hot ingot moulds and its curled the hairs on my arm , the workers there wore the same "safety" wear they only produced the basic bar and plate and ingots and wire but the skill of these men has been lost along with the plant itself ,health and safety mans nightmare at places like this.I drove an artic when i was 21 and delivered coils of wire to Tinsley wire and lots of other places in yorkshire but its all gone now We need to get it back bugger china lets make it here,
@Skullair313
4 жыл бұрын
If you prefer to die during a work accident then go ahead
You hear that accent at the beginning, you know you are in for a great ride.
Incredible
Love these videos, but wow, what an inefficient process.
Steel is still made in Rotherham today mainly for the automotive & aerospace industry and is probably in the car you drive or the landing gear of the plane that takes you on holiday.
As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating..."
@satanofficial3902
4 жыл бұрын
If you ever wondered how train wheels and axles got to be, now you know. Something to add to your train lore.
@satanofficial3902
4 жыл бұрын
Trains are trained to be trains.
@satanofficial3902
4 жыл бұрын
And... a segment that would please Coily the Spring Sprite. WARNING... never make an idle cranky wish denigrating springs. Coily might be listening...
@satanofficial3902
4 жыл бұрын
"Ha ha! No-o-o-o spri-i-i-ings!"
@satanofficial3902
4 жыл бұрын
You would have to be a MST3K fan to get that last bit.
I bet those jobs were fun in the summer time. ( I was a steel mill worker)
That's a great title!
Very cool and informative video!
@chrisward3107
Жыл бұрын
Sorry to correct you but anything but cool. Very hot dangerous work indeed.
PPE costs were much lower back then.
@scrubsrc4084
4 жыл бұрын
You should see foundries in India, flip flops and lion cloths
@garethgriffiths8577
4 жыл бұрын
Tradesmen are all ways paid well. Even then!
That's cool
Excellent documentary.
The problem with all manual skills, some bright spark mathematician will work out the equivalent in computer code. Progress? Only in mass production.
what a shame all that machinery was suddenly superfluous and chopped up by scrap men!
Up Periscope
Those workers have dead eyes. The boredom of factory work.
Why even bother if you can't see anything? LMAO @ "They have been PASSED for general expedition.*
No way is this from the 1960's, I'd say late '40's early '50's
@goodie54321ag
2 ай бұрын
I worked in the tyre mill as an apprentice bricklayer the charging furnace I worked on that 1980 those machines were 130 years old they used to run on steam power but were given new electric motors
Ain't nothing impressive about all kinds of toxic cancer venting to atmosphere, into a room where the ventilation probably includes a few open windows at best.
@whackadim2250
4 жыл бұрын
Why don't you find something to cry about....idiot...
@whackadim2250
4 жыл бұрын
@@mossyhollow3732 Cry me a river bright boy...
@mossyhollow3732
4 жыл бұрын
@@whackadim2250 Obviously you have nothing intelligent to say.
@whackadim2250
4 жыл бұрын
@@mossyhollow3732 Yes I do..didn't you read my comment bright boy?
@whackadim2250
4 жыл бұрын
@@mossyhollow3732 Cry me a river bright boy...now go away..shoo! LOL!