Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Ten Bob an Hour: An Apprentice's Story


en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2011
When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and threepence. Five years of dirt and grind, legpulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old-fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill in their fingers. He had also found the time - and saved the money - to marry his teenage sweetheart and buy a house. Steve went on to a varied and successful career in the UK manufacturing industry. Half a century on, now retired and living in Cyprus, he looks back on an era before computers and CNC machines, when Birmingham and its factories were the backbone of industrial Britain and families and workmates stuck together. Ten bob an hour is a fascinating portrait of an era long gone.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 14011 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 210

Preț estimativ în valută:
2681 2785$ 2227£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 04-18 februarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781908223111
ISBN-10: 1908223111
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Memoirs Books