Eveleigh Workshops

[drivesafe]

This is one great website

ATP Heritage (http://eveleighstories.com.au)

[Tusker]

It's well worth a wander around, both sides.

The information boards in Bays 1 & 2 say they are the best preserved steam era workshops anywhere in the world. Including Britain.

Regards
Max P

[Gumnut]

Anyone else get given a trolley and told to pick up the Davey hammer??

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I remember seeing hundreds of Eveleigh workers climbing the stairs to the bridge at the Southern end of Redfern Station and similarly workers going to and fro from the McDonaldtown Station. The bridge now long gone.

[cuppabillytea]

I worked in a few of those sheds in the early seventies. Once I left my Moke parked all day with the keys in the ignition, at the top of the North side of the southern steps.

[V8Ian]

You're lucky Mick didn't know that. :ph34r::burnrubber:

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Anyone else get given a trolley and told to pick up the Davey hammer??The World's moved on since those times. Not saying its progress.

One time I had a very trying student nurse and I sent her down to the Theatre Stores to get a long wait for the traction. Was ages before she came back. ;)

Another time with another student it was for a number 9 fallopian tube. :twisted:

The night I graduated, they strapped me to a theatre trolley and put me in a full body cast with an ice cube lining. Was ages before it was hard enough to cut off. :D

[V8Ian]

A bucket of steam or sparks.
A skyhook.
A spare bubble for a spirit level.
A rubber hammer for knocking dents out of glass.
Penetrating nails for hammering into steel.

[strangy]

Anyone else get given a trolley and told to pick up the Davey hammer??
Yes.
I won though when the Davey was used to minimize the trolley.

[cuppabillytea]

I was sent to the Store for a long weight. The Store Man and I played cards until Knock Off. :whistling:
I also have to admit that I walked three and a half steps before I realised I wouldn't get steel wool from the hydraulic ram.

[V8Ian]

As a young and niave apprentice I was caught out with a can of compression powder. The storeman looked for it too.

[Ausfree]

A bucket of steam or sparks.
A skyhook.
A spare bubble for a spirit level.
A rubber hammer for knocking dents out of glass.
Penetrating nails for hammering into steel.

Don't forget...

Left handed screw driver.
One pound of chicken feathers from Steggles down the road.. ( Got me on that one, I was only a kid and the bloke at Steggles said, "what do you want that for" I said "I don't know the boss wants it"........well, you should have heard the chooks squarking when the bloke grabbed them by the feet and tore the feathers off").:o

ps. The boss roared out laughing when I got back...he said.."that's the first time anybody actually got the feathers"