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Peter_L · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:48 pm Post subject: Company Pens and Paperclips

OK.. I am not suggesting that any of us were ever guilty of such things, but I lived around folk who worked in various factories etc... I think that is vague enough.

No names no pack drill, but does anyone have a story. I helped build a recovery truck on a Diamond T, night shift work. Only to find we had measured the doors and not the crane track that was 12" lower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM&list=RDGMACDEwr-nE&index=12

I smile every time ....

Ellis · Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:10 pm Post subject:

I will take the Fifth Amendment on this subject.

"I reserve the right to remain silent on the grounds that I may incriminate my self"!

Interesting though, I think we can all admit to.....................
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Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4880 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
I was told that the total weight of door knockers, door handles and ashtrays etc made from the speecial steel developed for the Bristol 188 exceeded the total weight of the completed airframes combined.
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clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

"Pens and paperclips" is that all.????? Laughing

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Peter_L · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:32 pm Post subject:

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:24 pm Post subject:

I doubt the man in this story is still alive, as it's such a long time ago, but my dad often told of someone he knew who worked on playing fields maintenance for an English county council. This arch criminal, a keen gardener, liberated a drum of powerful selective weedkiller from the stores - basically it destroyed everything but grass, and has probably been banned for the last umpteen years - to use on his lawn at home. The size of the drums the council bought for their playing fields, of course, translated into something like a lifetime's supply for your average domestic lawn, and so the bulk of it sat gathering dust in a shed. The shed happened to be a little damp as sheds often are, and back then such chemicals tended to come from the makers in steel drums... Eventually the drum corroded to the point that the weedkiller leaked out into the garden, and matey lost all his year's crop of vegetables and many other plants besides Laughing

Bitumen Boy · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:33 am Post subject:

I remembered another one overnight. I read a story once - fact or fiction, no idea - about a man employed on some building works or other by, I think, the old Great Western railway. He made a nice concrete path down his garden, all using GWR cement and aggregates, that he smuggled home a little at a time by the simple dodge of filling his snap tin up with said materials every day after lunch... it took quite a long time though Laughing

And on that theme, who can forget this work of art..? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHniL8MyMM

52classic · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 493 Location: Cardiff.

My late father used to tell a tale from when he worked at the GWR engine works in Caerphilly - About a bloke who would often be stopped by the security guard for taking out a wheelbarrow full of straw. He said he had a rabbit and was allowed to continue. The event was repeated from time to time which confounded the security guard.

Some time after, when the works had closed down the guard met the bloke in the local pub and agreed an amnesty if he would tell him what was going on. "Simple." he said " I was stealing wheelbarrows!"