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To: Jim Bishop who wrote (33262)	3/30/2005 1:08:32 PM
From: Robert S. Pattison	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34075

Totally OT to Jim Bishop:... "...pretty cool looking place to grow up." I thought so, because we were a very famous "engineering town" in Britain! Applied science and solving problems has always been "the love of my life!" [Quite different to the political nonsense we have to put up with these days here, huh? 1. The first passenger railroad in the world was built from there to a town 10 miles away (Stockton) in 1825: The Stevenson's Rocket was the first locomotive. 2. We manufactured locomotives for Britain and many places in the world. 3. If you ever get the chance to go to Long Beach, CA take a good look at the Queen Mary. The sternframe of that thing was manufactured by the company I worked for: The Darlington Forge. In fact in the late 1950's I used to go out into the "pattern yard" at lunch times and sun bathe on the pattern that was made for this sternframe. Its 158-tons record size of casting held for about thirty years. I used to spend about three weeks with two artisans to fit one key on the final drive shaft for those big oil tankers (the prop shaft). Shortly after we had to work to those Japanese and Polish drawings it was all over! Meanwhile the stupid idiots in England were arguing the toss for years about who should drill a hole through steel and wood: The carpenters or the steelworkers! Pathetic, isn't it? 4. The bridge over the Zambezi at Victoria Falls and the Sydney Harbour bridge were built by a company in "our town" as well: The Cleveland Bridge Company. 5. We designed and built the first nuclear power reactors in Europe in the early 1960's: Whessoe Limited. My wife worked there too, but unfortunately, as with all of the other good companies, this company no longer exists today. It is like a different world today, although I did hear that Cummins Engines built a huge factory there to make use of the inherent engineering skills of the people, but I'm not sure if its still around today. Robert