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L1186 - Wheel-Tapper at work
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L1186 - A portrait of a wheel-tapper at work, checking the wheels of a bogie carriage at Leicester Central Station, circa 1910. The job of a wheel-tapper was to test wheels for cracks or fractures. Using a wheel-tapper's hammer (seen in the photograph), the wheel-tapper would strike each wheel, and could tell by the sound it made whether the wheel was damaged. Note the Great Central Railway crest on the carriage side above the wheel-tapper's head.
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
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S.W.A. Newton
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L1186.tif
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IM&ICT - RC
Original media type: Glass plate negative
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L1186 - A portrait of a wheel-tapper at work, checking the wheels of a bogie carriage at Leicester Central Station, circa 1910. The job of a wheel-tapper was to test wheels for cracks or fractures. Using a wheel-tapper's hammer (seen in the photograph), the wheel-tapper would strike each wheel, and could tell by the sound it made whether the wheel was damaged. Note the Great Central Railway crest on the carriage side above the wheel-tapper's head.
British Railways - S. W. A. Newton Collection
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3092.jpg
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Width
3576 px
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2598 px
Uploaded on
2013-06-05 11:45:05
Date taken
01/01/1910