My week this week, my workshop videos.

My 2CV was a charleston, a "luxury" trim level and a burgundy and black paintwork finish. Over the years I had collected 5 complete 2cv's, and broke another 5 for parts, but in the end, I didnt have the time or the patience to do them up, and I sold them as a job lot to Donnington park motor museum.
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Hi boys and girls, still not feeling quite right, but almost there! I did nothing this week, due to the storms and the wind howling round, so I have put together a slideshow of one of our late great engineering works, Doxford and Sons, of Sunderland, Marine engine builders. There is a link at the end to a silent colour amatuer film of the works in action. They built their last engine in 1980. Like, comment, subscribe, and as always, enjoy it!
Phil
Determined to get back to work next week cos i'm bored!
East Yorkshire
 
Thanks old mud, I hope to get back to live workshop videos soon! Thanks for the comment!
Phil East Yorkshire, UK
 
Phil,

Thanks for the video.
I must have spent 20 minutes watching your 5:38 video....I had to keep pausing and replaying.
Great stuff.

-brino
 
Thanks Brino, glad you liked it. My freing Richard (who is convalescing after a wood planer took half his finge)r came round today and I showed it to him. He worked for his dads precision engineering company in Leeds in the sixties and seventies, and took up woodwork when he left there, he loved it too, but said it was depressing that it is no longer in existence, like most of the companies that made the machines in the video. He should have stuck to metalwork!!
Phil
 
Hi Chaps, weather is still atrocious, bitter wind and horizontal sleet today, and I have stayed in the warm! here are some more of my projects, ongoing and finished, but we start out with the glory days of Dean Smith and Grace in Keighley, West Yorkshire, A factory I actually went to in the seventies when I got my first lathe, a DS&G 13Z. If you go to www.lathes.co.uk/dsg there is a factory tour there which is every bit as interesting as the Doxford one Hope you like it, and don't forget to comment and subscribe.
Phil
East Yorkshire
 
Hi Chaps, the week was going so well, once it had started (Tuesday), weather has improved and I feel fit again, and it was all downhill fom there! When everything around you is going bad, you have to take the opportunity to "break on through to the other side" so it's head down, and puuuuuush!Like, laugh, subscribe, comment enjoy!
Phil,
East Yorkshire.
 
Hi All, the welder part is on back order, and this week we decided, seing as the weather was good, to deal with some trees damaged in the recent winds, sort of commando gardening!. We have a 4 Acre field just across the village from the Workshop, and this week, and next week, if dry, will be a maintenance blitz, as it is next to the road, and fallen trees tend to interfere with traffic! please like, comment and subscribe!
Phil
Far East ( of Yorkshire)

 
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And Now, due to Keiths wife having a seroius heart condition (although you wouldn't think it when you see her work) and my wife having Asthma, we are self isolating from each other, so the fencing and completion of the field work will be at a later date!
Phil
Spring like East Yorkshire
 
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