Making the War - with Bloke on the Range and Taofledermaus

Lmao you guys just needed to throw Ian in there. I subscribe and watch all you guys thank you for all the content you make and stay safe everyone. 😁

There is a company in the US which make aircraft propellers the same way as the stocks are being made, more modern of course but the same way.

Lol you boomers can't figure out conference calls :P

And you ridicule the millennials ;)

Great Idea ,  I have enjoyed videos from all of your Channels .  This will be fun  Giant presses making World War  1  T.P  Projectiles and Armor ?   Thanks a bunch  Guys !

GREAT VIDEO !!!

Do more of these!

12.36 bloke with a Rab C Nesbitt head bandage..;

48.24 er, Lewis cooling fins?

Women tended to be used in the areas needing a gentler, more accurate touch than rough handed men.  Didn't mean anything for individual women/men who were suited to one or the other by their own nature.  Best person for the particular job.

At 45;30 I think it might be the ?mount? for the BAR might be moving the aim point to see if it will hold true to its' aim.  I remember when I started college in 1964-5, you wore a WHITE shirt with BLACK pants and a narrow BLACK tie on campus and to classes.  You could be told to go home and get dressed if you didn't.  Pretty much everybody did dress for work.  Check out some of the videos of train engineers at the time who wore full suits to drive their trains.

Tauflederfolk rock

Amazing behind the scenes stuff. You only ever see WW2 factories. This was a treat.

“We could all do the same episode on the same gun and it’s not going to be the same”

Yeah taof is going to shoot a 1917 out of a shotgun

My guess is that the factory with the hats was colder.

Thanks for video. Superb, when on mute.

Way more interesting and entertaining than it should have been. Thanks.

Two comments.
1. Years ago I subscribed to a magazine about farming with horses. An article from a guy who as a teen had to farm with horses described his first tractor, something like an 8N. He almost went to the barn and shot the horse he was so ecstatic. Working in those factories was a hundred times better than many alternatives at the time. Today we all think of being in front of a computer for 8 hours as work.
2. My dad remembers small New England textile mills looked similar to what you see in these films, except it was looms instead of routers running off all those belts. My home town mill closed in the late 1950's so I don't know if that technology was already obsolete or not. Lowell MA has some large museums displaying that technology if you want a first h and view.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do this again and invite Uncle Bumblefuck from AvE. PLEASE!!!!! Release the SCHMOO!!!!

The fella on the BAR polymer 80 jig is wearing a neck tie. Now I can see a few reasons that'd be a bad iidea.

My Father was married in Sept 1939. In all the photos he had his right hand behind his back. Its because he had the top half of his finger chopped off a few days earlier. I cannot tell you what his factory was, it might have been at a coal mine, but they took him and the top of his errant finger to hospital but could not save it.
Not unusual I'm guessing. Being a farm labourer was dodgy, even now! Even after WW2 factory life was dangerous.
A great video. Thanks

I need a job at the BAR factory.... “One piece at a time, and it didn’t cost me a dime....”

This was amazing and a genius idea to bring in Bloke and Taofledermaus. An unexpected and unlikely crew. Each brought their own flavor to the conversation.

Taofledermaus, Othias and the Bloke in the same place. YES!!!!

Thank christ for unions. There's a reason modern factories aren't anything like this.

Just going to work in my three-piece suit to assemble machine guns all day...

That first guy does appear to have dark coloured earplugs of some sort (not just his earholes!)

Just a thought, the first factory had a LOT of wood working, maybe they had hats just to keep the wood dust out of their hair?

very interesting footage

You never forget anything. Everything that ever went into your brain is still in there.
But, it's like your garage; you can't find what you're looking for when you need it.

Back in the good old days when you were considered an old man at 45.

this was super fun. Nerding out on old school gun manufacturing. Thanks ya'll.

I found these films at Critical Past a few years ago when I got my M 1917 Eddystone. I think they attribute these films to the Eddystone factory. You guys have made many comments about the line shaft powering of the machines. There is documentation about the Eddystone factory which gives the statistics of the machinery and size of the factory. I think at the time when it was built to manufacture P14 rifles for the British contract it was the largest rifle works in the world. The factory reverted to the Baldwin Locomotive company after 1919. The only remaining building is the woodworking building. There is commercial retail shops and a Walmart on the property today.

That was awesome... please do another. Thank you.

Not to mention the lead time to get the machinery produced. big lathes mills and all the other tools have to be made, to make the tools to make the machines to make the tools...etc etc etc. " for want of a nail... 'Axe

Well they always say there is one in every crowd ( the old man grinning while performing some task, not wearing a tie or hat, honestly looks kinda crazy)

Bloke: They were a big family
Me: Mormons...
Othias: Mormons...

This is like Mystery Science Theater 3000 for even bigger nerds.

Glad I stumbled onto this… I love this stuff

Thank you for the video. Commenting for the Algorithm.

Just as a reminder, next week will be the Q&A showing, after that will be our regularly scheduled programming. Thank you all and stay safe out there!