Archive Issue 118

From: The Railway at Hanley This aerial view dates from 1929 with Hanley station and the Grand Hotel, opened in 1900, occupying the centre of the view where Trinity Street crosses over the railway. To the right of the Grand Hotel, across the road, is the original station building now used as a goods station and a goods train can be seen shunting on the original branch line.Historic England/EPW028007

From: Pressed Steel The working environment at Pressed Steel was noisy and often dirty,  and with guards fitted to just a few of the sixty or so presses, the lack of safety was criticised. Unlike bodies that were formed from pressed steel panels, the earlier type of body construction employing wooden frames onto which hand-beaten and rubbed down metal panels were affixed, was exceptionally labour intensive. The advantage of the all-steel body was that the presses at Cowley stamped out panels in great numbers in short spaces of time with great accuracy, but only after weeks of teething problems which had given rise to poor quality and unacceptable tolerances. British Motor Industry Heritage Trust