At 12:32 PM 7/3/2009, Roger Whittaker wrote:
>in the old days a vehicle required 1 hour of service for every 8 hours of

I distinctly remember reading -- I'd swear it was in the 1917
Proceedings of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (the same
ASME that wrote the specs for our Westy propane tanks) -- that modern
trucks were capable of delivering almost fifty miles to a gallon of
lube oil!  Maybe it was a misprint.

That issue, about three inches thick, was primarily devoted to the
manufacture of explosive shells for the war, including an
operation-by-operation description of how one manufacturer did it
with locally-adapted machinery and what the precise modifications
were; but it also had an article about industrial safety, and quoted
numbers for Massachusetts in 1915.  On a population of about four
million, MA had (can't remember the number) industrial fatalities
including 123 drownings and a couple dozen people killed "skylarking"
and another couple dozen in fights -- and almost two hundred thousand
injuries, about half of them hand and eye injuries.  MA was a textile
center at the time, and many of the hand injuries were from picking
lint off the looms while they were still running.

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