Quoting Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In our H&W Town class boat engine room the knees are marked HINGLEY, > this is Noah Hingley of Netherton, guess the rivets came from the same > place!
Probably not in fact although the iron bar from which the rivets were made may have done. The rivets would usually have been made locally from round iron (or steel) bar cut to length and then forged with a head at one end in a rivet making shop or works either within the shipyard or in the local area. Rivet making was one of the many ancilliary industries in shipbuilding areas > Obviously grand Union boats have a better survival rate than > wWhite star line craft! Not ower many icebergs on the 15 mile pound! :-) Bru
