GWRdriver
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This is a photo of a British model engineers's proverbial "garden shed" workshop of about 1890. I am always amazed at the amount and complexity of work that was done in simple workshops like this using the most basic tools. Things to be noted, from left to right, a window wall for good light, a small bench vise, the treadle lathe, a bench drilling machine, and under the bench a parafin (kerosene) heater. It's interesting to note that both models in the picture, a "Single" locomotive under the bench and vertical engine, have components which would be too large to have been finished on the machines in the picture so if they were built in this workshop some of the work had to have been done by hand, ie, chisels and files.