Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A606r
Creator(s): Baines, H
Site Location(s): Subject - Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1358, -1.52826 )
Date(s): 1960
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 32' 47".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414657
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Albert Baines [?wife also present; with male and female questioners], recorded in Ripon; describes his work as a wheelwright in Great Ayton and Stockton [?on Tees]; apprenticeship in Ripon, c. 1900; describes the carriage wheels made - wooden with rubber tyres; describes the manufacturing process - use of oak, boring, morticing by hand; names the parts of the wheel and the tools used; comments on ?lance wood for spokes; wheel rims and joining parts with dowels; affixing the spokes, using a gauge stick; putting on the iron tyre (hooping); setting the axle (describes two axle types); occupational language (no difference between Ripon and Stockton); describes making a barrow wheel; sizes of carriage wheels (dimensions) - Brougham, gig, cart; process of fitting the tyre - use of heat and water; making wheels for Sir Reginald Graham of Hutton Conyers; fitting spokes; comments on the decline of wheelwrighting, due to the rise of the car; working during World War One; talks about wheelwright's
tools - coach axle, adze, saw pit; hours of work and wages; cost of making a gig; brace and bit for boring; chisels; talks of carriages - Brougham, Phaeton, Victorias; local water-powered saw mill; names coachbuilders in Ripon.
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