Two centuries of shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock (1906)
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd · London : offices of "Engineering" · leaf 198
the shaft causes the point of the tool to slideidly a short distance to-and-fro on the bar. The handlever on the right hand side of the machine is depressed,forcing the tool downwards, and the continued rotation ofthe eccentric causes the tool to pierce through the barwith a downward and inward… … m Q W Sq w H H O The Platers Shed. 97 Of the platers shed, where the plates, angles, bulbs,bars, etc., are machined, two views are given on Plates XLII.and XLIIL, facing pages 96 and 98 respectively. It may besaid generally that the machines are designed to deal withplates up to 50 ft. in length,…
