Bob wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:16:49 Mark Hooper wrote:
>
>> Must have been a treat watching him squeeze that 500 cu. inch engine
>> block into his lunch box.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
> Mark,
>
> I believe there is a part of the song that states that some "parts" were
>taken
> from the factory in a friends van or something.
>
>
Odd things happen in factories. There are a number of ways to abscond
with things. Someone for whom I once worked had been a temporary floor
worker at the beginning of WWII in a Curtiss-Wright aircraft engine
factory. He told a story about how the shipper, the QA guy and the
company's scrap supplier had gotten together to declare good parts to be
scrap. The QA guy would reject them, the shipper would move the parts
to the scrap bin on a particular day, and the scrap dealer would
promptly pick them up that evening, and out the front gate they would
go, and then onto the black market. Took the company almost a year to
figure out what was going on.
Other strange things happen in factories when the employees are
disgruntled. I knew someone who, in the late `70s, was part of a
Cadillac factory team assigned to handle problems in the Detroit area
that the dealers couldn't solve. One elderly woman had brought a Caddy
in repeatedly for an odd sound on braking. They tested the car, and,
sure enough, the car would come to a stop and there was a sound like a
cowbell. They pulled all the door panels and threshold strips, looking
for large nuts or bolts (a fairly typical trick in car factories) and
found none. Tore out the seats, and again, found nothing. They put four
guys in the car and tried it again, hoping that one or another would at
least be able to figure out from what direction the sound was
emanating. One guy swore it was right near his ear. So, they tore out
the headliner, and there, brazed to the left c-pillar, was a homemade
brass plaque equipped with a bell clapper and a couple of tabs for it to
bang against.
They had no problems identifying the culprits--they had etched their
names into the plaque with a mechanical etching tool.
Cheers.
--
Michael Porter
Roswell, NM
Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....
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