Cycling UK Forum

I did a four year engineering apprenticeship with Mirrlees Blackstone - some of you navy men may recognise the name as they made ship engines. The first month was spent filing bits of rough steel flat and square, these eventually became a pair of clamps. The rest of the first year in the training school I made toolmakers clamps, a pair of pliers, a bench vice, scrapers, a sheet metal toolbox, a screw jack and a surface gauge. It was a fabulous training scheme.