BOILER SHOP
    In later years machinery has figured largely in boiler
construction, and the Swindon Boiler shop is thoroughly and
efficiently equipped in this direction.

    Worthy of notice is the large hydraulic Flanging press which
works at a pressure of 750 pounds to the square inch.

    The flanging of cold copper plates is carried out in this shop,
which was the first to introduce that system.

    Electric machines are gradually replacing compressed air
machines in this shop. Boiler plates are cut out and edges
shaped by the oxy-coal gas process


    There is a Boiler Testing Plant by means of which all boilers
are tested, first by hydraulic power and then under steam at high
pressure, supplied from a master boiler, so that fires are unnecessary
in the fireboxes of the boilers tested. This method permits of
careful examination being made of boiler and firebox while under
steam pressure.