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Factory Maintainance - Personnell Managemen t- Canteen Meals, etc, etc
You might have had, or witnessed, special skills at the Factory
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Skill 1 |
Fully Fashioned Knitting Machine Operator. |
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| To operate a Knitting machine, producing 30 stockings simaltaneously,was among the highest of skills. | |
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Skill 2 |
Needle Pliering - Replacing and straightening very fine needles. |
Each Knitting machine had thousands of needles and similar very fine elements
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Skill 3 |
Seaming the Selvedges (edges) of a Fully Fashioned stocking. |
After Knitting, the flat fabric selvedges had to be seamed with a straight seam. |
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Skill 4 |
Linking the toe-seam on Seamfree hosiery. |
In the early years the toes of the seamfree stockings were closed and seamed by adding each of the 474 stitches of one tube to the very fine points on a linking machine. |
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Skill 5 |
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Skill 6 |
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