New Machine Makes 600 Shoes in Eight Hours (Jan, 1929)
New Machine Makes 600 Shoes in Eight Hours
SIX HUNDRED pairs of shoes in eight hour is the record set by the new shoe manufacturing machine recently exhibited at the Leather Fair in London, shown in the photo below. It resembles a gigantic wheel, the spokes of which contain the electrical devices which control the operation of the mechanism on the wheel’s rim. There is room for 14 pairs of shoes on the rim of the wheel. This type of invention is in keeping with the general trend of manufacturing efforts to increase the production of finished products with less overhead expense in both man power and mechanical power.
Where’s OSHA when you need it? That woman’s necklace is going to cause her trouble!
When I think of all the orphans that were put out of work by that machine, I just want to cry.
Machines like that suck the living sole out of the shoe-making industry.
First comment. At that time, OSHA did not exist.
Second comment. You criticize that orphans will be out of work. And I am sure you also would argue that they are underpaid. If they are underpaid like you suggest, they will find a more suitable job.
Third comment. Industries do not have souls.
Charles Warrington III: Read it more carefully, the shoe industry has a whole lotta sole.
@C-W-III: First reply — well, DUH!
Don: Don, are you scoffing again?
Am I?
I’ve been trying to stop . . . .
Don: I miss a good scoff. It’s been a mess of Sundays since we ran off them Mayans…
@FB: Are they really GONE? Or are they waiting, waiting, waiting . . . ??
Don: Either way, Pardner we’ll be ready for ‘em.