
The Wheelwright's Shop
George Sturt(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 26. March 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-0-521-44772-0 (ISBN)
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George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright's shop where he entered business had been operating for two centuries; this chronicle, first published in 1923, is a poignant record of that tradition, written as it was passing into history. E. P. Thompson's new foreword acclaims the significance of Sturt's engaging narrative as a vital document in the history of labour at the turn of the century. '... a classic ... Mr Sturt's masterpiece. A delightfully urbane and informing book, full of valuable material for the social historian and a sheer pleasure to read.' New Statesman 'It shows in the author a combination of the gifts of a handicraftsman, the actual maker of things, with the powers of a writer, in a way not common in English literature.' The Times Literary Supplement
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'... a classic ... Mr Sturt's masterpiece. A delightfully urbane and informing book, full of valuable material for the social historian and a sheer pleasure to read.' New Statesman 'It shows in the author a combination of the gifts of a handicraftsman, the actual maker of things, with the powers of a writer, in a way not common in English literature.' The Times Literary SupplementMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
24 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
285 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-44772-0 (9780521447720)
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Part I. ORIGINS: 1. Beginnings; 2. The Sturts; 3. My own start; 4. The wheelwright's shop; Part II. TIMBER: 5. Buying; 6. Carting and converting; 7. The sawyers; 8. Seasoning; 9. Wheel-stuff; Part III. GENERAL WORK: 10. Kindly feeling; 11. Hand-work; 12. Bottom-timbers; 13. Waggons; 14. Waggon-locking; 15. Curves; 16. Tapering and shaving; 17. Learning The Trade; Part IV. WHEELS: 18. 'Dish'; 19. Spokes and felloes; 20. Stocks; 21. 'Ringing' the wheel; 22. Cook; Part V. TYRING: 23. Getting Ready; 24. Putting-on; 25. 'Boxing-on'; 26. Exbeds; 27. Bevelled tyres; Part VI. SMITHING aND SUNDRIES: 28. Shoeing: square tongues; 29. Shoeing: strakes; 30. The new Iron Age; 31. Ordinary iron-work; 32. The Iron Age moving on; 33. Will Hammond; 34. 'Jobbing'; 35. 'Cutting and shutting'; 36. Sundry implements; Part VII. THE OLD ORDER CHANGING: 37. Prices.