Shanghai-Mayne
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Only three pieces made , this one belonged to last emperor of Qing Dynasty
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Enigma1938
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That Bridge is at Wesel Germany, about 20 km from my home. There are still ruins of it today and it's still pretty impressive.
Enigma1938
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B-Man2
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Spraying what is probably enamel or lacquer based paint with no masks or respirators to protect their lungs from damage. These guys probably didn’t live a long life. Sad
Pa12
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We used to have a boot shop at the airline. 2 guys removing and installing de-ice boots on leading edges all day every day. Nothing but MEK and 1300L ( industrial contact cement) all day. We used to call them Cheech and Chong. If you looked up “stoner “in the dictionary it would have a picture of these guys. Eyes looked like two piss holes in the snow. I asked them how they can stand it. “Fuckin awesome man”.
B-Man2
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Hope they’re still around at 60.
Pa12
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They looked 60 them. Probably 30. Painters were even worse. Nasty epoxy paint is a killer.
Micawber
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I don't think I recall seeing photos of much, if any, PPE in use in spray paint shops during the period.
Pa12
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I don’t think they used anything back in the day. Health and safety wasn’t a big thing back then. Even in my day anyone wearing respirators, rubber gloves or any other safety equipment was generally referred to as a Nancy or a Wally.Probably be old healthy Nancys now
FlakMagnet
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Thomas Koehle
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WW2 French female freedom fighters who fought against Nazi-Germany - the lady with the checkered blouse on the first photo is the same lady like on photo no. 3 and in her older days on the very bottom ...
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Thomas Koehle
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Mr. Clark Gable on a gunner position in what looks a like a B17 to me …
Thomas Koehle
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And Mr. John Wayne
Pa12
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Is it just me or is there something hot about pretty girls with mp40’s and Tommy’s
Thomas Koehle
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British “Home Guard” initially named "Local Defence Volunteers"
B-Man2
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No It didn’t exist back then . They had no information or studies on the damaging effects of inhaling enamel or lacquer paint spray dust . For all we know the paint could have been lead based. Pretty much the same with cigarettes back in that period . No one had a clue that this kind of stuff damaged your lungs and had long term irreversible effects
I just read "Four Hours of Fury" about Operation Varsity. Insane battle in that area.
Also, "Rhineland", about Operation Veritable. That was especially interesting since I lived in Kalkar, GE for four years.
Thomas Koehle
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When I did my apprenticeship it was still not that common to have spray boots and masks for spray painting even in car-repair shops …
Was about 40 yrs ago - one of my buddies who was a very gifted car-painter even used to have a smoke whilst spray painting even though there is that high risk of an explosion and those fumes of thinners turns into a toxin when the pass the high temp of a cigarette …
