But in the long run, the market is like a weighing machine, assessing the substance of the company.
|
|
We believe in our hearts that Benjamin Graham – short-term, the markets are a voting machine, long-term, they're a weighing machine.
|
|
"There's the old Ben Graham adage: 'Short term, the stock market is a voting machine, and long term it's a weighing machine,'" Mr. Khosrowshahi said.
|
|
I can't remember who said that, who said the quote about voting machine versus a weighing machine, but you kind of understand that that's true, right?
|
|
"There is a saying that over the short-term the market is a voting machine and over the long-term it is a weighing machine," he said.
|
|
"Although we have a weighing machine at the bar entrance, we do not insist our guests to verify the weight," Anil Kumar, the hotel's food and beverage manager, told Insider.
|
|
"I sat and calculated how much it would cost to buy the first weighing machine, and then how long it would take for the profit of that one to buy another one," Buffett recalled.
|
|
"Aramco could trade in a league of its own for some time, but the stock market is a weighing machine in the long term and the laws of economic gravity will eventually apply," they said.
|
|
"Aramco could trade in a league of its own for some time, but the stock market is a weighing machine in the long term and the laws of economic gravity will eventually apply," said the Bernstein analysts.
|
|
"Aramco could trade in a league of its own for some time, but the stock market is a weighing machine in the long term and the laws of economic gravity will eventually apply," the Bernstein analysts wrote.
|
|
"I would say, 'look, we got to remember the great quote from Benjamin Graham: In the short run, the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term, it's a weighing machine,'" Bezos recalled at the forum.
|
|
Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive, has been dismissive of the preoccupation with near-term stock price swings, often quoting the influential investor Benjamin Graham, who said the market is a voting machine in the short run and a weighing machine in the long run.
|
|
Maybe Didion went in with some of the wispy ideas of Southern mystique that non-Southern reporters can't let go of when it comes time to write their pieces, but here the author's tininess—in "Notes on the South," a "weighing machine" says she is 96 pounds—is an asset: She becomes weighed down by the place.
|
|
Building off the idea from Graham and David Dodd that the stock market is a "voting machine" in the short term and a "weighing machine" in the long term, Klarman said that in today's world of extremely liquid investing the shortest term is best thought of as an ATM, responding to cash needs and wavering sentiment of investors.
|
|
The station then also had a one road engine shed and small freight yard complete with granary and weighing machine.
|
|
Sou' West Journal. No. 37. P. 6. which in 1910 had a substantial goods shed and associated crane and weighing machine.
|
|
Thomas Avery (1813–1894) was a scale or weighing machine manufacturer and local politician. He was mayor of Birmingham in 1868 and 1881.
|
|
A toll house stood just to the south of the junction on the western side. A weighing machine was located near this toll house, set into the road surface. By 1898 the toll house had closed and the weighing machine was no longer present. Mennock Bridge School, later Mennock School, was situated near the old entrance to the Mennock Lye Goods Depot with the schoolhouse standing nearby.
|
|
This principle later becomes the basis of Richard Arkwright's water frame. 1741: John Wyatt, mechanic and inventor, designs and constructs a cart- weighing machine, later referred to as a compound lever weighing machine; the design works by way of levers that hold in place a platform, no matter where the weight is placed the load is transferred to a central lever. Weights attached to that lever then help in obtaining a reading of accurate weight. The simplicity, efficiency and accuracy of the weighing machine prove extremely popular across England, subsequently weighing errors are reduced to approximately one pound per ton, this remains a high standard of measurement into the mid-19th century.
|
|
A T42 5 ton jib crane and an Avery 4cwt weighing machine are located at the station. The track formation and track along Dutton Street also forms part of the heritage listing.
|
|
The siding trailed off upwards to the north-east at the western end of the viaduct where a weighing machine and office were installed in the fork of the junction. Opposite the weighing machine was a signal box built in 1898. The works closed in after which goods facilities were withdrawn from Clydach on 2 May 1938. Decline in local industry and the costs of working the line between Abergavenny and Merthyr led to the cessation of passenger services on 4 January 1958.
|
|
Another siding lay to the north of the down platform end. The goods yard had a weighing machine and a crane with a lift.McLeish, p.39 The line closed to goods on 3 January 1966.
|
|
It was suspected that the bogies were carrying an incorrect amount of weight, but identification of the problem was hindered by the fact that the locomotives were too heavy for the weighing machine at Kilmarnock works.
|
|
In 1894 the station had one platform on the northern side of the single line with a small station with outbuildings and a weighing machine. A single siding ran at an angle with a passing loop on the Newton Stewart side with a small building, a loading dock and a weighing machine. In 1907 the station had two platforms with a signal box on the northern side and a small shelter on the southern side. The Palnure Viaduct over the Palnure Burn near by on the line to Creetown.
|
|
A toll house at that date stood just to the north of the junction on the western side, entered by an unusual walled path and standing on a large masonry base that still exists. A weighing machine was located near this toll house, set into the road surface. By 1898 the toll house had closed and the weighing machine was no longer present. The depot stood close to the Mennock Water and the five arch viaduct that carries the line across, just downstream from the old Mennock Mill ruins.
|
|
Goods traffic continued until 1 October 1964. The line was maintained as a possible relief route until April 1967 when the tracks were lifted.Western (1990), pp.68–69 The station had a goods shed, weighing machine and cattle pens.
|
|
A Pooley 5 ton weighing machine was recorded in the initial heritage listing, but was found to be not existent in 2004. The original double light colour light, metropolitan-style signals from 1946 were replaced with standard colour light signals.
|
|
The goods shed (1915) is 60' x 40' of through shed sub-type 1 design. A steel and timber pedestrian footbridge (1920) links the platforms. A 5-ton jib crane (T156) and Avery 10 tonne weighing machine were removed pre-2004.
|
|
A goods shed and weighing machine are shown with what may have been a bay platform on the Spey Bay end. A small shelter is shown on the second platform together with one of the signal boxes.Elginshire, Sheet 009.09. Publication date : 1905.
|
|
Goods traffic continued until 1 October 1964. The line was maintained as a possible relief route until April 1967 when the tracks were lifted.Western (1990), pp.68–69 The station had a weighing machine and signal box located beyond the up platform .
|
|
In retirement he worked for the Defence Vetting Agency in the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire area and was Chairman of Marsden Weighing Machine Group from 2007 to November 2019. From 2017 to June 2020 he served as the Personnel Director on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.
|
|
There he invented and produced a weighing machine and experimented with donkey power to run his spinning machine. He was brought down by his debts and was made bankrupt. Despite their failures, their ideas laid the foundations for others who followed, particularly Sir Richard Arkwright.
|
|
Lanarkshire XX.1 (Carnwath; Carstairs). Publication date:1897 Revised:1896 The platform and goods yard were accessed off the nearby road to Carnwath. A weighing machine was located on the mineral line. A bridge crossed the road on its way to the Climpy Colliery.
|
|
Multihead weigher (28 heads) Multihead weigher (24 heads) with memory hoppers for quick discharge. Combination of partial weights with multihead weigher (14 heads), target weight 250g. A multihead weigher is a fast, accurate and reliable weighing machine, used in packing both food and non-food products.
|
|
The idea of the compound lever is attributed to the Birmingham inventor John Wyatt in 1743, when he designed a weighing machine that used four compound levers to transfer a load from a weighing platform to a central lever from which the weight could be measured.
|
|
Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 map, 1969 To the north of the bridge, the 1851 map shows that the west bank contained Wharf Street Cotton Mill and four coal wharves, each with a weighing machine. On the east bank, there was a coal wharf with weighing machine, a fire brick yard, another coal wharf, most of which bordered onto another arm which turned back and ended close to Mill Street, and a third coal wharf on the side arm. By 1891, the area between Mill Street bridge and the side arm had been redeveloped and was occupied by a wire works, which included a small tramway, and the arm had been filled in.
|
|
W & T Avery weighing machine for infants When a mercer and draper, Thomas's father, William Avery who died in 1843, inherited from within his own and his wife's family a long established weighing machine business which had begun in the early 18th century with the manufacture of steelyards. With his brother, another Thomas who died in 1824, William Avery continued the business under their own names, W & T Avery.Anita McConnell, Avery, Thomas (1813–1894), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2005 In 1843 two of William's sons Thomas (1813–1894) with his elder brother William Henry Avery (1812–1874) took over the business. Avery's business expanded and became a substantial employer.
|
|
The station had a pedestrian overbridge and a wooden shelter stood on the southern platform.McLeish, p.32 A road overbridge stood over the line to Plaidy. The goods yard was to the south and was approached from that side; it did not have a crane, but a weighing machine was provided.
|
|
In 1866-7 the station apparently had no sidings, possessing an island platform and only two buildings indicated.Banffshire, Sheet X (includes: Alvah; Banff; Boyndie) Survey date: 1866-7. Publication date: 1871. By 1902 the junction had two signal boxes, a pedestrian footbridge, a weighing machine and a complex arrangement of sidings and points.
|
|
The station was on a single track section of line without a crossing loop or signalbox.McLeish, p.32 A goods yard was present with two sidings, loading platforms, a weighing machine and several small buildings. The single platform lay on the west side of the line and a simple shelter was present.
|
|
In 1902 the OS map shows the presence of a water tower, weighing machine, two sidings in a goods yard with a goods shed, two platforms with a footbridge, ticket office, shelters and a signal box. A road over bridge is located nearby.Banffshire 015.03 (includes: Grange; Marnoch; Ordiquhill). Publication date: 1904 Revised: ca. 1902.
|
|
Stoke Bruerne is a small village and civil parish in South Northamptonshire, England about north of Milton Keynes and south of Northampton. Narrowboat emerging from the south portal of the Blisworth Tunnel just north of Stoke Bruerne Boat-weighing machine at Stoke Bruerne, originally from the Glamorganshire Canal The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 373.
|
|
Although passenger services ceased in 1952, goods services continued until 1973 because of the milk train services to the Co- operative Group creamery at Newcastle Emlyn. The station has been destroyed by the building of a bypass. The old station had a stationmaster's house, cattle pens, a large goods shed, weighing machine, a signal box, etc.
|
|
The siding has long been removed as have the signal box, track cross-over, weighing machine, etc. leaving plain double track. The railway border of the site is now bordered by trees and the entrance of the B744 has a private sign that reads 'Garrochburn Sidings' and the area is at present (2017) used for storing mobile caravans, etc.
|
|
In 1889 the company expanded into shopfronts, including glasswork and iron architecture and had over 400 employees. By the 1890s "there is hardly a city or town in Great Britain where their productions are not known and appreciated".Histories of Bristol Companies: Parnalls of Fishponds Retrieved on 26 November 2007. Weighing machine production was phased out after W & T Avery Ltd.
|
|
Trawscoed railway stationRCAHMW Retrieved : 2012-09-25 was located on the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line (originally called the Manchester and Milford Railway before being transferred to the GWR). The station had a signal box on the single platform, a weighing machine, several sidings, and a corrugated iron waiting room and ticket office combined. The estate of Trawsgoed is located nearby.
|
|
The flour-weighing machine stands in front of the large beam-weigher and weighs two large bags of flour. In addition to the support of the scale, there are further large flour sacks with trademarks. About 1551. A flour sack, feed sack, or flour bag is a cloth sack, usually made of cheap cotton, used to store flour or animal feed.
|
|
The station was located on a single line with no passing loop, a wooden ticket office and waiting room and a single siding with a loading dock.Banffshire, Sheet IV (includes: Banff; Boyndie; Fordyce). Survey date: 1866 Publication date: 1871. In 1928 two sidings, an island loading dock, several goods yard buildings and a weighing machine are shown with an additional building near the ticket office.
|
|
The Turriff Steam Mill, a corn mill, was served by a siding. Approached from the east a large goods shed, cattle pens, a weighing machine and goods yard stood to the south and a locomotive shed and water tower to the north.RailScot - Turriff After closure the west bound platform buildings were partly removed. The turntable, another survival from Turriff's time as a terminus, remained until around 1900.
|
|
Findochty station had a single platform with the typical wooden station building. A cattle loading dock stood beyond the passenger platform with a single siding. The 1902 OS map shows a signal box on the end of the Portknockie side of the platform, a weighing machine in the goods yard and a station agent's or stationmaster's cottage at the entrance to the station.Banffshire, Sheet 002.03.
|
|
The Weston Branch today, now a short arm of the Montgomery Canal. This section was originally intended to be the main line of the canal, and is now infilled. The arm had wharves at Hordley, Dandyford, Pedlar's Bridge, Shade Oak and Weston Lullingfields. At Weston Lullingfields the canal company built a wharf, four lime kilns, a public house, stables, a clerk's house and weighing machine.
|
|
The saloon functioned as a venue for dances, until the construction of the new ballroom by Edis, and has a minstrels' gallery to accommodate musicians. The room contains a weighing machine; Edward VII was in the habit of requiring his guests to be weighed on their arrival, and again on their departure, to establish that his lavish hospitality had caused them to put on weight.
|
|
It was then closed by the British Railways Board. The OS maps and photographs show that it had one platform, a signal box, a weighing machine, and a siding. A passing loop was located just beyond the Llangybi end of the single platform.Derelicy Miscellany Retrieved : 2012-09-21 Passenger services ran through to Aberystwyth until flooding severely damaged the line south of Aberystwyth in December 1964.
|
|
Publication date:1926. Revised:1925 Levelled:1900 The goods station stood to the south on the western side of the single track line and was approached from the south. The goods yard in 1900 had three sidings, a shed and a loading dock with some ancillary buildings. Aberdeenshire, 019.15, Surveyed: 1899 to 1900, Published: 1900 The goods yard had a crane and a weighing machine.
|
|
Cullen station had a single curved platform with the typical wooden style of station building, however it was larger than many of the others with a central canopy between two wings. a passing loop was not provided. The 1902 OS map shows a weighing machine in the goods yard, several sidings and a goods shed. A station agent's or stationmaster's cottage sat near to the station.
|
|
The OS maps for 1858 show that the 'Hillhead Railway' ran to Broadstone quarry from Barkip Junction on the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire Railway branchline to Kilbirnie. At first sidings and a transfer system existed with a weighing machine at what was to become Brackenhills railway station, later a direct junction was laid. The line did not survive into the 20th century. The road nearby is still known as 'Reek Street'.
|
|
The 1867–71 OS map shows a single platform with a shelter, two sets of signal posts, a stationmaster's house and a weighing machine. A couple of sidings appear to end in a small goods shed.Inverness-shire (Mainland), Sheet XLVI (includes: Abernethy And Kincardine; Duthil and Rothiemurchus) Survey date: 1867-71. Publication date : 1875 In 1903 the layout is the same with the addition of several small buildings.
|
|
The station had two platforms, a signal box to the north and a station master's house. The goods yard had a weighing machine and a coal yard.Old Maps Retrieved : 2012-09-15 The much modified station house survives, the platforms have however been demolished and the line has been electrified. An electricity supply sub-station is located here and the railway becomes triple track here for a distance running north.
|
|
Further sidings, a weighing machine, a disused colliery and a passing loop stood to the north past the level crossing. In 1915 Plas-bach Colliery lay to the west with a substantial rail network and several transfer sidings stood on the line towards Pontyates station.Carmarthenshire LIV.1, Revised: 1913, Published: 1915 What may have been a public siding lay to the west of the station, nearly parallel to the platform.
|
|
Old railway overbridge near Wigtown. The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway was formed from the amalgamation of two railway companies: The Portpatrick Railway and the Wigtownshire Railway, which got into financial difficulties; they merged and were taken over.Casserley The single-platform station stood off the Harbour Road. It had a ticket office and waiting room, a stationmaster's house that still survives (datum 2013), a goods shed, a weighing machine, passing loop, crane, and several sidings.
|
|
With some mechanical talent he started to dabble in patents, selling one for a perpetual motion machine in 1808. In 1809 he returned to rope-making, a previous occupation, and in 1810 to the militia. In Ireland with his regiment, he worked at line engraving. Martin in 1814 was presented with the Isis silver medal by the Society of Arts for the invention of a spring weighing machine, with circular dial and index.
|
|
In 1909, a strike occurred among scalemakers at Messrs Hodgson and Stead, in Manchester. Following the strike, many employees decided to found a union, the Amalgamated Society of Scale Beam and Weighing Machine Makers. Initially very small, the union expanded steadily, opening branches in Liverpool and Sheffield in 1910, and expanding into Wales in 1911, Scotland in 1912, and Ireland in 1918. That year, membership reached 600, and in 1920 it peaked at 1,000.
|
|
A complex and extensive network of lines lay within the paper works buildings. The goods yard had several sidings, a crane and weighing machine. The line west towards Park from the new station site was not completely doubled until after 1899. A pedestrian footbridge was present, a signal box on the western end of the eastbound platform, typical GNoSR wooden station buildings and a shelter on the westbound platform together with a water tank tower.
|
|
A weighing machine was located near the road entrance.Aberdeenshire, 082.04, Surveyed: 1899, Published: 1902 A short siding off the passing loop on the eastbound side was built as a precaution against waggons that might break loose from freight trains struggling up the steep ascent to Satan's Den Cutting. After a train had left the point was switched to ensure the safety of trains heading up from Aboyne. Two station houses for the station master, etc.
|
|
Whitecross Street took its name from the stone cross that once stood in the area now referred to as St James Square (pictured). It was later replaced by a weighing machine which was present at the turn of the nineteenth century. Later, it was the location of a pump donated in 1873 by Major Alexander Rolls, Mayor of Monmouth. The site of the original cross is marked on Speed's map of the town (pictured in map above).
|
|
Gwyddelwern became the first full-operational railway station in the Vale of Edeyrnion, when services started on 22 September 22, 1864 with the opening of the Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway. The station generated much income from the two quarries, which both had their own sidings. The station also had a coal yard, horse loading bay and cattle pens with a weighing machine. There was a freight loop at Gwyddelwern, on the otherwise single track line.
|
|
Weston Lullingfields was a terminus of a branch of the Ellesmere Canal known as the Weston Branch. The canal was originally intended to continue on to Shrewsbury, but was never completed as intended. At Weston Lullingfields the canal company built a wharf, four lime kilns, a public house, stables, a clerk's house and weighing machine. These were opened in 1797 and closed in 1917 when the Weston branch was closed following a breach of the canal.
|
|
A weighing machine was present and the stationmaster's house stood between the station and the road.Aberdeenshire XCII.2 (Aboyne and Glen Tanar; Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn) Publication date: 1902 Revised: 1900 The station was built with a timber slat exterior and was embellished with angled ends and ornate roof apex tiles as retained to this day (datum 2019). The Gordon Suspension Bridge over the River Dee stands to the west of the old station and the A93.
|
|
P. K. Nair’s fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films. 1,700 films were made in India during the silent film era, of which only nine survive thanks to the efforts of Nair.
|
|
The nearby road was diverted via an overbridge and the single platformed station with signalbox, ticket office, etc. built on its old course. The single track line had a passing loop and a single siding beside a loading dock with a weighing machine present in 1895 and 1906.25 Inch 1906 OS Map Retrieved : 2013-01-13 The original station was rebuilt after a fire in 1880 by the Wigtownshire Railway.RCAHMS Retrieved : 2013-01-13 The stationmaster's house and station building still survive as private dwellings (datum 2013).
|
|
The adjacent road bridge in 2006 The station consisted of two side platforms connected by a footbridge and with a small building on each side. By 1956 the footbridge and the building on the eastboard platform had been removed, however the westbound building remained intact albeit derelict. By the late 1960s only the overgrown platforms remained. A goods yard and signal box stood on the Ardrossan side of the station, accessed off Caledonia Road, with a four sidings, loading dock, goods shed, crane and weighing machine.
|
|
Coalheughglen lies nearby on the road to Dalry, a limekiln and associated quarry lay above Highfield Farm, as did the small Kersland Colliery and coal pits. An air vent is shown in the field near Coalheughglen Farm. In 1857 the OS maps show the presence of a weighing machine near Southfield and a freestone quarry was located near Littleacre. The Highfield Inn, now a private house, stood near the lane down to Littleacre and had a small shop that also sold 'Spirits and Ales'.
|
|
The station was situated in the part of the village called Brockleymoor and had two platforms, a signal box, a station master's house and railway workers' cottages. The relatively sizeable goods yard had a weighing machine, crane, coal yard and cattle pens.Old Maps Retrieved 2012-09-15 The station house and goods yard buildings remain as a pottery outlet, but the platforms have been demolished. The line through the station site has been electrified and becomes triple-tracked at that point for a short distance towards Carlisle.
|
|
Aberdeenshire LXXXIII.15 (Kincardine O'Neil) Survey date: 1866 Publication date: 1867 A signal post is indicated on the platform in 1866. At the east end of the platform was a shed that contained the ground frame or signal box that operated the points for the goods yard siding with its loading dock and weighing machine accessed by a lane at Glassel Village Hall. Kincardineshire, 004.15, Surveyed: 1899, Published: 1900 The line was single track and the stone platform was built on a straight section of track.
|
|
Portknockie station had a single platform with the typical wooden station building, a passing loop and two platforms that were offset, connected by a pedestrian overbridge. The 1902 OS map shows a signal box on the end of the Findochty platform and another on the Cullen end of the other platform, a weighing machine in the goods yard, a single siding and a loading dock in line with the village side platform and a station agent's or stationmaster's cottage near the entrance to the station.Banffshire, Sheet 002.04. Publication date: 1904.
|
|
The OS maps for 1858 show that the 'Hillhead Railway' ran to the quarry from Barkip Junction on the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire Railway branchline to Kilbirnie. At first sidings and a transfer system existed with a weighing machine at what was to become Brackenhills railway station, later a direct junction or transfer sidings were laid. The line did not survive into the 20th century and may have been narrow-gauge as indicated by the surviving tunnel / overbridge. The old Ordnance Survey maps show that a marble quarry was located nearby, now filled in.
|
|
In the early 19th century up to 450 vessels traded from the quay, to places such as Liverpool and Dublin. Trade totalled 1,548 tons in 1818, and peaked in 1862 at a total of 16,532 tons, after which the railways contributed to the decline of trade via the quays. In 1854 the main quay acquired a weighing machine and a crane, and there was a small shipyard in the village. Sulphur was also shipped from the Cae Coch Sulphur Mine, prior to the construction of the railway line.
|
|
It was then closed by the British Railways Board. The OS maps and photographs show that it had two platforms, signal box, weighing machine, a sizeable goods shed and several associated sidings.People's Collection Retrieved : 2012-09-21 Passenger services ran until flooding severely damaged the line south of Aberystwyth in December 1964. A limited service continued running from Carmarthen to Tregaron for a few months after the line was severed, however this was the era of the Beeching Axe and the line was closed to passengers in February 1965.
|
|
Bence, a Welshman, was born near Bristol, the son of a farmer and meat purveyor. He went to school in Newport, Monmouthshire, but left school when he was 14. After working at first as an articled clerk to a solicitor, he moved into engineering with an apprenticeship at Ashworth, Son and Company who made weighing machines. He later became a weighing machine manager; during the depression of the 1930s he went back into farming, but in 1938 he moved to Birmingham to go back into the skilled engineering trade.
|
|
The Alma Coal Pit was at the junction of Sandy and Sanders Lane; the loading bay was at the wide paved part of the road and a small brick building opposite was the weighing machine box. This pit closed towards the end of the last century when they struck an underground stream and the mine was flooded. It was a deep pit employing a lot of miners; the winding shaft was 120 yards deep and is now capped. The stream runs down a tunnel opposite Sandy Lane Farm.
|
|
Changes in weighing machine technology after World War II led to the closure of the foundry, the introduction of load cells and electronic weighing with the simultaneous gradual disappearance of purely mechanical devices. After almost a century of national and international expansion the company was taken over by GEC in 1979. Keith Hodgkinson, managing director at the time, completed the turn-around from mechanical to electronic weighing with a complete overhaul of the product range of retail scales and industrial platform scales. In 1993 GEC took over the Dutch-based company Berkel and the Avery Berkel name was introduced.
|
|
Brecon Road was the location of locomotive sheds, a goods shed and yard, as well as the shed for the District Engineer's coach and engine. The yard had two operational parts: the coal yard, also known as the lower yard, where there were railway barracks used as sleeping accommodation for train crews, and the upper yard with storage and stabling sidings. Stables, a weighing machine and a pumphouse stood opposite the gasworks on the Down side of the line. The pump, which drew its supply from the River Usk, was powered by steam until from which time electricity was used.
|
|
It was similar in design to those at Lumphanan, Glassel, etc. Aberdeenshire, 081.15, Surveyed: 1900, Published: 1902 The single freight siding was lifted prior to the cessation of freight services on the line in 1964. In 1900 a railway agent's house, not built until after 1867,Aberdeenshire LXXXII.11 (Aboyne and Glentanner) Survey date: 1866 to 1867 Publication date: 1868 stood to the west of the station house with access to the platform and a single siding with a loading ramp and weighing machine was located opposite the platform with the goods yard accessed off the nearby road.
|
|
The old station house The platform and wooden station building with its ticket office, waiting room, canopy, etc. stood on the northern side of this single track line with two sidings on the southern side, a second added circa 1900, running to the east with a short loading dock and worked from the west with a brick built weighing machine house and a lineman's hut.Lanarkshire Sheet I.NE, Surveyed: 1896, Published: 1899 The main sttaion building stood at the western end of the platform. An overbridge stood to the east with steps down leading to a path to the station buildings.
|
|
The section from Tongwynlais to the Melingriffith Tin Plate Works at Whitchurch has been retained in water and was used for fishing, but is now the Glamorganshire Canal local nature reserve. In addition, there are a few bridges and locks which have not been destroyed. There are also short stretches in water at Nightingales Bush and at Locks 31 and 32 in Pontypridd and there are plans for restoration here. A boat weighing machine, one of only four known to have existed on British canals, was originally installed at Tongwynlais and was later moved to North Road, Cardiff.
|
|
In 1814 Salmon patented the first haymaking machine. He received at various times silver medals from the Society of Arts for surgical instruments, a canal lock, a weighing machine, a humane mantrap, and a system of earthwalls. John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (who succeeded his brother the 5th Duke in 1802) conferred on Salmon the stewardship of his Chenies estate, so that he might improve the system of plantation. He paid great attention to the proper method of pruning forest trees, for which he invented an apparatus, and made experiments to determine the best method of seasoning timber.
|
|
From 1861 to 1889 Allbutt was a successful consulting physician in Leeds, when he commissioned Edward Schroeder Prior to design Carr Manor for his residence. Allbutt was Physician at the General Infirmary at Leeds where he introduced the ophthalmoscope, weighing machine and microscope to the wards. During 1865 and 1866 he treated victims of an outbreak of typhus fever by open-air methods. He later advocated open-air methods for consumption (tuberculosis). Allbutt was a member of the Council of the Leeds School of Medicine (now part of the University of Leeds) from 1864 to 1884 and its President twice.
|
|
His sister graduated from the state normal school (later Westfield State College), and both of his brothers attended Yale University. Payton worked in the family barber shop until April 1899, when he decided to make more of himself, and left for New York City, against the wishes of both parents. There, he worked as a department store picture and weighing machine attendant at $6 per week, a barber at $5–6 per week, and finally as a porter in a real estate office at $8 per week. While working as a porter, he got the idea of going into the real estate business on his own.
|
|
In the early years of her career, Callas was a heavy woman; in her own words, "Heavy—one can say—yes I was; but I'm also a tall woman, 5' " (), and I used to weigh no more than ." Tito Gobbi relates that during a lunch break while recording Lucia in Florence, Serafin commented to Callas that she was eating too much and allowing her weight to become a problem. When she protested that she wasn't so heavy, Gobbi suggested she should "put the matter to test" by stepping on the weighing machine outside the restaurant. The result was "somewhat dismaying, and she became rather silent.
|
|
Sir Frederick Smith, the first head of the Railway Inspectorate (his formal job title was "Inspector-General of Railways") found that the casting had been insecurely lashed to the wagon, and was unstable for carrying by train. The casting was part of a weighing machine intended to be used at Hull Station, and itself weighed about 2.5 tons. It measured 12 feet 6.75 inches by 5 feet 7 inches, and since the wagon was only 10 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, it must have overhung the wagon when being carried. The casting fell from the wagon onto the rails when the train was about 3/4 mile from Howden station.
|
|
The station had a single platform with a small brick built station building that was located on the northern side of the line. In 1896 a passing loop was present together with two sidings, one ending at a loading dock and a signal box.Lanarkshire Sheet I.NE (includes: Baldernock; Cadder; Campsie) Publication date:1899 Date revised:1896Lanarkshire I.4 & II.1 (Cadder; Campsie; Kirkintilloch) Publication date:1897 Revised:1896 In 1914 the signalbox is shown on the western end of the platform and a weighing machine is indicated in the goods yard and a crane in the goods yard.Lanarkshire Sheet I.NE (includes: Baldernock; Cadder; Campsie) Publication date:1914 Date revised: 1910Stirlingshire nXXXII.
|
|
Sir Arthur McDougall Duckham (8 July 1879 – 14 February 1932) was one of the founders of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and its first President. Duckham was born in Blackheath, London, the second son of a Falmouth-born mechanical and civil engineer, Frederic Eliot Duckham (1841 - died 13 January 1918 in Blackheath), who had patented improvements in governors for marine engines and invented a 'Hydrostatic Weighing Machine'. His mother was Maud Mary McDougall (1849-1921), sister of John McDougall of the flour-making family, which had a mill at Millwall Dock. His older brother was Alexander Duckham, notable for the development of machine lubricants.
|
|
Barburgh Mill lies in Nithsdale, a natural communication corridor that has resulted in the main A76 road passing through it and railway the cutting through it a higher level. The Dumfries to Ayr road runs through on its way to Thornhill from Auldgirth. The hamlet never had a passenger station the nearest today being Sanquhar and previously a station was present at Auldgirth. As an old turnpike road the A76 once had a toll house first recorded as Burbrught Toll in 1821 and also in 1828, however on the 1843-82 OS map it is called 'Stepends Toll' with a weighing machine and a water trough near by.
|
|
On the Down side, there was a spacious goods yard with a weighing machine and cattle pens. The station remained little changed during its lifetime. Before the line that served this station was built, it was intended for the line to branch off just to the south of Lowestoft North Station to a terminus station called Lowestoft Beach, on the Denes, because the owning company could not obtain powers to take the line into Lowestoft Central Station (then just called Lowestoft Station). This was resolved and the proposed Lowestoft Beach terminus and branch was never built. The station became an important coal depot with the line dealing with 20,000 tons of coal a year.
|
|
These programmes were recorded in some odd locations and in a disorganised fashion, some shows were even recorded in the back room of a hairdressers in nearby Saltcoats. In 1979 HBSA was constituted as a charity with the relevant authority, HBSA would now be run by a committee of trustees, around about the same time rooms were acquired at the gatehouse at ACH. The area had been used as a weighing station for trucks bringing fuel for the hospital heating boiler but were no longer in use, until HBSA vacated the premises in 2009 the reception room had a large cast iron weighing machine which clanked loudly when anyone crossed the attached weighbridge outside.
|
|
It is speculated that the cross in question might be the one drawn by Speed in the churchyard of St Mary's Priory Church on his 1610 map. However, according to local publisher and antiquary Charles Heath, writing in 1804, the stone cross after which the street was named was located on the site of a later public weighing machine, and its remains "were in existence in the memory of the present inhabitants." Charles Heath, Historical and descriptive accounts of the ancient and present state of the town of Monmouth..., 1804 Whitecross Street is the eastward extension of the now- pedestrianised Church Street. As it extends eastward and slightly to the north, the road intersects with Monk Street.
|
|
After five years, Morton set up his own label and he was succeeded at Lachasse by Hardy Amies, then a would-be designer and former Avery weighing machine salesman who had got the job of managing the store simply because a letter he wrote describing a dress came to the attention of Shingleton. Another telling of this story by Colin McDowell is that the letter Amies wrote was to his aunt – a vendeuse at a court dressmaker – and was describing the dress worn by Shingleton's wife at a dinner party Amies had attended. Amies' early pieces showed his lack of experience; later he would describe some of them as hideous and extravagant. In 1937, however, his tweed suit called 'Panic' scored a huge hit.
|
|
The depot is now Pendle Trading Estate; the large goods shed is used as a vehicle repair shop. There was a crane, a weighing machine and a signal box, which would be shared with Dixon Robinson's Bold Venture Lime Works, with points on the opposite side of the main line.1886 OS map The main station building has been used as storage and stables since the mid 1960s, and the second brick built station master's house, on approach to station building, has been in private hands from the same time. The original Victorian station masters house is still in situation at the side of the Clitheroe road, and was used as the weighbridge and offices for the Bold Venture Lime Works for many years.
|
|
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll features two snakes (Rattle and Roll) making their way through 11 isometric levels. The object in each level is to eat enough "Nibbley Pibbleys" – small round creatures found throughout each level – to gain enough weight to ring a bell on top of a weighing machine located at the end of the level; this causes a door for the next level to open. Players maneuver their snakes throughout the level with the control pad and are able to pick up Nibbley Pibbleys by pressing the B button on the controller. The snakes' lengths increase when they eat; snakes grow more quickly when they eat Nibbley Pibbleys of their own color, and they grow the most when they eat yellow ones.
|
|
Willington station only opened in 1903, some forty years after the Varsity Line had first opened, as a result of pressure by local villagers on the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Prior to the station's opening, there had been a siding on the site from September 1896 to handle local vegetable traffic, together with a weighing machine. The station opened at a time when the railway company was looking to increase revenues on the line and was followed by the opening of five halts in 1905 at Wootton Broadmead, Kempston Hardwick, Kempston, Apsley Guise, Bow Brickhill and Husborne Crawley. The initial station was a very basic single platform structure with wooden weatherboarded outbuildings typical of the LNWR's construction techniques.
|
|
Works plate from a locomotive that once worked at Mauchline Colliery. The OS maps of 1895 shows only a signal box and signals at the location. By the 1920s only minor infrastructure was present as might be expected at such a remote location with the double track main line, one siding running off to a loading dock to the west, a weighing machine, small buildings and an access off the B744 road to Crosshands with a road over bridge. The signal box or cabin was situated on the eastern side of the main line with several semaphore signal posts and cross over points were present with runaway points located in the up line about towards Hurlford from the signal box.
|
|
In 1904 the station was able to handle all classes of traffic (goods, passengers, parcels, wheeled vehicles, livestock, etc.) and there was a goods crane capable of lifting . Maps of the period show that East Linton station had platforms on both sides of the double-track main line which were linked by a footbridge; the station building was on the southern (westbound) platform; the goods yard with its crane was on the south side of the main line on the western side of the station. The maps also show long sidings each side of the line to the west of the station, a goods shed and weighing machine in the goods yard, a signal box opposite the goods shed and several signals.
|
|
It brought over 3,000 spectators, including Mr and Mrs Tankerville Chamberlayne MP. As well as the events, there were trick-cycling performances, a bicycle polo match and a performance by the Volunteer Band. There were unfortunately a number of accidents on the grass cycle track and Chamberlayne hoped that this would spur everybody on to provide within a year, one of the finest cinder tracks in the country.Isle of Wight County Press dated 27 June 1903, Page 8 In 1906, a Sweetmeat Automatic Delivery Company LTD Automatic Weighing Machine was installed at the premises. At the same time, it was agreed that the St Paul's and Newport Band would be given permission to play at the ground every alternate Thursday evening and to collect money for the Nursing Fund.
|
|
Wason, like his brother Cathcart, was well over 6 feet tall.The Times, 20 April 1927 He was described by one of the contemporary Speakers of the House of Commons as ‘the largest and tallest man in the House.’James William Lowther Ullswater, A Speaker's Commentaries; Edward Arnold, 1925 p97 Sir Percy Harris who was Liberal MP for Bethnal Green South West and whose father was a close friend of Wason's has recorded that Eugene and Cathcart were giants, Eugene being thick set and heavy while Cathcart was willowy and thin. Harris related that the story always told about Eugene was that if he stepped on a weighing machine the hands would go on until they could no farther as he topped the maximum 20 stone mark on the dial.
|
|
Six years later J. Rofe and his son revived the idea, first proposed in 1774, for a link from Sleaford to Grantham. In the same year, a Sleaford trader attempted to get the navigation extended to its authorised terminus at Castle Causeway, but the company stated that at the time of construction, only £700 had been left for the final to the causeway, and as that would not have been enough, they had provided a suitable wharf at the present terminus. While none of these extensions were pursued, plans for the installation of a weighing machine on the wharf in 1837 escalated, and resulted in a residence for the clerk of the canal and a weighing office being built. A crane was installed in 1841, but success was soon threatened by the coming of the railways.
|
|
Vecchie insegne The restaurant owes its name to the fact that it stands in the exact place where, in the 19th century, goods going through the Porta Volta gate were weighed to establish the duty to be paid for their transfer ("pesa" is the Italian word for weighing machine). Reportedly, the Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh worked in this restaurant as a waiter in the 1930s.Berlusconi al ristorante dove lavorò lo zio Ho Viale Pasubio (more specifically, the Antica Trattoria and a graffiti-covered wall of the ruins of the southern-side buildings) appear in the movie Happy Family (2010) directed by Gabriele Salvatores. A thorough renewal plan has been established in December 2010 for Viale Pasubio and the adjacent area, including Porta Volta, to be implemented by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and completed by 2014.
|
|
Duckham was born in Blackheath, London, the eldest son of a Falmouth-born mechanical and civil engineer, Frederic Eliot Duckham (1841 - died 13 January 1918 in Blackheath), who had patented improvements in governors for marine engines and invented a 'Hydrostatic Weighing Machine'. His mother was Maud Mary McDougall (1849-1921), sister of John McDougall of the flour-making family, which had a mill at Millwall Dock. His younger brother, Arthur Duckham, became one of the founders of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and its first President. Upon leaving university in 1899, Alexander Duckham, who had worked briefly for Fleming's Oil Company, was encouraged by engineer Sir Alfred Yarrow, who lived nearby (Yarrow occupied Woodlands House in Mycenae Road, Westcombe Park for some years from 1896, close to the Duckham family home in Dartmouth Grove, Blackheath) to specialise in the study of lubrication, and was introduced to engineering firms with lubrication problems.
|
|
A small railway turntable such as could have existed at the Dreghorn exchange sidings One branch of the Towerlands Tram Road appears to have been relatively cheaply constructed to supply coal to the population of Irvine and to the Town Mill using horse drawn waggons or trams that used dedicated sections of tram road along the edge of the existing road in places, with a few diversions through fields where necessary. The horse-drawn waggons may have been able to continue and complete their journey into Irvine by road, and as noted a weighing machine was present at Townhead near the toll. The Dreghorn branch is not shown as being physically joined to the Irvine branch. The presence of a run-round loop and a siding at Towerlands Colliery may be suggestive of the use of a steam locomotive, which would require a heavier gauge of track.
|
|
Set of scales made by Avery early 20th century Set of scales made by Avery in the 1960s An Avery weighing machine, for weighing a person, now in Leominster Museum The undocumented origin of the company goes back to 1730 when James Ford established the business in Digbeth. On Joseph Balden the then owner's death in 1813 William and Thomas Avery took over his scalemaking business and in 1818 renamed it W & T Avery. The business rapidly expanded and in 1885 they owned three factories: the Atlas Works in West Bromwich, the Mill Lane Works in Birmingham and the Moat Lane Works in Digbeth. In 1891 the business became a limited company with a board of directors and in 1894 the shares were quoted on the London Stock Exchange. In 1895 the company bought the legendary Soho Foundry in Smethwick, a former steam engine factory owned by James Watt & Co. In 1897 the move was complete and the steam engine business was gradually converted to pure manufacture of weighing machines.
|
|
McLeish, p.20 The signal box was opened on 15 April 1895 and was closed on 5 October 1936 when it was replaced by a ground frame.McLeish, p.79 The station originally had two stone built platforms with a small wooden shelter on one side and a typical brick built ticket office and waiting room on the other, original, southbound platform. A footbridge crossed the passing loop to the south of the station buildings. The passing loop and second platform were closed in 1936 to save on maintenance costs and had been removed by 1952.McLeish, p.22 A single short siding lay to the north on the eastern side of the single track line that was intended for use in catching any runaway wagons as the gradient from Rothienorman was 1 in 80. The goods yard with several ancillary buildings lay to the east and was approached from the south where the road was crossed by an overbridge.RailScot - Fyvie It had a weighing machine, a goods shed, loading dock and four sidings in all.
|
|
Becker and Bleicher were generally respected by employers as representing the best organised of the trades unions, which facilitated wage deals that union negitiators in other regions could then adopt as guiding principals for their own collective bargaining agreements. Opposition generated by trades union officers identified as "wild or unruly" and breaches of internal union discipline were therefore challenges that Becker and Bleicher were generally not called upon to confront. Nevertheless, when, in 1958, and despite repeated warning, the works council chairman at Wieland-Werke AG very publicly deviated from the regional wage agreement for the sector, the matter attracted widespread press interest locally and beyond the region: in the end the works council chairman was excluded from IG Metall. There were also confrontations with employers and events that cemented the reputation of Becker and Bleicher as a battle hardened "not to be messed with" union leadership team. On 17 February 1956 around 12,000 union members gathered from across Baden-Württemberg for a mass demonstration against the weighing machine company, Bizerba-Waagenfabrik- Wilhelm-Kraut-AG.
|
|
Three sections of the line would have been: > No. 2. A railway, commencing in the said parish of Oldbury, from and out of > the intended railway No. 1, at or near the termination of that railway, as > before described, and terminating in the parish of Trysull, in the county of > Stafford, at a point in the centre of the public highway leading from the > Dudley and New Inn turnpike road at Smestow toll gate to Seisdon, situate > 135 yards or thereabouts from the tollhouse at the said tollgate, measuring > in a northerly direction along the said highway. > > No. 3. A railway, commencing in the said parish of Trysull, from and out of > the said intended Railway No. 2, at or near the termination of that railway > as before described, and terminating in the parish of Dudley, in the county > of Worcester, at or near Scot's-green, at a point in the centre of the > Dudley and Brettell-lane turnpike-road, situate 33 yards or thereabouts from > the weighing machine in the said road belonging to the Right Honourable the > Earl of Dudley, and occupied by his lordship.
|
|
In 1904 the station (then listed as Reston for Coldingham and St. Abbs) was able to handle all classes of traffic (goods, passengers, parcels, wheeled vehicles, livestock, etc.) and there was a goods crane capable of lifting . Between Reston and (on the Duns line) there were sidings known as Auchencrow Siding (just south of the road overbridge at ) and Billiemains Sidings (just north of the road underbridge at ), each on the western side of the line and able to handle goods only. Maps of the period show that Reston station had platforms on both sides of the double-track main line which were linked by a footbridge; the station building was on the northern (eastbound) platform; the platform for the single-track Duns line was on the north side of that line; the goods yard with its crane was on the north side of the main line on the western side of the station; and that the junction was to the east of the station. The maps also show sidings close to the junction, a weighing machine in the goods yard, a turntable in the angle between the two routes, a signal box near the junction and several signals.
|
|