This is my favourite photo so far, showing Sep as a hands-on junior engineer, dangling a spanner from his strong right arm, whilst his colleague, one imagines a lot more junior than he, holds an oilcan. Beside them is a basket, perhaps used to carry tools around.
Sep wrote in ink on the negative. I’ve printed it also for clarity. At bottom right seems to be a large electric lamp. On the left seems to be a strange shaped wagon on rails, perhaps electric-powered. It is a “donkey”---see Michael’s comment below.
you know what my memory is like ian i can tell you the wagon on the rails it what the boat is pulled though the locks in the panama they are called donkeys . this i remember as i was told when we came though in 1956 to go and ask the cooks if i could have some carrots to give to the donkeys that pull the boats !!! say thanks to mary for me wonder what else is up in the roof?
ReplyDeleteMichael, hi! Thanks for this. I didn't know you went through the Panama Canal.
ReplyDeleteI shall have to reorganize these photos into topics, in fact I’ve already started shifting them around, but I can’t wait to put them up!