yes and they did not have hay fever, lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance and other nowadays fashionable handicap!

No, actually they probably *did* have those things, they just didn’t know about those conditions or their symptoms, so they ‘gutted it out’ like I did when *I* was younger and paid the price for doing so years later, e.g. gluten/fat problems…

whitey... whats on your mind these days... Im 64 and a little disappointed at the lack of love for Country... You are part of the best generation ever in history... a full blooded American hero !!!

They truly don’t make em like you anymore........ unfortunately.

whatever like a 75 year olds on youtube and commenting on a sultzer doco... whitey lies

I was in Australia when i worked on Sultzer looms ,I moved to Australia in 1964 from UK I WAS 21 years old ON MY OWN with $40 dollars in my pocket. Now i,m 76 yo and still run and manage my own Laundromat running American DEXTER washers a clothes driers..cheers and i,m not a liar. Cheers.

MR sorry you are wrong

You woulden't be alive to long id bet, that sort of thing will kill ya ;)

Most likely water in the containers. They are working in a very hot place.

@@pixelpatter01 I was thinking the same thing

And yet somehow they produced some of the finest machinery in the world

Wow, what a great video 👍

Did they still have feet washers?!

@@middleway5271 Not that I can remember. Maybe in another building of the factory.

;) Umm me too :(

Well they didn’t work like that atleast some didn’t even overweight back then was stronger than today

There was not much to eat in those days

In those days overweight people were not hired at companies like Sulzer. It was a bad reflection on the companies image. Swiss companies were very "image" conscience. Overweight people tended to be slow, under productive, fall asleep at their desk etc and were often laid off if one happened to "baloon up" or gain a lot of weight. There were no laws against discrimination in those days. Even today a fat person is usually not hired versus a slender person if their qualifications are the same. Some predjudices never change.

Stop with the shame and lose some weight.

I guess his position was invented a little later.

Fascistnating, did you say?

Correct. The biggest concern for any company now is keeping investors happy so everything is secondary to maximising profit and cutting costs. Accountants make decisions that ultimately compromise workers conditions. It’s a shit time to be a worker.

Im sure their were lots of firing and hiring going on. Dont let a cheesey video blind you to the fact that if you didnt do a good job and obeyed the rules you got replaced.

Thank you.

Those days are NOT gone, but they're slipping away. Unions help a LOT. Happy to be working where I'm at for 25 years. I'm 72, and can't imagine not being at work on time every day.

@@soularddave2 : You're in the minority. Far more have bounced around in their 25 year work lives than been at one place. With a union, no less.

hence high precision reliable engineering, including rail locos that work in uber-cold weather and "up n down" mountains.

And very hot weather. The first Diesel locomotives on the Central Australian Railway, were the NSU class, powered by Sulzer diesels.

The whole cuckoo clock story is a hoax. They come from the black forest in Germany and have nothing to do with Switzerland. But somehow people got convinced about that…

also cheese, milk, and chocolate, they build very good machine shop tools as well, though not as famous as the germans, french or british, but thats a story for another time.

@@manga12 i am afraid, you have never heard of the real world wide famous Saurer engines, far ahead of any other manufacturers around the globe!

SHERMAN YOUNG hey buddy...walk it off

Hakapik Alot of overtime

injuries weren't common cause no one had distractions, none. There was no phones, no radios no nuthin. Plus all white people, all the same culture and teamwork works much better that way. It's like that older comedian said recently ''if you were dumb you didn't make it'' LoL i just made up that 1st part but it sounds good eh

Nice Blonde Girl I work with headphones plus saves my hearing from the constant firing of my nail gun it helps keep my mentality active and reduces my drowsiness after hours of work and these types of work areas did have many accidents it's not distractions specifically it's awareness of your surroundings and work area I then realized it said read more on your comment :/

@@niceblondegirl8776 yes, we need to erase the failed multiculti shit project!

bcbloc02 - Brian! You have enough huge machinery! Save some for the rest of us. Still waiting to see one of those big compressor shafts on that boat sized monarch!

Most people these days going into the work force would not do this type of work or any other non social media related work because they cannot have their smartphones

Ozdave McGee what generation difference?Im 26 and i have bloody blisters on my hands.I dont mind working hard and dangerous work even tho i don't have to

@Gumelini1 - You are one of the endangered species then. Most people nowdays think making some low tier youtube video in an air conditioned office with snacks and catering provided is manual labor.

ElfNet Designs i prefer making everything by myself because if i screw it up i cant blame anyone else.And i hate gloves,they are allways in the way when i work with them.It feels like my hands are not mine,so I avoid them as much as possible

A was about to say the same when I seen that railcar

Not to mention at 10:09 the narrator explicitly states, "After the second world war..."

Seu Apelido na Sulzer no bairro de Guadalupe - RJ , Era Boca Rica.

Peter W. Meek What’s the company name?

Ring Screw Works (one of the very rare incorporated Michigan businesses without either Inc or Co in the registered name). My family sold it to Textron in the late '90s; Textron may have sold it to someone else. My grandfather was apprenticed as a blacksmith in Sweden when he was seven years old. He came to the US around 1905 to Rockford, IL (huge Swedish community there) where he worked as a machinist. In 1920, the family moved to Detroit to be near the budding automobile industry. In 1929 he founded Ring Screw Works. Eventually we had 10 plants in the Detroit area and around 1100 employees. (My grandfather believed that no single plant manager could manage more than about 100 employees, and know each one of them personally - their strengths and weaknesses.)

Peter W. Meek First off that is amazing your Grandpa started a company right in 1929 and didn’t fail!And it’s super amazing how many companies supply parts to the automakers and you never hear of them! Reading around through Ring screw seems to be owned by a company called Acument Global Technologies and not Textron anymore but I can’t find a date on that but either way I wish there were more business/boss that cared about their employees!

That is the main difference between family owned versus holding company-owned businesses. Families can look ahead for generations while stockholder-owned holding companies rarely look beyond the next quarter. In spite of promises (hah!) made to us by Textron that they were buying RSW for its ethos (best in the business) and that they did not plan to change a thing, within a few years, the Textron stockholders replaced their top management with people who would generate higher dividends RIGHT NOW. So they raped RSW and sold off the pieces. Needless to say, neither the "new" Textron nor AGT gave a damn about the employees who (justifiably) now felt that our family had let them down. I don't know what else we could have done, but we were no longer able to provide family people to run the company and rather than become absentee owners with remote managers, we sold it to a company that we thought would keep following our business model. Nearly 30 years later, I still feel sick about what happened to RSW employees. When my mother was Chairman of the BOD, she followed the family tradition and made it a point to visit each plant every few months and go around and talk to each of those 1100 employees individually. She was nearly 80 when we sold RSW, and she took her stewardship seriously. You are both right and wrong about the number of suppliers to the auto industry. In one decade the number of fastener suppliers dropped from over 50 to just 5. When we sold RSW to Textron it dropped to 4. The big three automakers (four if you count Honda) were making every effort to reduce the number of suppliers by introducing requirements that only the largest suppliers could comply with. It worked, and like most things it had unintended consequences.

Also the Boat Freccia Bianca was made 1948 (later called Fortuna)

adys delicias : these weren't them.

They were somewhere between 70s and 90s. These days there are too many women working in a mans job, for example making important political decisions. Thats the reason why Sweden has no-go places. Sad to think about it.

They are still ahead, like always. Back then you worked 60-70 hour weeks and had a high chance of getting maimed or killed because some stupid unnecessary shit.

Ha, I was wondering how you knew, and then I see the plate with BANGKOK written on it!

But Sulzer also delivers Locomotives to Romania in those days. Later, Romania build locomotives in licence from Sulzer many decades.

Main progress is in the fact we make large ships in independent sections and we piece it together. But other then that a worker from 1930s would not need much re-training - maybe in the area of safety.

You are correct, the Germans are something else because Sulzer is Swiss...

Happy to see you're interested in using parts of our video. If you indicate © Sulzer Ltd as source you can use the footage.

@@SulzerLtd definitely will do. Have a nice day :-)

We forget hydraulics are a fairly new.

C Smith As far as hydraulic tools yes, they didn't become commonplace until the 60's, but hydraulic machines are quite long known. The old Greeks already knew hydraulic principles and made some simple machines, during the industrial revolution hydraulics, albeit with water, were commonly used. Some British cities did even have hydraulic networks, where high pressure water was distributed trough a pipe network. Parts of this can be seen in the museum of science and industry in Manchester.

You got me there, I should have thought that statement through before I wrote it, I should have said high pressure hydraulics, I assume it had something to do with reliable seals, maybe once they figured out how to vulcanize rubber?

C Smith That's more correct, compared to modern oil based hydraulic systems those water based systems had only about 1/10th of the pressure, and quite large cylinders were needed, so those were only suitable for large machines but not for hand tools. By the way, the Tower Bridge in London is powered by water hydraulics.

Dead Frt West he also stated that it was after the war when showing the Americans around.

Most of those workers had worked on the farms from small children to adult hood. If the mule or some other piece of equipment did not kill them they were ready for factory work. They knew how to work safely although it was grueling and around very dangerous equipment.

Have a good day Eryk.

@ your granddad was correct

@@freedom661100 A huge number of children also got sold to farmers for hard labor like slaves because families couldn't afford them actually. They were called "Verdingkinder".

Metrosexuals.

Who cares?

Their engines sucked compared the the GM Winton

That's interesting...they were blacklisted and yet Ford and a few other US corporations which I can't remember the names of did business with Nazi Germany and were not blacklisted?

dronf + It's history and interesting. Especially since you stated your Grandfather worked for Sulzer triva like this should interest you. That is if you're not a big fucken liar about your Grandfather. So why are YOU here? wasdmf!

kiwitrainguy, after the U.S. got involved in WWII?

Simon Richard yes

Nowadays they make pumps at least, we just bought some.

water pumps, looms and stitching machines for around the globe too.

You'd not want a blue curly down your collar off that monster.

It was clearly called a Planer in the video and NOT a shaper. A Planer moves the work while the tool is fixed. A Shaper moves the tool while the work is stationary.

It is a planer1

Planer, not shaper. But yeah it's rather large

Sound effect sucks indeed