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- Above:
One of the spokes being cut to the required taper to match
- the sockets on the hub and shroud
ends. Each spoke is cut to a finished
- length of 22 feet 6 and 3/8 of an
inch as it would have been by the Victorians.
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- Above:
A pile of now completed spokes. All forty
were
- made in just over one week by the
Master Carpenters.
- Above:
Darren Hadley sandblasting one of the
massive seven foot diameter hubs.
- Roman numerals were found on each
of the twenty spoke sockets.
- Above:
Ramsey Shipyard's Craig Tinkler painting the hubs.
- Above:
The finished item. The hubs wouldn't have looked
- any better when they had
originally been made.
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- Above:
Gareth Hughes, pattern maker at the
Progress Foundry in Stoke
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- puts the finishing touches to the
wooden patterns for the
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- reproduction of the shroud
sections of the wheel.
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