In 1959, Bill Smith was an apprentice learning how to build the wooden patterns that foundries use to crank out everything from cast-iron cornbread skillets to the steel wheels on U.S. Army tanks.

Here are some tools and also a photograph of a toolbox which were used by a pattern-maker. In 1911, Harold Hebditch began work as a pattern-maker at the foundry of Petters who made engines at the ...

Boro Foundry cut pattern costs by 50% using fully 3D printed tooling for a complex heritage locomotive casting.

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