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boiler shop en · NOUN
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A workshop where steam boilers are constructed, overhauled or repaired.
[p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Boiler Shop: Overhaul and testing of boilers, manufacture of light plate details, tender plating.
[p162] It may seem incongruous that a locomotive works should build landing craft and refuelling barges, but this type of work did not prove so difficult for a well-equipped boiler shop.
[p163] The boiler shop welders, whose skill is of an extremely high standard, are trained [...] at the welding school close by the laboratory in the main works building.
1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 162, 163:
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