Worse and best job in a TR factory

[TR6oldtimer]

I think the worse job in a TR factory would be the person sealing seams. :eeek:

The best is the guy driving the car off the assembly line. :banana:

 

[TR4]

Seams are supposed to be sealed on my car? The guy must have been on break when mine went down the line.

 

[MGTF1250Dave]

Perhaps sealing seems at the TR factory is like working the night shift at the Lucas works.

 

[19_again]

Perhaps sealing seems at the TR factory is like working the night shift at the Lucas works.

hahahahaha that was laugh out loud funny. Night shift at the Lucas works, I love it!

 

[Don Elliott]

The seams on my 1958 TR3A were all tightly secured with a black tar-like substance that the Brits call "Dum-Dum". Why they call it that, I can't say. Maybe that's the name of the worker who had to do it. My earliest experience with this was about 1962 when I removed the tunnel over the gearbox. I pulled and tugged and pried it till it came out. Then I wiped it all off with a putty knife and followed by a solvent. When I dismantled my car for a total body-off restoration from 1987 to 1990, I had to do the same for the four fenders. What a job.

In the last 18 years, i have never used any sealer in any of the gaps. All the parts were pre-painted off the car, so all the flat seams are pre-painted face to face. During the last 18 years, I've never had any paint blisters or bubbling in 100,000 miles since then.

 

[DeltaAir423]

The seams on my 1958 TR3A were all tightly secured with a black tar-like substance that the Brits call "Dum-Dum". Why they call it that, I can't say.

Actually the term "Dum-Dum" stems from the city of Dum-Dum in West Bengal, India. Several forms of industry were started in Dum-Dum as it was a great port for shipping wares out. In fact, the British started an armory in Dum Dum where they manufactured a soft point version of the .303 British round, which is where the term "Dum Dum bullet" comes from.

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Now I know where my last boss was born.

 

[Aldwyn]

Hey, SOME of my seams were sealed on my '76 TR6! :laugh:

I guess the guy doing the seams properly went on break when my car was being done, and the replacement seam sealer was reading The Daily Mail when he was doing the other half of my car!

 

[2wrench]

Best job is Test Diver...no Dum Dum here.

 

[DougF]

I could not handle '60s assembly line work day in and day out. So beyond the guy who drives the cars off the lot, every other job would have to rank as the worst. It might not be as bad if the workers rotated daily from station to station which the unions wouldn't allow, but to fasten the same part down every day would drive me nuts. I guess that is why robotics are the trend today. Painting cars would have been more interesting, but I'm sure with safety requirements of the day, painter's life expectancies were low.
Now if we were talking the Morgan plant and building ash frames or beating tin, the craftmanship involved would have held the interest better.

 

[TRcheologist]

Sadly, their strategic planning, finance, and business development arms must have been in the Dum-Dum division as well...

GM must have an awesome Dum-Dum department.

 

[angelfj1]

BUT If the seams are properly sealed how does the rain water drain out of the passenger compartment?