A collection of recollections and articles written by Vin Callcut including memories of growing up during World War 2, notes on significant employers during a career in metallurgy and remarks on hobbies and vehicles through the decades.
These pages were originally included in the website ‘oldcopper.org’ which was a retirement project that produced a list of many makers of copper and brass and their marks. Management of that site is now in the capable hands of the Antique Metalware Society.
List of site articles
- Retirement Citation for Vin Callcut, March 1999“Vin Callcut has devoted his professional life to copper, first with the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, then Enfield Rolling Mills … Read more
- Copper Development Association (CDA) UK 1933-2019Introduction COPPER DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION was a non-trading organisation sponsored by the copper producers and fabricators to encourage the use of copper … Read more
- Enfield Rolling MillsEnfield Rolling Mills was in Millmarsh Lane, Brimsdown, Enfield, Middlesex on a 40-acre site set up in the early 1920s with … Read more
- John Wilkinson’s Interests in Coppercontinued from Wilkinson Copper King Wilkinson’s Steam Engines One of the first Boulton and Watt steam engines made was the one … Read more
- Stonehenge Light Railway© Vin Callcut 2002 Summary The steam turbine was invented about 150BC by Hero, a Greek physicist in Alexandria, Egypt. It … Read more
- Other ArticlesVin’s Articles, non-technical “Three Men in a B”, V. A. Callcut, Bentley Drivers Club Review, 1967, April, No. 84, pp123-128.‘Callence Preservation’ … Read more
- Technical ArticlesVin’s articles, books, videos and discs in chronological order Articles for the website of Copper Development Association Inc., USA Introduction to … Read more
- John Wilkinson Copper KingSummary A review of published literature has shown that John Wilkinson had significant interests in many aspects of the British copper … Read more
- Vin’s Bikes and CarsA few of the photos are of similar vehicles BKT 563, Francis Barnett (Cruiser), 1935, 150cc, 8/6/54 – ?/6/55, ‘The Maggie’, … Read more
- Three men in a B…(with apologies to Jerome K. Jerome) Edited from original published in B.D.C. Review, April 1967 A 1966 holiday tour by 1930 … Read more
- Clock MakersThe Clock and Watch Makers of Broseley Longcase Clocks and othersby Vin Callcut An edited version was published in: J. Broseley … Read more
- BentleyRegistration Numbers: GK3664, AKH1, SR 1929 (NSW, Aus), 873 HYV (UK), GK3664 Chassis Number: KR2687 Engine Number: KR2686 Having owned this … Read more
- WW2 MemoriesA Broseley Cockney’s War. A few thoughts delivered to the Broseley Local History Society ‘Wartime Memories’ Evening. London His family lived … Read more
- Sir George Monoux School 1946-52The school intake of 1946 must have had some unusual characters. Returned to Walthamstow after the wartime evacuations or recovering from … Read more
- British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association(This is an expanded version of the article prepared originally for Wikipedia) I started work with the BNF on the 25th … Read more