S.W. Wright - Wheelwright

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East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia
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S.W. Wright - Wheelwright


Mr Austin Mobbs filmed his father-in-law Mr Sydney Wright, describing it as 'a portrait of Dad, one of the old craftsmen', In Lowestoft, Suffolk, Mr Wright arrives at his workship in his treasured 1930s Morris car. Near retirement in his 80s, he shows how he would build a wooden wheel then fits an iron tyre. This traditional craft required skilled judgement by eye, and fast work as the metal softens and expands in the fire, then contracts around the wooden frame as it cools.


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