boiler shop

[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.