"Patriot."--A Typical Example of the "Claughton" Class of 6´ 6´´, Six Wheels Coupled Express Passenger Engine with Superheated Boiler; Four h.p. Cylinders, 15-3/4´´ bore x 26´´ stroke; Boiler Pressure, 175 lbs. per sq. inch; Maximum Tractive Force, 24,130 lbs.; Weight of Engine and Tender in Working Order, 117 tons 99 6-inch Shell Manufacture in the New Fitting Shop, Crewe Works 112 A Crewe Tractor in Road Trim 130 A Crewe Tractor as Light-Railway Engine on Active Service 130 Limber Hooks: Illustrating Duplex Method of Drop Forging 145 Trunnion Brackets for 6-inch Howitzer Gun, Drop Forgings 145 The 4-ton Drop Hammer 148 Naval Gun weighing 68 tons. A Typical Instance of War-time Traffic 173 Breakdown Crane and Lifting Tackle for Shipping Small Goods Engines 178 An Overseas Locomotive Panel "Severely Wounded" 178 Type of Overhead Travelling Crane, Built at Crewe and Supplied to the Overseas "Rearward Services" 180 "We, the Working Men of Crewe, will do all that is Humanly Possible to Increase the Output of Munitions, and Stand by our Comrades in the Trenches" 186 London and North-Western Railway War Memorial, Euston 210 Manufacture of a Hob-cutter, in "relieving" or "backing-off" lathe _Appendix C_ DEEDS OF A GREAT RAILWAY CHAPTER I BEING MAINLY HISTORICAL "England woke at last, like a giant, from her slumbers, And she turned to swords her plough-shares, and her pruning hooks to spears, While she called her sons and bade them Be the men that God had made them, Ere they fell away from manhood in the careless idle years." Thus it was that on that fateful morning of August 5th, 1914, England awoke, awoke to find herself involved in a struggle, the magnitude of which even the most well-informed, the most highly placed in the land, failed utterly, in those early days, to conceive or to grasp; in death-grips with the most formidable and long-since-systematically prepared fighting machine ever organised in the history of the world by master-minds, ruthless and cunning, steeped in the science of war. England awoke, dazed, incredulous, unprepared; in fact, to quote the very words of the Premier, who, when Minister of Munitions, was addressing a meeting at Manchester in the summer of 1915, "We were the worst organised nation in the world for this war." The worst organised nation! And this, in spite of repeated public utterances and threats coming direct to us from the world-aggressors, as to the import of which there never should, nor indeed could, have been any shadow of doubt.