The shafting for the machinery was under the floor, as was a tramway for trucks to remove the cutting waste.
In the 19th century, the flywheels were powered by leather drive belts attached to line shafting, which in turn ran to a steam plant.
For example, there will be an independent majority, but a publicly-owned minority, in the following products: bright steel bars, steel shaftings, steel forgings, wire, wrought iron, and iron castings.
In the same way the standing machinery, all the shafting and all the main structural fixtures of the manufactory will be part of the rateable value.
Under this system, you save the weight of the propeller and the shafting and so on, but you have to carry a large amount of additional fuel.
I understand that the victim of this accident had climbed up to some unfenced overhead shafting in order to mount a belt, and got carried round the shaft.
Shafting, pulleys, belts, flywheels and similar machinery will have to have guards of adequate strength unless these components are safely positioned out of the way of workers.
Among the things which are frequently responsible for accidents are power takeoff shafts, chain, belt and gear drives, belts and pulleys, shafting, circular saws, stationary engines and electrical equipment.
