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.