Boston Trade High School - Craftsman Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Installing a Propeller Explanation of the Jet Engine fire Gfirpfazze Slzop At the present moment our national defense is primarally based on manned aircraft. This situation is likely to continue for a long time. High speed passenger and freight transportation depends on this to, therefore, we need and will need a growing number of skilled airplane mechanics. Boston Trade High School offers a four year course designed to set boys well on their way in acquiring that skill. Among the subiects covered are the theory of aerodynamics, fabric work, sheet metal work, welding, wood- working, and other things connected with the trade. The boys study different kinds of airplane engines and learn to dismantle ond re-assemble aircraft engines, a necessary thing if they are going to know how to maintain air- craft power units in efficient operation. As a consequence of this training our boys are ready at gradution either to enter advanced technical schools to further their knowledge or to go directly into industry as apprentice air- plane mechanics. Airframe Proiect Welding Protect

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611 Slwp 3 X.. Z lfflf rr c tough Qhog Superlnten ent Most of our boys have found theur work and nn that foct they enloy a certaln advantage ofer others an Iooknng forword to a happy lufe ln the follovvlng pages you will see how tn fourteen separate shops we of the Boston Trade Hugh School try to advance trade mnnded ooys tn tle trade of thenr chonce so that they may become untellrqent torn petent apprentuces an lndustry Our shop Teachers ond those who tcach related shop work have been well tranned In lndustry before they chose as their lnfe work the traunung of others ID theur specual flelds Our atm as to develop skull safe practice and team work nn all of our shops By accompltshlng these thlngs we hope to add to the general usefulness of our graduotes to themselves and to the communtty and to sncrease the prospects of happuness of all those trade mlnded boys who have all ready taken such a large step toward their contentment un havtnq found tl'-err work ,twat-'-s'l hr 1-

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L an Engine Repai Front End Repair uiomoflve epair li the past many a wheelwright, by necessity, became somewhat ot an automoble mechanic. Now, also by a diflerent necessity, many of our automobile mechanics in industry must become essential cogs in our mach- automoble mechanics in industry must become essential cogs in our mach- inery of national defense, because our nation depends so much upon skilled mechanics for the making and testing ot protective devices needed by it. Here at Boston Trade High School we attempt to train such mechonics, either for general or specific automotive work. For that reason our shop is divided into three: the body, the mechanical, and the electrical shop. All boys must pass through all three, the younger boys dealing with simpler operations and as their skill indicates, progressing to more complicated jobs. Through this three way division our boys learn to handle any ordinary automotive iob which would come into a general repair shop, and they, if especially in- clined, and usually are, well trained to serve the public in common auto- mobile troubles, and their nation and themselves if the occasion should demand. Ignition Work Distributor Testing