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This week, we meet a man with motor neurone disease, who | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
is trying to preserve his voice for the future. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
And find out how to help red squirrels prosper. | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
Welcome to Inside Out. I'm Paul Hudson. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Tonight, we'll meet Jason, who has motor neurone disease. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Find out how voice donors will help him speak with his own voice, | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
even when he is no longer able to talk. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
I just don't want to be a programmed voice on a computer. | :00:35. | :00:44. | |
Also tonight, how putting grey squirrels on the pill | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
And later in the programme, the engineering company which helped | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
build everything from the Taj Mahal to the Sopwith Camel. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
This was a time when Britain were engineers to the world. | :00:59. | :01:17. | |
Now, Jason Liversidge has motor neurone disease, | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
and it affects every aspect of his life, and he will | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
But a clinic in Scotland is using voice donors to try to help | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
create a voice for him, and the idea is that rather than him | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
sounding like a robot, his new computerised voice | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
will sound as close to him as possible, together | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Three years ago, Jason Liversidge was diagnosed | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
In that time, it has caused his muscles to waste and to weaken. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Lily, what would you like? Broccoli! | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Are you having broccoli for breakfast? | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Some mornings can be quite chaotic, and because Jason obviously needs | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
help with everything, unfortunately, he has to wait till | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
last, because I've got to get up and get the girls ready and make | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
sure they're ready for school. It's better when the carer's here. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
I try my hardest not to be rough with him, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
but I have been known to drag him around a bit. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Being cared for is something Jason's had to get used to, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Each week can bring a new difficulty. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
I mean, the whole thing is frustrating, but probably one | :02:22. | :02:33. | |
I think sometimes, Jason would rather struggle than ask | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
anybody to help him, because for him, it's | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
obviously about his pride and his dignity and, | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
you know, sometimes I know he's struggling, but I won't attempt | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
to help him until he asks me, because he doesn't always | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
Very early on, it was, Jason couldn't use his hands, | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
so he would find things like doing buttons incredibly difficult. | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
He then lost the ability to dress himself, and then he started | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
Then he was not able to walk unaided, and it is that constant | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
He is not even able to pick the girls up and give them a cuddle. | :03:07. | :03:21. | |
There are some things Jason has had to accept he may never do again. | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
And the disease means he will eventually be | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
There are no greater heights to aspire to them the stars. | :03:34. | :04:02. | |
There are no greater heights to aspire to than the stars. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Professor Stephen Hawking is perhaps the most famous sufferer | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
I think you will agree with me that it is absolutely fantastic. | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
This is Jason, giving a speech at his sister's wedding. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
For those of you who aren't familiar, our father | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
passed away quite some time ago, and... | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
Jason will also have a computerised voice, but he wants | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
It has been left to me to give her away, I'd like to say | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
So when you talk, out of the computer, it will | :04:32. | :05:03. | |
There's a research clinic in Edinburgh that can help. | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
The Anne Rowling Clinic was set up by Harry Potter author JK | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
The Anne Rowling Clinic was set up by Harry Potter author | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
JK Rowling after her mother had multiple sclerosis. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
It specialises in degenerative diseases. | :05:20. | :05:20. | |
It has a project trying to create personal synthetic voices. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Your voice is as identifiable to other people as your face is. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
You know, and is very unique to you, so being able to preserve | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
that, I think, is very important for people. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
There are already other personalised systems, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
but they need to record the patient's voice | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
This University of Edinburgh project is different. | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Previously, methods have needed to take maybe 8-10 hours of speech, | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
which is an awful lot for anybody, let alone if you have a condition | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
where you tire quite easily, or speech is starting to become | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
a problem, or what we can do is ill voices using as little as about 20 | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
to become a problem, but what we can do is build voices | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
using as little as about 20 minutes' worth of speech. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
And they aim to repair the flaws in a patient's voice using donors. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
When Jason came to record his voice, it was still very clear, | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
you could still understand everything he was saying, | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
but you could hear it was starting to become a bit more effortful, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
perhaps a little bit more slurred sounding, | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
so it may not sound exactly how he used to sound, and that's | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
where we would use more of those donor voices. | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
And one of the first volunteers is his best friend, Phil. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
Jason and I went to school together from being, oh, | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
From being so active, skiing, driving, to go from that | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
lifestyle to this one, I just can't imagine. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
So, how does he feel about donating his voice? | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
We're from the same area, we got a similar accident, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
We're from the same area, we got a similar accent, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
so yeah, it was just, of course I'm going to do it. | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
Is there anything in your head sort of strange about the idea | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of your voice getting blended with Jason's? | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
I think, because it's blended, it's less of a problem. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
I think if it was my voice and I was to ring him and speak | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
to me on the other end of the phone, then maybe that would be | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
So, when that writing turns red, if you can read it out for me, | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Yeah. Here we go. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Ask her to bring these things with her from the store. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
The sentences do seem a bit strange, but they've been specially selected | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
so that we can capture all those speech sounds that we need | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
when we create this synthetic voice, so rather than trying to record | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
every single word in the dictionary, we capture all those sounds | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
so that we can use them in any other word in which they occur. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
OK. Thank you. | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
Right, are you going to get in the van? | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Getting all the donors will take months. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
In the meantime, Jason and Liz work hard to keep | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
Jason is still able to drive and adapted vehicle, | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Jason is still able to drive an adapted vehicle, and it means | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
a lot to him to do normal dad things, like take | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
It's really important for us that we try to get out | :08:30. | :08:44. | |
and about with the girls and make as many memories as possible. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
We are trying to compile lots of video and photographs we've | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
taken of Jason and the girls together, so later on, | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
when Jason's no longer here, the girls will have | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
something to look back upon, something to remember him by. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
It has been more than a year since Jason recorded his voice. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
21 men from Yorkshire have become donors and read out | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Now, Jason is back in Edinburgh to hear his blended and synthesised | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
voice for the first time. But will it sound like him? | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
Using eye movements, Jason selects letters | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
on his computer to type out what he wants to say. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
It can be slow, but predictive text helps. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
"This is the first time I have heard my new voice." | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
That's pretty good. Yeah, that is, yeah. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
I would definitely recognise it as Jason. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
Today is my birthday and we are staying at Edinburgh | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
tonight with no kids. Woo-hoo! | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
It doesn't have the same excitement, I don't think! | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
It may not be able to perfectly express emotion, but this melting | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
pot of his own and all the donor voices has given | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
"This is the first time I have heard my new voice." | :10:14. | :10:29. | |
And don't forget, if you've got any views on tonight's programme, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
or you've got a story you think we might like to cover, | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
you can get in touch on Facebook or on Twitter. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
The engineers to the world with a hand in everything | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
from the Taj Mahal to the Sopwith Camel. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
Now, grey squirrels might look cute, and many of us, the only | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
Now, grey squirrels might look cute, and to many of us, the only | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
But they are considered a pest, and the only way to keep | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Keeley Donovan has been finding out whether contraception is a more | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
humane weapon in the fight against the greys and to | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
But under the leafy canopy, deadly aliens are on the loose. | :11:08. | :11:19. | |
And the villain here, causing millions of pounds of damage, | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
and upsetting forest ecosystems, is an innocent looking | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
little woodland creature, the grey squirrel. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
The grey squirrels very clever man will -- mammal, and it is basically | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
outsmarted man for decades. If we get one grey squirrel with | :11:42. | :11:42. | |
out our native reds. If we get one grey squirrel with | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
squirrel pox into this area, we can lose our entire population here. | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
Chemical controls, including contraceptives, have so far failed. | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
Culling remains the only viable method of keeping numbers down. | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
The chaps are out most mornings trying to shoot them. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
But this could all be about to change. | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Victorian aristocrats get the blame for introducing grey | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
bringing them in from America and releasing them into parks. | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
The animals adapted rather too well, and numbers swelled. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
There are now around three million of them in the UK, | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
One of their first crimes was to squeeze out Britain's | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
There are now only about 15,000 left in England, | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
But there is one small corner of the Yorkshire Dales where red | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Simon, this is a wonderful spot, isn't it? | :12:37. | :12:49. | |
Yeah, it's great. We are very lucky to have them here in this part of | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Yorkshire, and people still don't realise that there are Red Square | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
roles in Yorkshire. Seeing this close is just | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
incredible, isn't it? Yes, they are very bold. They start | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
off very shy, but they soon work out this is their home, they are the | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
boss, and they will do anything they want. That is greedy! You have a | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
ready got one in there! If this was ever an icon of British wildlife, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
this is it. If you ask people to draw a squirrel, this is usually | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
what they draw, despite that most people haven't seen one. | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
I can't believe how close we can get! | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
Simon has been photographing the squirrels for years. They are just | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
inspiring tins of our British wildlife. | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
Unfortunately, we need to carry out this work to reduce the number of | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
grey squirrels. That involves killing any grey | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
squirrel that comes near. If the Wensleydale reds came | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
in contact with a grey, they could pick up the fatal | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
squirrel pox virus. We knew that there were reds Upper | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Dale, and we only seeing greys coming through here. We thought, if | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
we can control the greys, at least we are protecting those reds there. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Eventually, we controlled the greys, and we left it squirrel free for a | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
while, and then the reds started to come down. | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
squirrels? squirrels? | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
You have seen them, you have filmed them. They are to Lily wonderful | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
creatures, but apart from anything else, they are native. And I think | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
it is really important to protect and encourage as many of our native | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
healthy ecosystem, to live in the healthy ecosystem, to live in the | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
woods, and balance the whole population. | :14:28. | :14:28. | |
The grey squirrel is officially an alien invasive species. | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
It is legal to kill them in a humane way. | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
It's against the law to release one into the wild. | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
Some people argue that it's unrealistic to expect reds | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
So why not let reds and greys co-exist? | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
All animals are welcome at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
They have special permission to take in grey squirrels. | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
We are licensed to keep and release them here, because we are nowhere | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
near red squirrels, and we have visits from Natural England, and | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
they are very happy with our facilities. We have your basic | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
regulations. You think grey squirrels get a bad | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
rap. Why is that? Out of all the tarmac killed, 53% of | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
those are killed on roads, and 2% by pox. Blaming beat grey swirls alone | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
for the red squirrels' decline, it is nothing in comparison to human | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
activity. I don't think killing greys is the answer. | :15:31. | :15:31. | |
There are two issues here ? it's not just the threat to reds, | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
grey squirrels are attacking our native woodland. | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
Not like this with chainsaws, but by chipping away at tree bark. | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
A nightmare for places like the Yorkshire Arboretum, | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
home to a priceless collection of tree species. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
How much of a problem are squirrels here? | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
They are a terrible nuisance. They do some damage to the collection, to | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
the trees all round. And really they cause a lot of problems, killing | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
things, or just simply damaging them. | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
What exactly do they do? This is a classic example, how they | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
have stripped the bark in this section and indeed, up and down the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
tree. This really now is a completely wrecked tree. | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
So the tree is missing its bark. It is not going to get its food and | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
drink? Absolutely. And how common is this | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
kind of damage in the Arboretum? Very frequent. These are invasive | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
species. There is a sycamore here, there are others over here which are | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
just wrecked. This sort of damages everywhere. | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
Squirrels have been wreaking woodland having fears. | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
In the 1950s, a despairing government organised a mass | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
Farmers were paid a shilling a tail to rid the countryside | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
The squirrels responded by breeding in bigger numbers. | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
They now cause an estimated ?17 million a year of damage, | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
and are threatening the future of our woodland. | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
We will have major changes in the UK in terms of our landscape if we do | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
not control grey squirrels. The damage that they are doing to trees | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
is immense. At the moment, landowners get grants | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
to keep squirrel numbers down. Most mornings, this time of year, | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
the chaps are out checking the traps or shooting. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
It must be difficult for somebody who loves nature to have to kill a | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
species? Of course it is. We would prefer not | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
to. Some other form of control would be fantastic. | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
For years, scientists have been trying to perfect a less brutal way | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
of controlling the grey squirrel population without killing | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
A team at Sheffield University spent most of the 1990s working | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
We are reasonably optimistic and confident at the moment. | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Once outside of the lab, it worked well on those | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
squirrels that picked up the contraceptive-laced nuts. | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
Unfortunately, half of them didn't take the bait, | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
Bearing in mind that it is very expensive now to do shooting and | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
trapping, we're talking about getting on for ?60 a squirrel, we | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
have to find some sort of game changer. | :18:07. | :18:06. | |
So they have charged another set of scientists, | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
at the government lab in North Yorkshire, to try again. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
And they think they may this time have cracked a way of getting | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
It would be a paste. It would go in a dispenser, and the beauty is that | :18:15. | :18:26. | |
the grey squirrel would have to eat it, actually at the face, at the | :18:27. | :18:28. | |
dispenser. So because it is in this kind of | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
liquid form, they must eat it straightaway? | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
Exactly. Within the bay, we would make sure we have a UV marker, so | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
when the squirrel feeds on this, the market would get onto its whiskers, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
and at the grey squirrel goes back into the woodland, we can actually | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
see where it is, and actually just how effective we have been with this | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
dispensing device. They hope these contraceptive | :18:48. | :18:48. | |
dispensers could be dotted through our woodlands | :18:49. | :18:49. | |
within five years. Just looking forward, how could this | :18:50. | :19:00. | |
potentially change the squirrel populations? | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
I think it could be massive. The modelling we have done shows that we | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
could actually reduce the breeding population of grey squirrels by | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
about 70%. What with that then do to the reds? | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Well, what would happen is, actually, reds are very good at | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
coming into grey squirrel areas, and you would see a whole new range of | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
reds moving south into Yorkshire, and that is enormously exciting. | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
Here is a quiz question for you. What is the connection between the | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
Taj Mahal, the Ealing film studios, Grimsby fishing trawlers, and the | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
Sopwith Camel? Well, they are all powered by engines built by Rustons | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
and Horby, engineer to the world, a strike here in Lincoln. -- Rustons | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
and Hornby. A few years ago, a photographer | :19:52. | :19:52. | |
wandered into an old factory I was the last company full-time | :19:53. | :20:04. | |
photographer. We were in here to do a quick shoot. We walked into this | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
room and kind of stopped. When you realise what you have got here, | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
there were tracking and tracking and boxes and boxes of glass slides, | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
glass negatives. Cine films. The whole thing was just an Aladdin's | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
cave. He had come across one of the most | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
complete records of British industrial history, the archives of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
engineering firm Ruston and Hornby. Behind me, this is their factory, | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
but at one time, this whole area was covered in engineering firms. | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
This is an old catalogue, about 1900. And it shows the variety, at | :20:39. | :20:48. | |
your Mendis variety of stuff they made. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Farmer's son Joseph Ruston started this empire by making | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
So maybe it's appropriate that I'm visiting a garden shed to learn | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
You wouldn't necessarily think of a big engineering plant coming from | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
Lincoln. Lincoln is thought by most people | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
who don't know it as an agricultural town. Being an agricultural town, | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
they needed agricultural implements. But then, the age of steam came. The | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Industrial Revolution. This was a time when Britain were engineers to | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
the world. Ruston had both an eye for business | :21:26. | :21:26. | |
and for new inventions. Like steam powered diggers, | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
sold to the builders At that time, all can now is on | :21:30. | :21:44. | |
railways were adored by manual Irish Labour, -- all canals, and there | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
were so much work going on, that the price of their labour had | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
skyrocketed. They put in an order for 71 Ruston nappies, very good for | :21:55. | :21:55. | |
Ruston. -- navvies. You can chart the history of the | :21:56. | :22:06. | |
products they have developed over the last century and a half. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Certainly, the diesel engine, in conjunction with two three from | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
and oil engine invented by Herbert and oil engine invented by Herbert | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Stuart Ackroyd was first made in Grantham by Richard Hornsby. History | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
shows that Rudolf diesel proved better at filing patents, but in its | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
day, the Hornsby- Ackroyd engine was used the world over, including in | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal, and the generator that | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
powered Marconi's first transatlantic wireless signal. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
I think engineers by nature horde stuff, because they think that they | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
need to refer back to it, and of course, that is the beauty about the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
archive. Yes, the archive, that stature | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
pictures and documents, telling Roston's history. | :22:56. | :22:56. | |
Photographer Phil had told friends at the University about the hoard | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Coincidentally, Siemens were looking for a new home | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
But few places could take such a mass of material. | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
One of our key goals was to try and keep them intact, with the help of | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
Professor David slide from the University. We put together a plan | :23:21. | :23:21. | |
to try to keep them together. That plan was to place the whole lot | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
in the Lincolnshire Archive, and open it up to the public, | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
putting it online. We saw it on site down at First | :23:26. | :23:38. | |
Road, and had a slight panic! I am trained as a historian and an | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
activist, so this is quite alien to me. We needed help, both of | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
knowledge and of just hands doing a physical scanning. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
It was time to call in the engineers ? volunteers with Ruston knowledge, | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
handy when identifying what was in all the boxes. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
We would just collaborate between each other, and bounced ideas about, | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
and we have virtually seen everything from the early days of | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
the 1850s right up to modern day gas turbines. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
I actually found a photograph of me in about 1970! | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
So I am actually in the archives! So I am actually in the archives! | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
It is Lincoln's history, and in no way should be destroyed or lost or | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
forgotten about. That history includes a few | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
missed opportunities, That man, Roberts, he was the first | :24:27. | :24:40. | |
engineer who was the brains behind the development of the engine, and | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
the track vehicles. There was a special stretch and Skegness beach | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
that was the equivalent of Daytona Sands in America, where they had | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
these things go through their trials. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
The caterpillar is a huge American company now. -- caterpillar is. | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
Yes, because two three's failed to convince the army and they failed to | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
convince the farmers that the Americans -- but the Americans were | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
wiser. They paid ?4000 for the patents, and | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
a few years later, when World War I came about, we were paying them. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Definitely the one got away. Definitely. | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
At the end of World War I, the companies merged. | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
Hornsby's had an empty order book. But Rustons were flying high. | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
They'd spent the war making aeroplanes. | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
This factory behind me was where they built nearly | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
For the next 50 years, engines of every size and shape left | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
And the company kept up Joseph Ruston's knack | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
'In the precise language of the engineer, it's a gas turbine. | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
One of the marvels of the century marbles. | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
Ruston's wanted a part of the new jet technology developed | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
These then technical director was then sent to a -- to recruit the top | :26:05. | :26:17. | |
man to develop the gas turbine. Today, we are one of the major | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
industrial gas turbine manufacturers, where our products | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
are used on oil pipelines, offshore, so lots of the North Sea equipment, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
and the same in the Middle East. The online archive's growing ? | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
they're uploading 2,000 images And that's only a fraction of what's | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
going to be made available. I hope people use of research, of | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
course. There are a lot of people who are still interested in the old | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
diesel engines. When you start reading into it and going through | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
stuff, it really is. There's a thriving community | :26:56. | :26:56. | |
of people restoring Not surprisingly, Ray Hooley | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
has been involved in One of his longest term projects | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
began in the late '70s, hauling a 1904 steam navvy out | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
of a flooded quarry. It took me two years | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
to assemble divers. Machinery, cranes, and so on, to | :27:12. | :27:26. | |
dismantle this machine underwater and then lift it out in pieces, | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
bring it back to Lincoln, and get it restored. | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
40 years and two museums later, the navvy is back in action at | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
In 1966, in a world of corporate takeovers, | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
Nowadays, you only see those names on old restored engines. | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
But the business is still here in Lincoln. | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
Several changes of owner later, as Siemens, it's still the city's | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
largest private employer, they're still making gas turbines, | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
and they're working with the University to provide | :28:04. | :28:05. | |
Something to be proud of. Lincoln always was an engineering | :28:06. | :28:17. | |
city, so it is something to keep it for future generations, I believe. | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
It is working. Keep it working. I think it is important that people | :28:23. | :28:31. | |
know it not just as Siemens, but how it started. It is our history, isn't | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
it? Our heritage. For Lincoln and for England. | :28:36. | :28:36. | |
APPLAUSE That is all from us here in Lincoln. | :28:37. | :28:47. | |
Make sure you join us next week. We will reveal how one leading | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
supermarket's special offers and what they seem, discovering | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
historical architectural gems in the Yorkshire waltz, and telling you how | :29:00. | :29:01. | |
to find gold in Scunthorpe. | :29:02. | :29:05. |