:00:00. > :00:07.This week, we meet a man with motor neurone disease, who
:00:08. > :00:10.is trying to preserve his voice for the future.
:00:11. > :00:21.And find out how to help red squirrels prosper.
:00:22. > :00:23.Welcome to Inside Out. I'm Paul Hudson.
:00:24. > :00:26.Tonight, we'll meet Jason, who has motor neurone disease.
:00:27. > :00:30.Find out how voice donors will help him speak with his own voice,
:00:31. > :00:34.even when he is no longer able to talk.
:00:35. > :00:44.I just don't want to be a programmed voice on a computer.
:00:45. > :00:46.Also tonight, how putting grey squirrels on the pill
:00:47. > :00:55.And later in the programme, the engineering company which helped
:00:56. > :00:58.build everything from the Taj Mahal to the Sopwith Camel.
:00:59. > :01:17.This was a time when Britain were engineers to the world.
:01:18. > :01:19.Now, Jason Liversidge has motor neurone disease,
:01:20. > :01:22.and it affects every aspect of his life, and he will
:01:23. > :01:26.But a clinic in Scotland is using voice donors to try to help
:01:27. > :01:29.create a voice for him, and the idea is that rather than him
:01:30. > :01:31.sounding like a robot, his new computerised voice
:01:32. > :01:33.will sound as close to him as possible, together
:01:34. > :01:37.Three years ago, Jason Liversidge was diagnosed
:01:38. > :01:44.In that time, it has caused his muscles to waste and to weaken.
:01:45. > :01:46.Lily, what would you like? Broccoli!
:01:47. > :01:51.Are you having broccoli for breakfast?
:01:52. > :01:57.Some mornings can be quite chaotic, and because Jason obviously needs
:01:58. > :02:00.help with everything, unfortunately, he has to wait till
:02:01. > :02:06.last, because I've got to get up and get the girls ready and make
:02:07. > :02:09.sure they're ready for school. It's better when the carer's here.
:02:10. > :02:11.I try my hardest not to be rough with him,
:02:12. > :02:14.but I have been known to drag him around a bit.
:02:15. > :02:17.Being cared for is something Jason's had to get used to,
:02:18. > :02:21.Each week can bring a new difficulty.
:02:22. > :02:33.I mean, the whole thing is frustrating, but probably one
:02:34. > :02:38.I think sometimes, Jason would rather struggle than ask
:02:39. > :02:40.anybody to help him, because for him, it's
:02:41. > :02:42.obviously about his pride and his dignity and,
:02:43. > :02:44.you know, sometimes I know he's struggling, but I won't attempt
:02:45. > :02:47.to help him until he asks me, because he doesn't always
:02:48. > :02:52.Very early on, it was, Jason couldn't use his hands,
:02:53. > :02:54.so he would find things like doing buttons incredibly difficult.
:02:55. > :03:00.He then lost the ability to dress himself, and then he started
:03:01. > :03:06.Then he was not able to walk unaided, and it is that constant
:03:07. > :03:21.He is not even able to pick the girls up and give them a cuddle.
:03:22. > :03:31.There are some things Jason has had to accept he may never do again.
:03:32. > :03:33.And the disease means he will eventually be
:03:34. > :04:02.There are no greater heights to aspire to them the stars.
:04:03. > :04:05.There are no greater heights to aspire to than the stars.
:04:06. > :04:07.Professor Stephen Hawking is perhaps the most famous sufferer
:04:08. > :04:16.I think you will agree with me that it is absolutely fantastic.
:04:17. > :04:19.This is Jason, giving a speech at his sister's wedding.
:04:20. > :04:21.For those of you who aren't familiar, our father
:04:22. > :04:23.passed away quite some time ago, and...
:04:24. > :04:26.Jason will also have a computerised voice, but he wants
:04:27. > :04:31.It has been left to me to give her away, I'd like to say
:04:32. > :05:03.So when you talk, out of the computer, it will
:05:04. > :05:11.There's a research clinic in Edinburgh that can help.
:05:12. > :05:14.The Anne Rowling Clinic was set up by Harry Potter author JK
:05:15. > :05:17.The Anne Rowling Clinic was set up by Harry Potter author
:05:18. > :05:19.JK Rowling after her mother had multiple sclerosis.
:05:20. > :05:20.It specialises in degenerative diseases.
:05:21. > :05:25.It has a project trying to create personal synthetic voices.
:05:26. > :05:29.Your voice is as identifiable to other people as your face is.
:05:30. > :05:33.You know, and is very unique to you, so being able to preserve
:05:34. > :05:36.that, I think, is very important for people.
:05:37. > :05:38.There are already other personalised systems,
:05:39. > :05:40.but they need to record the patient's voice
:05:41. > :05:48.This University of Edinburgh project is different.
:05:49. > :05:50.When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act
:05:51. > :05:57.Previously, methods have needed to take maybe 8-10 hours of speech,
:05:58. > :06:00.which is an awful lot for anybody, let alone if you have a condition
:06:01. > :06:03.where you tire quite easily, or speech is starting to become
:06:04. > :06:10.a problem, or what we can do is ill voices using as little as about 20
:06:11. > :06:13.to become a problem, but what we can do is build voices
:06:14. > :06:15.using as little as about 20 minutes' worth of speech.
:06:16. > :06:18.And they aim to repair the flaws in a patient's voice using donors.
:06:19. > :06:21.When Jason came to record his voice, it was still very clear,
:06:22. > :06:23.you could still understand everything he was saying,
:06:24. > :06:26.but you could hear it was starting to become a bit more effortful,
:06:27. > :06:28.perhaps a little bit more slurred sounding,
:06:29. > :06:31.so it may not sound exactly how he used to sound, and that's
:06:32. > :06:33.where we would use more of those donor voices.
:06:34. > :06:39.And one of the first volunteers is his best friend, Phil.
:06:40. > :06:41.Jason and I went to school together from being, oh,
:06:42. > :06:46.From being so active, skiing, driving, to go from that
:06:47. > :06:50.lifestyle to this one, I just can't imagine.
:06:51. > :06:54.So, how does he feel about donating his voice?
:06:55. > :06:57.We're from the same area, we got a similar accident,
:06:58. > :07:01.We're from the same area, we got a similar accent,
:07:02. > :07:04.so yeah, it was just, of course I'm going to do it.
:07:05. > :07:08.Is there anything in your head sort of strange about the idea
:07:09. > :07:10.of your voice getting blended with Jason's?
:07:11. > :07:13.I think, because it's blended, it's less of a problem.
:07:14. > :07:19.I think if it was my voice and I was to ring him and speak
:07:20. > :07:22.to me on the other end of the phone, then maybe that would be
:07:23. > :07:28.So, when that writing turns red, if you can read it out for me,
:07:29. > :07:34.Yeah. Here we go.
:07:35. > :07:38.Ask her to bring these things with her from the store.
:07:39. > :07:41.Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese,
:07:42. > :07:44.and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.
:07:45. > :07:47.The sentences do seem a bit strange, but they've been specially selected
:07:48. > :07:50.so that we can capture all those speech sounds that we need
:07:51. > :07:53.when we create this synthetic voice, so rather than trying to record
:07:54. > :07:56.every single word in the dictionary, we capture all those sounds
:07:57. > :08:00.so that we can use them in any other word in which they occur.
:08:01. > :08:08.OK. Thank you.
:08:09. > :08:10.Right, are you going to get in the van?
:08:11. > :08:12.Getting all the donors will take months.
:08:13. > :08:14.In the meantime, Jason and Liz work hard to keep
:08:15. > :08:20.Jason is still able to drive and adapted vehicle,
:08:21. > :08:27.Jason is still able to drive an adapted vehicle, and it means
:08:28. > :08:29.a lot to him to do normal dad things, like take
:08:30. > :08:44.It's really important for us that we try to get out
:08:45. > :08:48.and about with the girls and make as many memories as possible.
:08:49. > :08:55.We are trying to compile lots of video and photographs we've
:08:56. > :08:57.taken of Jason and the girls together, so later on,
:08:58. > :08:59.when Jason's no longer here, the girls will have
:09:00. > :09:02.something to look back upon, something to remember him by.
:09:03. > :09:04.It has been more than a year since Jason recorded his voice.
:09:05. > :09:07.21 men from Yorkshire have become donors and read out
:09:08. > :09:14.Now, Jason is back in Edinburgh to hear his blended and synthesised
:09:15. > :09:20.voice for the first time. But will it sound like him?
:09:21. > :09:25.Using eye movements, Jason selects letters
:09:26. > :09:30.on his computer to type out what he wants to say.
:09:31. > :09:33.It can be slow, but predictive text helps.
:09:34. > :09:38."This is the first time I have heard my new voice."
:09:39. > :09:44.That's pretty good. Yeah, that is, yeah.
:09:45. > :09:51.I would definitely recognise it as Jason.
:09:52. > :09:55.Today is my birthday and we are staying at Edinburgh
:09:56. > :09:56.tonight with no kids. Woo-hoo!
:09:57. > :10:04.It doesn't have the same excitement, I don't think!
:10:05. > :10:09.It may not be able to perfectly express emotion, but this melting
:10:10. > :10:13.pot of his own and all the donor voices has given
:10:14. > :10:29."This is the first time I have heard my new voice."
:10:30. > :10:33.And don't forget, if you've got any views on tonight's programme,
:10:34. > :10:36.or you've got a story you think we might like to cover,
:10:37. > :10:38.you can get in touch on Facebook or on Twitter.
:10:39. > :10:42.The engineers to the world with a hand in everything
:10:43. > :10:48.from the Taj Mahal to the Sopwith Camel.
:10:49. > :10:52.Now, grey squirrels might look cute, and many of us, the only
:10:53. > :10:55.Now, grey squirrels might look cute, and to many of us, the only
:10:56. > :11:00.But they are considered a pest, and the only way to keep
:11:01. > :11:04.Keeley Donovan has been finding out whether contraception is a more
:11:05. > :11:07.humane weapon in the fight against the greys and to
:11:08. > :11:19.But under the leafy canopy, deadly aliens are on the loose.
:11:20. > :11:24.And the villain here, causing millions of pounds of damage,
:11:25. > :11:28.and upsetting forest ecosystems, is an innocent looking
:11:29. > :11:34.little woodland creature, the grey squirrel.
:11:35. > :11:41.The grey squirrels very clever man will -- mammal, and it is basically
:11:42. > :11:42.outsmarted man for decades. If we get one grey squirrel with
:11:43. > :11:49.out our native reds. If we get one grey squirrel with
:11:50. > :11:51.squirrel pox into this area, we can lose our entire population here.
:11:52. > :11:53.Chemical controls, including contraceptives, have so far failed.
:11:54. > :11:57.Culling remains the only viable method of keeping numbers down.
:11:58. > :12:00.The chaps are out most mornings trying to shoot them.
:12:01. > :12:06.But this could all be about to change.
:12:07. > :12:08.Victorian aristocrats get the blame for introducing grey
:12:09. > :12:14.bringing them in from America and releasing them into parks.
:12:15. > :12:19.The animals adapted rather too well, and numbers swelled.
:12:20. > :12:21.There are now around three million of them in the UK,
:12:22. > :12:26.One of their first crimes was to squeeze out Britain's
:12:27. > :12:31.There are now only about 15,000 left in England,
:12:32. > :12:36.But there is one small corner of the Yorkshire Dales where red
:12:37. > :12:49.Simon, this is a wonderful spot, isn't it?
:12:50. > :12:53.Yeah, it's great. We are very lucky to have them here in this part of
:12:54. > :12:55.Yorkshire, and people still don't realise that there are Red Square
:12:56. > :12:59.roles in Yorkshire. Seeing this close is just
:13:00. > :13:04.incredible, isn't it? Yes, they are very bold. They start
:13:05. > :13:08.off very shy, but they soon work out this is their home, they are the
:13:09. > :13:16.boss, and they will do anything they want. That is greedy! You have a
:13:17. > :13:20.ready got one in there! If this was ever an icon of British wildlife,
:13:21. > :13:23.this is it. If you ask people to draw a squirrel, this is usually
:13:24. > :13:26.what they draw, despite that most people haven't seen one.
:13:27. > :13:34.I can't believe how close we can get!
:13:35. > :13:37.Simon has been photographing the squirrels for years. They are just
:13:38. > :13:39.inspiring tins of our British wildlife.
:13:40. > :13:42.Unfortunately, we need to carry out this work to reduce the number of
:13:43. > :13:43.grey squirrels. That involves killing any grey
:13:44. > :13:47.squirrel that comes near. If the Wensleydale reds came
:13:48. > :13:50.in contact with a grey, they could pick up the fatal
:13:51. > :13:56.squirrel pox virus. We knew that there were reds Upper
:13:57. > :14:00.Dale, and we only seeing greys coming through here. We thought, if
:14:01. > :14:04.we can control the greys, at least we are protecting those reds there.
:14:05. > :14:08.Eventually, we controlled the greys, and we left it squirrel free for a
:14:09. > :14:10.while, and then the reds started to come down.
:14:11. > :14:15.squirrels? squirrels?
:14:16. > :14:19.You have seen them, you have filmed them. They are to Lily wonderful
:14:20. > :14:21.creatures, but apart from anything else, they are native. And I think
:14:22. > :14:25.it is really important to protect and encourage as many of our native
:14:26. > :14:27.healthy ecosystem, to live in the healthy ecosystem, to live in the
:14:28. > :14:28.woods, and balance the whole population.
:14:29. > :14:30.The grey squirrel is officially an alien invasive species.
:14:31. > :14:33.It is legal to kill them in a humane way.
:14:34. > :14:40.It's against the law to release one into the wild.
:14:41. > :14:42.Some people argue that it's unrealistic to expect reds
:14:43. > :14:45.So why not let reds and greys co-exist?
:14:46. > :14:49.All animals are welcome at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary,
:14:50. > :14:59.They have special permission to take in grey squirrels.
:15:00. > :15:06.We are licensed to keep and release them here, because we are nowhere
:15:07. > :15:09.near red squirrels, and we have visits from Natural England, and
:15:10. > :15:12.they are very happy with our facilities. We have your basic
:15:13. > :15:15.regulations. You think grey squirrels get a bad
:15:16. > :15:22.rap. Why is that? Out of all the tarmac killed, 53% of
:15:23. > :15:27.those are killed on roads, and 2% by pox. Blaming beat grey swirls alone
:15:28. > :15:30.for the red squirrels' decline, it is nothing in comparison to human
:15:31. > :15:31.activity. I don't think killing greys is the answer.
:15:32. > :15:34.There are two issues here ? it's not just the threat to reds,
:15:35. > :15:36.grey squirrels are attacking our native woodland.
:15:37. > :15:39.Not like this with chainsaws, but by chipping away at tree bark.
:15:40. > :15:41.A nightmare for places like the Yorkshire Arboretum,
:15:42. > :15:44.home to a priceless collection of tree species.
:15:45. > :15:50.How much of a problem are squirrels here?
:15:51. > :15:53.They are a terrible nuisance. They do some damage to the collection, to
:15:54. > :15:57.the trees all round. And really they cause a lot of problems, killing
:15:58. > :15:59.things, or just simply damaging them.
:16:00. > :16:03.What exactly do they do? This is a classic example, how they
:16:04. > :16:07.have stripped the bark in this section and indeed, up and down the
:16:08. > :16:10.tree. This really now is a completely wrecked tree.
:16:11. > :16:13.So the tree is missing its bark. It is not going to get its food and
:16:14. > :16:17.drink? Absolutely. And how common is this
:16:18. > :16:23.kind of damage in the Arboretum? Very frequent. These are invasive
:16:24. > :16:26.species. There is a sycamore here, there are others over here which are
:16:27. > :16:32.just wrecked. This sort of damages everywhere.
:16:33. > :16:34.Squirrels have been wreaking woodland having fears.
:16:35. > :16:36.In the 1950s, a despairing government organised a mass
:16:37. > :16:40.Farmers were paid a shilling a tail to rid the countryside
:16:41. > :16:43.The squirrels responded by breeding in bigger numbers.
:16:44. > :16:46.They now cause an estimated ?17 million a year of damage,
:16:47. > :16:54.and are threatening the future of our woodland.
:16:55. > :16:59.We will have major changes in the UK in terms of our landscape if we do
:17:00. > :17:06.not control grey squirrels. The damage that they are doing to trees
:17:07. > :17:09.is immense. At the moment, landowners get grants
:17:10. > :17:13.to keep squirrel numbers down. Most mornings, this time of year,
:17:14. > :17:16.the chaps are out checking the traps or shooting.
:17:17. > :17:19.It must be difficult for somebody who loves nature to have to kill a
:17:20. > :17:25.species? Of course it is. We would prefer not
:17:26. > :17:27.to. Some other form of control would be fantastic.
:17:28. > :17:30.For years, scientists have been trying to perfect a less brutal way
:17:31. > :17:32.of controlling the grey squirrel population without killing
:17:33. > :17:39.A team at Sheffield University spent most of the 1990s working
:17:40. > :17:46.We are reasonably optimistic and confident at the moment.
:17:47. > :17:48.Once outside of the lab, it worked well on those
:17:49. > :17:50.squirrels that picked up the contraceptive-laced nuts.
:17:51. > :17:52.Unfortunately, half of them didn't take the bait,
:17:53. > :18:03.Bearing in mind that it is very expensive now to do shooting and
:18:04. > :18:06.trapping, we're talking about getting on for ?60 a squirrel, we
:18:07. > :18:06.have to find some sort of game changer.
:18:07. > :18:08.So they have charged another set of scientists,
:18:09. > :18:11.at the government lab in North Yorkshire, to try again.
:18:12. > :18:14.And they think they may this time have cracked a way of getting
:18:15. > :18:26.It would be a paste. It would go in a dispenser, and the beauty is that
:18:27. > :18:28.the grey squirrel would have to eat it, actually at the face, at the
:18:29. > :18:32.dispenser. So because it is in this kind of
:18:33. > :18:34.liquid form, they must eat it straightaway?
:18:35. > :18:38.Exactly. Within the bay, we would make sure we have a UV marker, so
:18:39. > :18:42.when the squirrel feeds on this, the market would get onto its whiskers,
:18:43. > :18:45.and at the grey squirrel goes back into the woodland, we can actually
:18:46. > :18:47.see where it is, and actually just how effective we have been with this
:18:48. > :18:48.dispensing device. They hope these contraceptive
:18:49. > :18:49.dispensers could be dotted through our woodlands
:18:50. > :19:00.within five years. Just looking forward, how could this
:19:01. > :19:03.potentially change the squirrel populations?
:19:04. > :19:07.I think it could be massive. The modelling we have done shows that we
:19:08. > :19:09.could actually reduce the breeding population of grey squirrels by
:19:10. > :19:15.about 70%. What with that then do to the reds?
:19:16. > :19:18.Well, what would happen is, actually, reds are very good at
:19:19. > :19:23.coming into grey squirrel areas, and you would see a whole new range of
:19:24. > :19:31.reds moving south into Yorkshire, and that is enormously exciting.
:19:32. > :19:40.Here is a quiz question for you. What is the connection between the
:19:41. > :19:43.Taj Mahal, the Ealing film studios, Grimsby fishing trawlers, and the
:19:44. > :19:49.Sopwith Camel? Well, they are all powered by engines built by Rustons
:19:50. > :19:51.and Horby, engineer to the world, a strike here in Lincoln. -- Rustons
:19:52. > :19:52.and Hornby. A few years ago, a photographer
:19:53. > :20:04.wandered into an old factory I was the last company full-time
:20:05. > :20:07.photographer. We were in here to do a quick shoot. We walked into this
:20:08. > :20:10.room and kind of stopped. When you realise what you have got here,
:20:11. > :20:17.there were tracking and tracking and boxes and boxes of glass slides,
:20:18. > :20:19.glass negatives. Cine films. The whole thing was just an Aladdin's
:20:20. > :20:23.cave. He had come across one of the most
:20:24. > :20:28.complete records of British industrial history, the archives of
:20:29. > :20:35.engineering firm Ruston and Hornby. Behind me, this is their factory,
:20:36. > :20:38.but at one time, this whole area was covered in engineering firms.
:20:39. > :20:48.This is an old catalogue, about 1900. And it shows the variety, at
:20:49. > :20:52.your Mendis variety of stuff they made.
:20:53. > :20:54.Farmer's son Joseph Ruston started this empire by making
:20:55. > :20:58.So maybe it's appropriate that I'm visiting a garden shed to learn
:20:59. > :21:07.You wouldn't necessarily think of a big engineering plant coming from
:21:08. > :21:10.Lincoln. Lincoln is thought by most people
:21:11. > :21:17.who don't know it as an agricultural town. Being an agricultural town,
:21:18. > :21:23.they needed agricultural implements. But then, the age of steam came. The
:21:24. > :21:25.Industrial Revolution. This was a time when Britain were engineers to
:21:26. > :21:26.the world. Ruston had both an eye for business
:21:27. > :21:29.and for new inventions. Like steam powered diggers,
:21:30. > :21:44.sold to the builders At that time, all can now is on
:21:45. > :21:48.railways were adored by manual Irish Labour, -- all canals, and there
:21:49. > :21:54.were so much work going on, that the price of their labour had
:21:55. > :21:55.skyrocketed. They put in an order for 71 Ruston nappies, very good for
:21:56. > :22:06.Ruston. -- navvies. You can chart the history of the
:22:07. > :22:10.products they have developed over the last century and a half.
:22:11. > :22:16.Certainly, the diesel engine, in conjunction with two three from
:22:17. > :22:20.and oil engine invented by Herbert and oil engine invented by Herbert
:22:21. > :22:25.Stuart Ackroyd was first made in Grantham by Richard Hornsby. History
:22:26. > :22:31.shows that Rudolf diesel proved better at filing patents, but in its
:22:32. > :22:34.day, the Hornsby- Ackroyd engine was used the world over, including in
:22:35. > :22:36.the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal, and the generator that
:22:37. > :22:42.powered Marconi's first transatlantic wireless signal.
:22:43. > :22:48.I think engineers by nature horde stuff, because they think that they
:22:49. > :22:52.need to refer back to it, and of course, that is the beauty about the
:22:53. > :22:55.archive. Yes, the archive, that stature
:22:56. > :22:56.pictures and documents, telling Roston's history.
:22:57. > :22:59.Photographer Phil had told friends at the University about the hoard
:23:00. > :23:02.Coincidentally, Siemens were looking for a new home
:23:03. > :23:10.But few places could take such a mass of material.
:23:11. > :23:20.One of our key goals was to try and keep them intact, with the help of
:23:21. > :23:21.Professor David slide from the University. We put together a plan
:23:22. > :23:23.to try to keep them together. That plan was to place the whole lot
:23:24. > :23:25.in the Lincolnshire Archive, and open it up to the public,
:23:26. > :23:38.putting it online. We saw it on site down at First
:23:39. > :23:41.Road, and had a slight panic! I am trained as a historian and an
:23:42. > :23:46.activist, so this is quite alien to me. We needed help, both of
:23:47. > :23:51.knowledge and of just hands doing a physical scanning.
:23:52. > :23:54.It was time to call in the engineers ? volunteers with Ruston knowledge,
:23:55. > :23:59.handy when identifying what was in all the boxes.
:24:00. > :24:04.We would just collaborate between each other, and bounced ideas about,
:24:05. > :24:07.and we have virtually seen everything from the early days of
:24:08. > :24:13.the 1850s right up to modern day gas turbines.
:24:14. > :24:17.I actually found a photograph of me in about 1970!
:24:18. > :24:22.So I am actually in the archives! So I am actually in the archives!
:24:23. > :24:24.It is Lincoln's history, and in no way should be destroyed or lost or
:24:25. > :24:26.forgotten about. That history includes a few
:24:27. > :24:40.missed opportunities, That man, Roberts, he was the first
:24:41. > :24:47.engineer who was the brains behind the development of the engine, and
:24:48. > :24:52.the track vehicles. There was a special stretch and Skegness beach
:24:53. > :24:54.that was the equivalent of Daytona Sands in America, where they had
:24:55. > :24:58.these things go through their trials.
:24:59. > :25:07.The caterpillar is a huge American company now. -- caterpillar is.
:25:08. > :25:12.Yes, because two three's failed to convince the army and they failed to
:25:13. > :25:14.convince the farmers that the Americans -- but the Americans were
:25:15. > :25:18.wiser. They paid ?4000 for the patents, and
:25:19. > :25:23.a few years later, when World War I came about, we were paying them.
:25:24. > :25:26.Definitely the one got away. Definitely.
:25:27. > :25:29.At the end of World War I, the companies merged.
:25:30. > :25:31.Hornsby's had an empty order book. But Rustons were flying high.
:25:32. > :25:33.They'd spent the war making aeroplanes.
:25:34. > :25:35.This factory behind me was where they built nearly
:25:36. > :25:42.For the next 50 years, engines of every size and shape left
:25:43. > :25:45.And the company kept up Joseph Ruston's knack
:25:46. > :25:55.'In the precise language of the engineer, it's a gas turbine.
:25:56. > :26:02.One of the marvels of the century marbles.
:26:03. > :26:04.Ruston's wanted a part of the new jet technology developed
:26:05. > :26:17.These then technical director was then sent to a -- to recruit the top
:26:18. > :26:23.man to develop the gas turbine. Today, we are one of the major
:26:24. > :26:29.industrial gas turbine manufacturers, where our products
:26:30. > :26:32.are used on oil pipelines, offshore, so lots of the North Sea equipment,
:26:33. > :26:36.and the same in the Middle East. The online archive's growing ?
:26:37. > :26:38.they're uploading 2,000 images And that's only a fraction of what's
:26:39. > :26:49.going to be made available. I hope people use of research, of
:26:50. > :26:52.course. There are a lot of people who are still interested in the old
:26:53. > :26:55.diesel engines. When you start reading into it and going through
:26:56. > :26:56.stuff, it really is. There's a thriving community
:26:57. > :26:58.of people restoring Not surprisingly, Ray Hooley
:26:59. > :27:01.has been involved in One of his longest term projects
:27:02. > :27:08.began in the late '70s, hauling a 1904 steam navvy out
:27:09. > :27:11.of a flooded quarry. It took me two years
:27:12. > :27:26.to assemble divers. Machinery, cranes, and so on, to
:27:27. > :27:31.dismantle this machine underwater and then lift it out in pieces,
:27:32. > :27:34.bring it back to Lincoln, and get it restored.
:27:35. > :27:36.40 years and two museums later, the navvy is back in action at
:27:37. > :27:44.In 1966, in a world of corporate takeovers,
:27:45. > :27:52.Nowadays, you only see those names on old restored engines.
:27:53. > :27:55.But the business is still here in Lincoln.
:27:56. > :27:58.Several changes of owner later, as Siemens, it's still the city's
:27:59. > :28:03.largest private employer, they're still making gas turbines,
:28:04. > :28:05.and they're working with the University to provide
:28:06. > :28:17.Something to be proud of. Lincoln always was an engineering
:28:18. > :28:22.city, so it is something to keep it for future generations, I believe.
:28:23. > :28:31.It is working. Keep it working. I think it is important that people
:28:32. > :28:35.know it not just as Siemens, but how it started. It is our history, isn't
:28:36. > :28:36.it? Our heritage. For Lincoln and for England.
:28:37. > :28:47.APPLAUSE That is all from us here in Lincoln.
:28:48. > :28:55.Make sure you join us next week. We will reveal how one leading
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:29:00. > :29:01.historical architectural gems in the Yorkshire waltz, and telling you how
:29:02. > :29:05.to find gold in Scunthorpe.