I've been part of the counterbalance team feeding 8ft long x 9inch thick steel billets into the furnace in the boilershop smithy at Horwich. Bloody hot when they lifted the doors.
Even hotter still when we came to fish it out and swing it over to the press. The shop crane was fixed to the wall, and could swing 180°. Travel on the boom was manual push or pull. Vertical lift was hydraulic using water pressurised from the boilershop
The combined heat from the furnace and billet made your face sting and your overalls steam. Interesting work and happy days as a spotty apprentice.
There was another film on the same page showing a 7 day teardown and rebuild of a steam loco. Rebored too in 7days!
"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"