A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER VII.—METAL WORKERS (NOT ELECTRO PLATE OR PRECIOUS METALS)

Sub-order 8.—Other Workers

256.—Riveters' Labourers

assistant holder-up: see bumper.
bumper, bumper-up ; assistant holder-up: assists holder-up (265) q.v. of riveting squad, where assistance is required on heavy work or in awkward places, by backing up holding-up hammer with another hammer.
catch boy, catcher, catcher boy: see rivet catcher.
heater, heater boy: see rivet heater.
rivet boy: (i) works bellows for rivet heater q.v. and throws or passes the rivets to riveter (255) or to rivet catcher q.v.;; (ii) a boy employed as rivet carrier or as rivet heater q.v.
rivet carrier ; rivet hander: carries hot rivets in shovel or tongs from fire to riveter or to holder-up (255) q.v. in riveting squad.
rivet catcher ; catch boy, catcher, catcher boy: catches or picks up, in tongs, hot rivets thrown to him by rivet boy q.v. or by rivet heater q.v. and passes them to riveter or to holder-up (255) q.v. in riveting squad; sometimes also inserts them .in rivet holes.
rivet counter: counts rivets, placed in position by riveters, for purposes of cost and wages calculations.
riveter's helper, riveter's labourer: general terms for workers assisting riveter (255) q.v. and includes bumper-up, rivet catcher, rivet carrier, rivet heater q.v.
rivet hander: see rivet carrier.
rivet heater, rivet man ; heater, heater boy, rivet warmer: heats rivets to required temperature for riveting in portable fire hearth, and throws or carries them, by means of tongs, either to riveter (255) q.v. or to rivet catcher q.v.
rivet warmer: see rivet beater.

From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain.