boilerhead

Updated: June 20, 2025

Curiously her eyes roved over all the levers and queer instruments. Certainly an engineer must have to carry a terrible lot in his head to know how to manage them. There was a little knob, for instance; if she were to give it a pull, something would happen somewhere, an explosion perhaps, dear knows what! She watched the hand of the indicator on the boilerhead fluttering around the figure 190.

Herbert Joseph Moorhouse - Every Man for Himself