Blackcountry Industries

[mallosa]

Not sure where to add this but just a thought, please feel free to move/remove if not needed

Accles and Pollock - Tube manufacturing and manipulation company
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Accles_and_Pollock

Albright and Wilson - Chemicals
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Albright_and_Wilson

William Hunt and Sons - Edge tool manufacturers
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/William_Hunt_and_Sons

[Annie**]

Hello members, I hope I have posted in the right forum - can anyone give me some idea of what a person working as a 'Bucking Maker' actually did or in what sort of industry they would have worked? I have never heard of 'Bucking' in relation to anything other than horses! I have come across this mentioned in the details of one of my ancestors - who at the time (c1920-30) was living in the Cradley Heath area.
Any info would be much appreciated.
Annie

[gardener]

Hi Annie
There is something called a bucking maker, a bit of hydraulic machinery. Might be connected.
Is the occupation from a marriage certificate or something? Could you post a cropped image of the words?
Is there an occupation from the 1911 census for the same person or family member, just to give a clue.

[SRD]

Google is your friend:

Buck
[buhk]
noun
1.
lye used for washing clothes.
2.
clothes washed in lye.
verb (used with object)
3.
to wash or bleach (clothes) in lye.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English bouken (v.); compare Middle Low German buken, büken to steep in lye, Middle High German būchen, bruchen

The same page also has

Buck
[buhk]
noun
1.
a sawhorse.
2.
Gymnastics. a cylindrical, leather-covered block mounted in a horizontal position on a single vertical post set in a steel frame, for use chiefly in vaulting.
3.
any of various heavy frames, racks, or jigs used to support materials or partially assembled items during manufacture, as in airplane assembly plants.
4.
Also called door buck. a doorframe of wood or metal set in a partition, especially one of light masonry, to support door hinges, hardware, finish work, etc.
verb (used with object)
5.
to split or saw (logs, felled trees, etc.).
Verb phrases
6.
buck in, Surveying, Optical Tooling. to set up an instrument in line with two marks.
Origin
1855-60; short for sawbuck

and from usage found on the web

The bucker used a bucking bar on the other side of the metal to smooth out the rivets.