Thai Aluminum: Shape and Weld

Thai Aluminum: Shape and Weld

By Alan Haig-Brown When Khun Namchai Sakunchoknamchai was seven years old he like cars. So he built himself one out of wood. Decades later, he was building those big beautiful custom tour buses that are a feature of Thai roads. When he wanted a 30 million baht machine...
Old-style yard: Thai Teak and Cummins Diesel

Old-style yard: Thai Teak and Cummins Diesel

By Alan Haig-Brown From the early 17th to the mid 18th century the Dutch maintained a post on the Chao Phraya River near the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya. Today little remains of the old Dutch buildings but a fine new museum has been built on the site, Baan...