Marks Engineering Works

The workshop is over on Athipalayam Road. It’s number 67-8, right in the Swami Samarth Nagar area near Chinnavedampatty. Most days it’s just the sound of machines and metal clanging. We have been at Marks Engineering Works for a long time, dealing with all sorts of mechanical parts and repairs. The road outside, Nandivali Road, can get quite dusty, and we usually have grease on our hands by lunch. It’s a practical place where we just get down to work. We don't have a fancy front office or anything like that. You just walk into the shed where the tools are. People bring us things that are broken or need a specific part made, and we see what we can do. Sometimes a job takes longer than we thought because a machine acts up, but we stay until it’s sorted. It is hot in the afternoons, but we keep the fans going. We have built a bit of a name for ourselves just by being here every day and doing the work as it comes. There are a lot of engineering shops around, but we just focus on what is on our own workbench. It’s a lot of measuring, cutting, and welding. If you come by, you’ll probably find us mid-job, wearing our old work clothes. That’s just the way things are at the shop on Athipalayam Road.