Citizen Machine Tools

Working at 9850 Kot Mangal Singh means you get used to the noise early on in the day. Citizen Machine Tools is right in the thick of it. The street is usually crowded with people and scooters squeezing past each other to get through. We’ve been at this spot for years, and the floor is permanently stained from all the oil spills we couldn’t quite scrub out. We don’t really do much advertising around here. People just know we are here by word of mouth. My brother and I usually handle the main work ourselves. It’s a lot of heavy lifting and making sure the lathes are running right. The roof leaks a little when it rains hard in July, but we just put a bucket under it and keep going with the work. We have a small desk near the front where we keep the ledgers. It’s messy with papers and old pens that barely work. Sometimes customers come in just to chat about the weather or the local news before they even ask about a part they need. We like it that way. Kot Mangal Singh is a tight neighborhood. You see the same faces every morning when the shutters go up. We don't have a website or anything like that. If someone wants to see what we have, they just walk through the door at 9850. It’s better to talk face to face anyway. The iron smell stays on your clothes even after you go home.