The Other Man’s Job. Making Copper Cables
Series
- Series Name
- Warwork News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- Blister copper is refined in furnace; white hot copper is moulded into bars and cooled. At mills, bars are made into copper rods which in turn become copper wire. This is coiled and stranded and made into cables which are then electrically tested. Copper transported to destination. Processes seen in detail.
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture
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- Name
- Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
- film@iwm.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film
- Phone
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- Fax
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- Address
- Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ - Notes
- The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
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