The Other Man’s Job: Making Copper and Brass Tubes

Issue No.

S15/40

Date Released

3 Jan 1944

Stories in this Issue:

Story No. within this Issue: 1 / 4
Summary: At a Yorkshire works - refining copper, moulding it into "billets" which are treated in a pre-heated furnace, lengthened into tubes and cut to the required lengths. Process of manufacture seen in detail. Uses include: parts for ships’ boilers, engines, aircraft, radio sets etc.
Keywords: Industry and manufacture

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