Rotors and Stators cast in half-a-minute by Cookley’s Pressure Die Casting

Series

Series Name

Ingot Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

11

Date Released

1952

Length of issue (in feet)

1688

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The New Nevills
2. 2Redbourn’s Cogging Mill has new electronic drive
3. 3How we used to do it
4. 4RTB help to break the record at Monte Carlo!
5. 5Another Apprentice School
6. 6Rotors and Stators cast in half-a-minute by Cookley’s Pressure Die Casting
7. 7Prodigy at Play

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 7

Summary

NFA synopsis: Shows die casting machine at work at the Cookley works, with stampings and lamanations. It is also shown how the Cookley works cast complete rotors and stators for commercial electric motors. The processes involved in casting stators are given, including: fettling, dipping in bondarising solution, and the final stators. The pressure die casting of rotors are also seen.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

National Film Archive Catalogue   Used for synopsis
Film User   Vol.6 No.68 June 1952, p298.

Credits:

Producer

Denis Ward

Cutter

Derrick A. Gladwell

Commentator

Howard Marshall

Sponsor

Richard Thomas and Baldwins Group

Production Co.

Technical & Scientific Films Ltd.

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