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Title

Forging press making rough blank of gun barrel at steel plant.

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Item (linked) part of

National Film Board of Canada. Still Photography Division [graphic material] (R1196-14-7-E)

Bilingual equivalent

À l'aciérie, façonnage d'une ébauche de tube de canon au moyen d'une presse à forger

Date(s)

Dec. 1940

Place

Sorel, Quebec

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 photograph
Negative Film B/W - cellulose nitrate

Language of material

English

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)

90: Open
nil

Graphic (photo)
Copy negative PA-117536

90: Open

Item no. (creator)

WRM 454

Other accession no.

1971-271 NPC

Terms of use

Credit: National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / PA-117536
Restrictions on use: nil
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Photographer: Unknown.

Additional information

Series title

WRM

Signatures and inscriptions

"SOREL STEEL PLANT, P.Q. One of the huge forging presses in a Canadian gun plant squeezes a six-foot ingot into the rough blank of a gun barrel, nearly 14 feet in length. This press exerts a pressure of 2,500 tons to the square inch."

Subject heading

1. Industries - Defence.
2. Industries - Steel.

Source

Government

Other system control no.

DAPDCAP7381

MIKAN no.

3191687