Gulf States Steel Company, soaking pits and stripper crane. The stripped ingots on the ingot buggies are waiting to be placed in the pits, Note the very high rig on the crane to accommodate the hydraulic cyinders to operate the stripper
Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Blast furnaces Nos.1,2,3 &4 converted from lifting elevator charging buggie systen to tramways with platform carriers for the hand operated charging buggies.
Detail of Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Blast furnaces Nos.1,2,3 &4 converted from lifting elevator charging buggie systen to tramways with platform carriers for the hand operated charging buggies.
American Rolling Mill Company, Middletwon, Ohio, 70 ton Diesel stockyard locomotive. Moving a cut of loaded charging buggies near the open hearth furnaces, Note the spacer car behind the locomotive
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We haven't figured out yet whether the Smith family and the Jones family have come to blows over the right of way or whether they have merely stopped to compare notes on their respective horseless buggies. At any rate, the sight of two such...
Open top furnace with the charging hopper bell open to drop the charge into the furnace. The elevator for the workers bringing up the charging buggies can be partially seen to the right
Stone blast furnace, Boone, Kentucky, built 1857 with a iron bound upper stack. A trestle would have existed between the stone wall in the background and the top of the stack for the charging buggies to access the furnace top.
Lycra spandex fiber, wrapped in cellophane for shipping, is checked by inspectors at DuPont plant in Waynesboro, Virginia where the product is manufactured. This picture was taken as yarn buggies wait to be wheeled to the shipping area where the...
Lycra spandex fiber in production at the DuPont Company's plant in Waynesboro, Virginia undergoes a double check before shipping, Inspectress in background certifies yarn for shipping, wraps it in cellophane and racks it on shipping buggy. The...
The nitroglycerin used in dynamite manufacture travels over long wooden walks on rubber tired buggies in passage from process to process at a DuPont Company dynamite plant.
Aluminum covered conveyors snake across landscape, adding another weird touch to the Explosives Departments dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. By eliminating old style powder buggies, conveyors reduce handling and speed the manufacture.
