Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7523 Original wartime caption: Tin goods leaving NAAFI Stores. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7524 Original wartime caption: Tin goods leaving NAAFI Stores. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7525 Original wartime caption: NAAFI Grocer's shop in Military Camp issuing tin stores to Sergeant Cook. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7526 Original wartime caption: NAAFI Grocer's shop in Military Camp issuing tin stores to Sergeant Cook.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7527 Original wartime caption: Army Cook opening fish tin. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7528 Original wartime caption: Army Cook opening fish tins ready for tea meal. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7529 Original wartime caption: Cooks taking empty tins to incinerator.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7530 Original wartime caption: Empty tins being flattened and incinerated. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7531 Original wartime caption: Flattened and incinerated tins being bagged for despatch to salvage dump. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7532 Original wartime caption: Tins of every description arriving at salvage dump. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7533 Original wartime caption: Tins of every description arriving at salvage dump. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7534 Original wartime caption: Bags of incinerated and flattened tins all added to the pile.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7535 Original wartime caption: Sorting empty 5-gall. oil drums for re-issue. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7536 Original wartime caption: Inspecting the pile of tin prior to despatch to steelworks. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7537 Original wartime caption: Inspecting cocoa tins which will be re-issued for further use.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7539 Original wartime caption: The tins are dumped at the steelworks and are made into suitable sized bundles on a machine similar to that shown in the picture Nos.H.7546 and H.7547, which is used for pressing larger and heavier bundles for the steel furnaces. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7545 Original wartime caption: When the iron on the pig bed cools, it is broken up into sizes suitable for handling and is stacked by a magnet crane. As already said, steel is made of a mixture of steel scrap and iron, and so to follow the "TINS TO TANKS" let us see how steel is made. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7546 Original wartime caption: Light steel scrap is picked up by a magnet and dropped into the hopper of a very powerful press which compresses it to furnace size bundles. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7547 Original wartime caption: The bundles from the press are lifted by magnet crane and put into charging boxes. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7548 Original wartime caption: Heavy scrap like this gun carriage is cut into suitable sizes with oxy-acetylene blow pipe. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7549 Original wartime caption: Heavy scrap like these unexploded bombs are put straight into the charging boxes (some empty charging boxes can be seen in the foreground of H.7550).
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7540 Original wartime caption: The bundles are loaded on to the bell of the furnace which is situated at the very top. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7541 Original wartime caption: The other materials used are loaded into steel barrows from hoppers and conveyed by electric lift to the platform surrounding the furnace bell, and are emptied. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7542 Original wartime caption: On to the bell with the bundles of tins. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7543 Original wartime caption: The bell, or shall we say the structure which is supporting the burden is lowered into the furnace and huge flames pour out of the aperture. The tins have now started to be converted into iron. After the materials have been in the furnace some hours, they fall to the bottom of the furnace as iron and slag; the iron is taken from the furnace in ladles.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7538 Original wartime caption: In the background can be seen the upper half of the blast furnace and in the foreground men are preparing pig beds with moulds. The corrugated iron structure is mounted on rails and is pulled over the pig beds at night to prevent glare from showing. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7544 Original wartime caption: If it is wanted cold it is cast on to the pig beds.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7550 Original wartime caption: The boxes full of scrap are shunted into the steel furnace shop and are picked up by the charging crane and are pushed through the door of the furnace which is being held open by the two men. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7551 Original wartime caption: When the box is right in the furnace, the crane turns it over and the contents drop into the furnace bath. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7552 Original wartime caption: After the scrap has been heated for some time, the hot iron from the blast furnace is brought in in a huge ladle and poured into the furnace by way of a firebrick lined spout. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7553 Original wartime caption: From time to time after the metal has melted, samples of the molten metal are taken out for analysis and inspection, and here we see the steel furnace manager looking through coloured glasses at a sample which has just been removed. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7554 Original wartime caption: When a correct analysis has been obtained, the furnace is tapped and the molten steel pours into a ladle. At the bottom of the ladle are nozzles through which the steel is poured into ingot moulds.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7555 Original wartime caption: The ingots are then reheated and taken to the rolling mill and as they go through the rolls the section gets smaller. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7556 Original wartime caption: gets smaller SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7557 Original wartime caption: and smaller, until we see on the left hand side of the last picture, a long billet of steel coming out and on the right, another ingot being rolled. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7558 Original wartime caption: and smaller, until we see on the left hand side of the last picture, a long billet of steel coming out and on the right, another ingot being rolled. The steel is cut into billets of suitable lengths and sent out to the manufacturers of the tank parts. So you see that the tins which the Tommies are carrying are first made into iron, and from iron into steel ingots which are rolled to billets of a suitable length and section.
Creator: Mr. Taylor (Undefined) Production date: 27/02/1941 SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7559 Original wartime caption: Finished steel plate stores SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7560 Original wartime caption: Inspecting a tank track SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7561 Original wartime caption: Line of Hulls SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7562 Original wartime caption: Line of Hulls SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7563 Original wartime caption: Grinding a turret seat by electric grinder BRITAIN'S WAR INDUSTRY 1939-45 Catalogue number: H 7564 Cruiser tanks being constructed at a tank factory, 27 February 1941. SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7565 Original wartime caption: Assembling track guard SARDINE TINS TO TANKS Catalogue number: H 7566 Original wartime caption: Final inspection before leaving works.
Creator: Lieut Malindine (Undefined) Production date: 26/03/1941 FROM SARDINE TIN TO TANK Catalogue number: H 8454 Original wartime caption: An armful of empty tins which, as seen in this series of pictures, will ultimately be converted into steel to be used in the manufacture of armaments. FROM SARDINE TIN TO TANK Catalogue number: H 8455 Original wartime caption: An armful of empty tins which, as seen in this series of pictures, will ultimately be converted into steel to be used in the manufacture of armaments. FROM SARDINE TIN TO TANK Catalogue number: H 8456 Original wartime caption: "Save your tins". This soldier holds a salvaged sardine tin which will be converted into steel for the manufacture of armaments, possibly a tank.
