Show manufacture R E OF BULLETS a 1 american experts are adopting french methods for the manufacture of bullets for shrapnel and shrapnel bombs in the first months of the war the french made all the bullets in molds and the best that could be achieved by this hand method was the production of about bullets in a day clay by ten workmen by machinery now in ill use ten workmen produce bullets a day the french manufacturers cast tile the lead alloy and antimony into to cylindrical in gots each weighing pounds the ingots ingols are placed in a hydraulic press which runs the lead into twelve wires the wires being woynd upon wooden bobbins have a capacity of a ton from the bobbins the wires are fed into a hydraulic punch and thus twelve lead spheres are cut from the wires at one operation the spheres are placed in ill r revolving g barrels and rendered smooth |