Show AMERICAN MUNITIONS UNSATISFACTORY S SA YS ENGlAND NEW NE YORK I A Aug 17 American American makers must conform to European standards If it they would do business with foreign n military commissions In the opinion of ot Capt Horace G. G Tarr general manager of or orthe the tho R. R D. D Dood Wood company compan of ot Phila Phila- delphia This company equipped all the Canadian shrapnel plants and mot most of or tho those lc In the United States Slates Captain Tarr personally supervising the building and Installation of ot the machinery machinery- Captan Tarr who has been here hero for several days as a's In connection with the erection of ot a n new war plant at Hackensack N. N J. J b by the American and British Manufacturing company of ot the construction and operation of which he Is Js to have havo charge said yesterday When England first asked us to tomake tomake tomake make shrapnel for her we did not know how to do It The result was waa the first consignment of ot shells wo we shipped was as not worth powder to touch them off ort and could not be used It w was like firing solid shot so far tar w were re the they below the European stand ard Europe was greatly disappointed disappoint disappoint- ed ed and we heard something drop good and hard The Tho trouble was that with the first sniff of ot war orders we 13 thought any old machine shop and an any old tools would turn out tho the ammunition and I that all aU we had hat to do was to lo change I a peaceful to a warlike product with the same facilities But we quickly I learned that for tor wr whit Is required In Inthis Inthis inthis this modern war old equipment must mustI I be replaced b by new and special machinery machinery ma ma- chinery and tools No ordinary lathe will turn out a shell that Is If It an any use on a European battlefield today As soon as we made the special shrapnel machinery and tools we wo had no more difficulty difficult In living up to the foreign specifications We Ya know the game ame now and our capacity for first class work Is Increasing dally daily The United States produces the best steel In the world The strongest strong strong- est ret point In our steel Is Its ity We e make a broader range of ot quality than n an any other country From the Edison phonograph which contains con con- contains t the finest steel made and razor steel we 0 run up to the steel rail and andIn andIn andin In all we are unexcelled But there thero Is a n great difference between the fineness and strength of ot steel For the high grade h shells demanded In Europe there must be 10 a tensile strength of ot from to pounds to the square Inch The complaint of ot some American Amen Ameri can call Ca manufacturers r that Canadian plants are permitted to furnish Caststeel cast caststeel caststeel steel projectiles In place of ot the forged shells specified applies s I think to the earl early stages of ot tho the war when we did the same thing It ma may be that foreign arsenals I will change chang thair specifications for shrapnel to be used In trench work so go that many small plants will be able to market the cast steel shells sheilA which they can make without installing the expensive equipment necessary for tor producing the forged projectiles But It Is a n fact act that high explosives es are needed for trench work for fOl the h hc heavier ier the pressure the more deadly the shell Cast steel in Is all right for a bomb but I do not think any cast bombs are made In this country Thc They are all of forged steel so 80 far tar as I know And It Is of ot much greater Importance that shrapnel should be of ot the highest forged grade grad France makes all aU her munitions but she turns out her shrapnel with American machinery We e have shipped more hydraulic presses and hammers to France than to an any other country countI |