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Show Authority on Steel Production. Sir Robert Hadfleld, who has been selected by the British government to assume charge of the engineering works that it has obtained power to take over for the manufacture of war material, is one of the greatest living liv-ing authorities on the production of steel. In addition to the Bessemer medal, which is the blue ribbon of the Iron and Steel institute of Great Britain, Brit-ain, he has received equally high awards from similar societies in almost al-most every country of the civilized world. Inventor of manganese steel, he is chairman of the HadDeld Steel Foundry company Ltd., at Sheffield, one of the biggest ordnance and projectile pro-jectile concerns in the United king dom, in fact, in the world. |