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Show Water Active Agent in I Making of Big Shells I Covering several acres in tho midst H of a densely populated area of Lon- H don, and known tersely to tho people H of the neighborhood as "The Project- JM He," Is a factory where thousands ofi H big shells are being turned out. H Water is the active agent in the H work of manufacture. A number of H engines force water through pipes H laid underground to a hydraulic ram H weighted with a hundred tons of H scrap iron. When the weight reaches H a certain height it automatically cuts H off the steam supply and so stops the H engines. H Shells have their beginnings In obr H long Ingots of steel which aro deliver. H ed to the company In that form ready H for molding. They are heated In H sneclally constructed furnaces to a H temperature of 2,000 -degrees. After H the heating, the Ingots are put H through molds. Copper bands are H fixed to rho base of the shaped shells, H to glTe the necessary spin when fired. H pierced to receive the exploding fuse, jH is affixed and tho shellB Is ready orr 9M delivery to the government. 3 jH - Shell-maklng'ls a matter of rigid ao jH curacy and scrupulous care. Guages H of tho most exacting nature are used, H and no latitude in the matter of weight H or dimensions is allowed. Admiralty H and war office offlcals aro aways on H the promises, applying their own IH teBts, and a shell is accepted and paid H for only when the official approval Is i H permanently stamped on it by means H a die. H |