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Steel bars for shells
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Steel bars for shells

Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · 1916

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"The white-hot bars, escaping from the jaws, writhe and twist about, raising in agony their fiery heads, then either climb a long incline into the light or squirm down into dark pits. Then they come out into a great shed or a great yard, and there they lie awhile to cool, till they are again seized by cranes or moving platforms, and brought to the guillotine, which cuts them into the lengths for shells." Joseph Pennell.

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