| Fragmentation Plant | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1765 |
| Catalog #: | 425375 | |
| Clip Number: | 425375-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-082-06 | |
| Timecode: | 00:10:37 - 00:11:27 | |
| Location: | England | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENVIRONMENT: Recycling INDUSTRY: Metal, Iron & Steel LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England | |
| Description: | "The first of England's four Fragmentation Plants goes into action, reducing old, abandoned automobiles to small pieces of metal scrap in fifteen seconds. It also handles all waste metals like a giant sausage grinder." TLS/LSs metal grinder in a metal reclamation plant (junkyard); large pile of junk metal; a crane's claw drops a car into the grinder. MSs scrap metal rolling over large drum & onto conveyer belt that carries it upward, and then drops it into a waiting train car. A tractor affixed with a magnet lifts metal from a pile, swings right, and then drops it into a train car. TLS crane outfitted with magnets dropping scarp metal into railcar. MS magnet swinging about, picking up scrap, dropping it into car. | |
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