Making Armstrong Gun (1920-1929)
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Making Armstrong Whitworth factory. Newcastle and London.
Industry; weapons. Step-by-step film of the making of a large Armstrong gun at the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company. factory in England. Some very good industrial footage; c. 1910's or1920's. Workers take pieces of pig iron from a huge pile and load them onto a container which is lifted by a chain. Workers tossing pig iron and speigeleisen into Siemans Furnace; to make steel. Shot of liquid metal running into a big vat; a steam & sparks rise from vat.
More white hot metal pours down another chute. Man walks by 84 Ton steel ingot. Hydraulic press molds gun barrel. CU man operating machine to shape barrel into cylinder. ECU hand holding tangled spirals of steel; 1/2 thick;More shots include gun barrel emerging from furnace; being lowered into oil pit; wrapped w/ wire; being smoothed by machines. CU completed breach mechanism opening & closing. Testing t he gun; team loads and fires. BOOM! War; military; manufacturing
FILM ID:2422.21
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It's amazing how hard the old-timers used to work!
Safety wasn't a big deal. No masks or any eye protection.
And people were so much faster in those days. Jk
Cannot get enough of these genuine videos from 100 odd years ago
Truly remarkable what man can do when the task is important enough. The development of the industry for arms was a massive undertaking and clearly a dangerous profession for the workers.
Wonderful to see these old films. Thank you.
shame it didn't have sound, the noises in the Armstrong works were legendary, when you walked past the huge bangs and clanks of huge metal things, steam hammers and presses, the constant steam whistle of the pressure valves, the sounds from the blast furnaces, the rumbling of trains, the pubs across the road (120 at one point) the brown ale bottles would vibrate and you could see the resonating of the vibrations on top of the beer like someone dropped a stone in a pond, unlike most factories the Armstrong works did everything in one long (over 1 mile) factory, other factories things would be made and transported and assembled at different fabricaton sheds. but at Armstrong's Scotswood road plant, raw ores went in one end and tanks and guns rolled out of the other end, and in peacetime cranes and hydraulic rams etc came out the end instead of weapons, I drive past it often and it is smaller than it was when I was a kid but it is still very big,
the pubs alone are very interesting, every trade and occupation had its own pub and was named after a job, machine or trade, The Hydraulic crane, the forge, the press, the boilermakers, the carpenters, etc etc, union subs would be paid at these pubs on the last Friday of the month and all were very busy with men 6 deep at the bar when the knock-off-whistle blew at 5pm, from the factory gates to the bar was the width a road, some bars were no bigger than someone's sitting room on the end of terrace house and some like the Hydraulic Crane was huge, the last of the pubs vanished about ten years back, I've been camping on the Otterburn testing grounds many times, they MOD still test guns there and when the red flag is flying they close the public access road, one time they flew a helicopter 50 foot above us to see who we were when testing a tracked howitzer, it looks like a tank but has no turret and a much bigger gun, it was loud, as it flew through the sky you could hear it crackle and the thud when it landed, it didn't have an explosive shell just a metal shell the size of kitchen bin,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of this place. You’ve added the ability to appreciate the din of the activity.
Date seems a bit wrong - 12 inch L/50 guns were used in the St. Vincent, Neptune and Colossus classes of Dreadnought battleships all completed prior to WW1 -as were those fitted to Spanish battleships of which some still exist as they were landed as coastal instalations, however as the test shows RN personnel working the gun on proofing mounting they must be the St. Vincent, Neptune and Colossus Class guns -as is apparent as the wire winding of the gun was a type favoured by the British.
It seems this piece was filmed in 1908 or earlier- an identical video with poorer quality is uploaded on the BFI/British Film Institute archive as "Birth of a Big Gun"
Interesting that this same movie can be seen but with German subtitles
The guy runs up the ladder to stand on the crucible as it pours its load, cloth cap shirt sleeves & waistcoat, H & S Executive is for cissies.
Looks much earlier than 1920!
This seems to reuse much of the film from “Birth of a Big Gun”. Most of the film is the same, and the titles translate almost exactly from the German titles of the earlier film.
The good ol' days when nobody gave a s**t about safety and health...
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why cutting out part of history just to fit your video format??
Yes, ridiculous.
They probably just made a mistake when scanning, I doubt it was intentional
Before criticizing undertake such a production yourself.
Zero safety