Towering by the side of this building is the huge blast furnace—the only one in the South of England, which consumes approximately 2,000 tons of coke, limestone and ore every The foundries at Dagenham make Some of the most intricate castings in the world—such as the Ford V-8 cylinder—block—demanding high-quality iron of accurate analysis, and the Ford blast furnace is designed io produce iron of this high grade. Like other sections of this great works it is a marvel of almost entirely automatic control The man in charge knows what is taking place at every point; before him in the control room are graphs and charts on which needles trace the story of every happening.
The blast furnace, too, provides one of the finest spectacles in industry—hundreds of tons of molten metal pouring in a glowing stream into 75-ton ladles.
Fascinating sections of the factory are those in which these vast quantities of white-hot metal are handled, In the hot metal house a ant crane lifts the ladles with the ease of a man w a cup of tea and empties the contents into a great drum, where it is kept hot until required. The iron is then tipped into ladles which transfer to smaller mixers, in ich it is alloyed with steel to give extra wear-resisting qualities, The Ford Works is the only motor factory in Britain producing its own iron and thus manufacturing from the raw materials stage.
The British Government on Thursday accepted the American proposal establish an international committee to facilitate the emigration of refugees persecuted in certain European nations for their political or religious beliefs,
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