Making Armstrong Gun (1920-1929)

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: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.