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New Axle Forging Method

September 1950

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New Axle Forging Method
  • Title
  • New Axle Forging Method
  • Date
  • September 1950
  • Identifier
  • 943.95038.GN
  • Description
  • Workers at the Wheel and Axle Division engaging in a new, more automated method of axle forging. The previous process of axle forging involved a team of several men manually moving a suspended axle into the hydraulic forging press.
  • Extent
  • 4 x 5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Steel industry and trade
    Homestead Steel Works
    Homestead Steel Works. Wheel and Axle Division
  • Geographic Subjects
  • McKees Rocks (Pa.)
  • Source
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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