
December 1956
Caption: Mold for aluminum casting made by frozen mercury process is broken by pneumatic hammer. (Photo courtesy of Alloyed Precision Castings Co., Cleveland, Ohio.)

October 1956
Caption: Tapered aluminum wing sections which heve been formed by new Cyril Bath combination stretch and compression method machine.

August 1956
Caption: The world's largest aluminum die forging - made by Aluminum Company of America.

June 1956
Caption: Stacking aluminum billets. (Photo courtesy Kaiser Aluminum Co.)

April 1956
Caption: Titanium ore is charged into chlorinator at Titanium Metals Corporation of America plant in Henderson, Nevada.

February 1956
Caption: Aluminum die cast engine blocks - largest die castings ever made - being produced at Doehler Jarvis by the world's largest die casting machine.

December 1955
Caption: The 84-inch reversing coil mill is equipped with an up coiler capable of rolling continuous coils of magnesium sheet.

October 1955
Caption: Manipulator places stock on huge dies of press at Cleveland, Ohio, works of Aluminum Company of America.

August 1955
Caption: Removing "D. C." (direct-chilled) cast ingot from mold at Massena, New York works of Aluminum Company of America.

June 1955
Caption: Slitting aluminum foil at the Permanente, California, mill of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company.

April 1955
Caption: Extrusion being stretched in 3,000,000-pound stretcher at Alcoa's Lafayette, Ind., works.

February 1955
Caption: Inspecting internal expansion rings used to control the heating of titanium for jet engine afterburner shrouds made at Chance Vought.

December 1954
Caption: Extruded aluminum pipe just emerging from a 4000-ton hydraulic extrusion press at the Lafayette, Indiana, Works, Aluminum Company of America.

October 1954
Caption: Fabricating bin nests from Kaiser Aluminum.

August 1954
Caption: Aluminum rings being inert gas welded at Ryan Aircraft Co.

June 1954
Caption: Workman buffing an aluminum panel.

April 1954
Caption: Reynolds Metals Co. workmen tying huge rolls of aluminum sheet.

February 1954
Caption: At Great Falls, Montana, mill of Anaconda Wire & Cable Company, a machine cables stranded aluminum steel-reinforced conductor.