Historic Cover Archive
1953 to 1951
1953 to 1951
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) December 1953 Caption: The sign of the cross appears in this picture of a welder using inert gas arc welding in the fabricating of aluminum truck bodies at the plant of Masin and Kriz, Inc., at Englewood, New Jersey. It is estimated that the use of this welding method cut labor costs on the job by 50 percent.
) October 1953 Caption: Convair's XF2Y-l, Sea Dart, experimental delta-winged jet fighter seaplane is poised on its hydro-skids after test flights in San Diego, California. Today's light metals have played an important part in making this atomic age aircraft possible.
) August 1953 Caption: Stripped for shipment, Sikorsky helicopter is pulled into cargo compartment of C-124 Globemaster. The S-55 is almost entirely fabricated from magnesium sheet, has 100 magnesium castings.
) June 1953 Caption: Magnesium is the key metal in the fabrication of this rocket-propelled free-flight rocket produced at the National Advisory Commitee for Aeronautics at Wallops Island (Virginia) Field Station.
) April 1953 Caption: Aluminum and magnesium play an important role in the fabrication of this ulta-modern aircraft-the first tamden-rotor helicopter to be licensed by the CAA for commercial use. It was manufactured by McCulloch Motors Aircraft Division.
) February 1953 Caption: Ninety-nine percent pure magnesium ingots are prepared for shipping from the government-owned Manteca, California magnesium plant operated by the Kaiser Magnesium Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation.
) December 1952 Caption: This dramatic photograph shows aluminum foil being rolled at an Aluminum Company of America plant. Use of the foil is made in such widespread fields as agriculture, medicine, and the housewife's kitchen.
) October 1952 Caption: Hot rolled aluminum strip moves along run out table to coiler in Davenport, Louisiana, works of Aluminum Company of America. Coiled aluminum sheet is shown at right.
) August 1952 Caption: A giant Bullard Cut Master vertical turret lathe shown at the Ryan Aeronautical Company, San Diego, California, mills a section of an aluminum aircraft fuel tank. The machine weighs 32 tons and is 13 ft. high. Metal sections measuring from one-half inch to just under 7 ft. in height can be handled.
) June 1952 Caption: Pouring aluminum "Pig" from a crucible at Reynolds Metals Company's giant new $80-million aluminum reduction plant near Corpus Christi, Texas.
) April 1952 Caption: Longitudinal seams of one of the world's largest aluminum alloy aircraft drop tanks in production are spot welded with an Automatic Heliarc Machine at the Ryan Aeronautical Company in San Diego, California.
) February 1952 Caption: Magnesium castings of wheel hubs for the B-47 Jet Bomber, are being machined at the Pryor Manufacturing Company, Mansfield, Ohio.
) December 1951 Caption: Seam welding a flange joint of aluminum. (Photo courtesy of Aluminum Company of America.)
) October 1951 Caption: Machining aluminum tire matrix. (Photo courtesy Kaiser Aluminum, Inc.)
) August 1951 Caption: Tapping aluminum furnace. (Photo courtesy Reynolds Metals Co.)
) June 1951 Caption: Precision-grinding aluminum alloy piston for Model "G" Enterprise Diesel Engine. Aluminum pistons give greater H.P. with the same bore and stroke than heavier metals.
) April 1951 Caption: Pouring 1,000 lb. aluminum "Pigs" at Kaiser Aluminum's Mead plant.
) February 1951 Caption: Machining magnesium bomber wheel at the B. F. Goodrich Co.
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