. Canadian foundryman (1918). al found it an exceed-. ingly difficult matter to secure was a company who had long en-joyed the enviable reputation for producing a line of high-grade light grayiron castings, including stove trimmings,piano trimmings, piston rings for auto-mobile engines, hardware and noveltyspecialties, all of which required thehighest grade of pig iron. In addition tothis they had a department for the manu-facture of lischt steel castings in whichthey had just recently installed an elec-tric furnace of 500 lbs. capacity. Theyalso have a nickel-plating and polishi
. Canadian foundryman (1918). al found it an exceed-. ingly difficult matter to secure was a company who had long en-joyed the enviable reputation for producing a line of high-grade light grayiron castings, including stove trimmings,piano trimmings, piston rings for auto-mobile engines, hardware and noveltyspecialties, all of which required thehighest grade of pig iron. In addition tothis they had a department for the manu-facture of lischt steel castings in whichthey had just recently installed an elec-tric furnace of 500 lbs. capacity. Theyalso have a nickel-plating and polishingdepartment, a polished brass department,and a wire goods department, fullyequipped with electric welding machines,etc., but, unfortunately for them, none oftheir lines could be considered essentialfrom the standpoint of wining the war,and as a consequence they were debarredfrom securing the raw material withwhich to keep their works in all of this they cheerfully acquiesced,but in doing so they found themselves. WORKS OF THE BOWANVILLE FOUNDRY CO. THE Bowmanville Foundry Co.,whose works are shown in theaccompanying illustrations, canproudly claim the unique distinction ofbeing the pioneers in Canada of meltinggray iron for ordinary foundry purposesby electricity, and in doing so havedemonstrated to their own satisfactionas well as to that of others who haveseen the process in operation, that theelectric furnace in the iron foundry hasa future before it full of promise. Asevery foundryman is aware, the demandsupon the available iron supply duringthe years in which the war was in pro-gress were so great that it became neces-sary to conserve every possible pound of
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