. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . THE EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDRY. At the Windsor Street Works of the Gas Department are situated theexperimental foundry and hardening shops, having a floor space of about 1,700square feet, which are used for the preparation, heat treatment and melting ofmetals and alloys, and which have been equipped with special plant to enablemanufacturers to carry out on a full manufacturing scale any tests they mayrequire in connection with annealing, carburizing, re-heating and quenching,normalizing, hardening and tempering of fine tools, gauges, cutters, b
. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . THE EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDRY. At the Windsor Street Works of the Gas Department are situated theexperimental foundry and hardening shops, having a floor space of about 1,700square feet, which are used for the preparation, heat treatment and melting ofmetals and alloys, and which have been equipped with special plant to enablemanufacturers to carry out on a full manufacturing scale any tests they mayrequire in connection with annealing, carburizing, re-heating and quenching,normalizing, hardening and tempering of fine tools, gauges, cutters, beds, dies,the heat treatment of high-=peed and alloy steels, annealing of cast iron, and themanufacture of malleable castings, the melting of brass, bronze, gun-metal, whitemetals, aluminium and aluminium alloys. For the hardening and tempering of very large steel dies, beds, tools, cuttersand machine parts, special plant has been installed. Any further particulars will be readily given on application to the Engineerin charge. fSee page 3 of Cover] 9. 10 The Tube Industry. When one comes to look into the matter, tubes now have suchvaried and such general uses that it would be next to impossible forthe urban resident to get on without them. He could not enjoy thatluxurious bath first thing in the morning ; could not have his breakfastcooked by gas or electricity ; could not go off to his business by trainor cycle; could not have his office heated by hot water; could notswitch on his electric light when he wanted to put in a little overtime;could not use either the telegraph or telephone ; could not pay businesscalls by tram-car; and could not use a really up-to-date bedsteadwhen he retired to his well-earned repose. If he is engaged in mercantile affairs on a large scale, his debt tothe tube-makers is so much the more increased. The locomotives thattransport his raw materials and finished manufactures ; the ships thatbear his goods to many lands ; the concerns that supply his fa
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