. Canadian foundryman (1918). concernwhile the steel plant at Collingwood isworking at present exclusively on theproduction of steel for shells. Afterthe war when the Collingwood plant isturned over to the production of steelfor commercial purposes, it will be anextremely useful adjunct to the com-panys general business. The Colling-wood plant comprises two open hearthfurnaces, giving a total capacity ofsixty to seventy-five tons of steel perday. The electric furnace can also beused to produce steel. At Owen Sound,steel is produced by the Bessemer pro-cess, giving altogether considerablelatitu
. Canadian foundryman (1918). concernwhile the steel plant at Collingwood isworking at present exclusively on theproduction of steel for shells. Afterthe war when the Collingwood plant isturned over to the production of steelfor commercial purposes, it will be anextremely useful adjunct to the com-panys general business. The Colling-wood plant comprises two open hearthfurnaces, giving a total capacity ofsixty to seventy-five tons of steel perday. The electric furnace can also beused to produce steel. At Owen Sound,steel is produced by the Bessemer pro-cess, giving altogether considerablelatitude in the type of steel produced. Owen Sound Plant The head office and plant at OwenSound will be described first, being themainstay of the entire business. It isself-contained, the plant being arrangedand equipped so that production of prac-tically all the companys lines can bedone there. The plant comprises theoffice building, pattern shop, machineshop, grey iron foundry, steel foundry,cleaning rooms, pattern storages, SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF PRESENT-DAY OWEN SOUND PLANT CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN 27 There is also ample yard space for stor-ing raw materials, molding flasks, office building is 30 ft. x 50 ft. andcontains the general, private, and draw-ing offices, the latter being upstairs. The building is of solid brick construc-tion and was erected in 1905. Thedrawing office is equipped with verticaladjustable drawing boards and the vert-ical system of filing drawings is usedtogether with suitable card indexes. Anoverhead bridge proves to be a con-siderable time saver in the usual trafficbetween draughting room and patternshop. The pattern shop is located overa part of the machine shop, and is wellsuited for handling a variety of work,being equipped to turn out patterns forheavy machinery, more particularlylarge propellers, heavy gears, and waterturbines. The machine shop is 140 feet long by
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