Ammunition Works at Northfleet - Bullet-Casting, 1854. Kent factory of Schlesinger & Wells during the Crimean War - '...extensive contract for the supply of ball cartridges to the Turkish sounds almost like a joke to say that a contractor should undertake to manufacture, , in five months, thirty-five million ball the furnaces, 200 pigs of lead (100 ) are daily used, and transformed into moulds, into which the molten lead is poured, when the mould opens, the bullets drop to the ground in
Ammunition Works at Northfleet - Bullet-Casting, 1854. Kent factory of Schlesinger & Wells during the Crimean War - '...extensive contract for the supply of ball cartridges to the Turkish sounds almost like a joke to say that a contractor should undertake to manufacture, , in five months, thirty-five million ball the furnaces, 200 pigs of lead (100 ) are daily used, and transformed into moulds, into which the molten lead is poured, when the mould opens, the bullets drop to the ground in of boys are ever busily employed in carrying these strings of bullets to the other part of the room, where sixty other boys are seated , for disencumbering the bullets of that spray of lead by which, on issuing from the moulds, they are still attached '. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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