Peter A. Brannon created this scrapbook to document a sightseeing trip he made with Clayton Albert, Thomas W. Martin, and Marion Rushton; the group traveled from Claiborne to St. Stephens, Alabama. The scrapbook includes a narrative of the men's...
Damaged cars are in the foreground. A fireman is on his truck in the street. Windows appear to have been blown out of the Liberty Contracting Company across the street.
Employees at work in a Westinghouse plant in Alabama: "After the bulbs are lacquered inside (on the machines at the left), they are automatically fed into the drying oven (right). This is the first and only oven of its kind in use by the company...
"Pistons account for a major percentage of the daily tonnage of parts cast at the new Ford plant from metal delivered in molten form from a nearby reduction plant of Reynolds Metal Company. Here, a 15-station trunnion wheel moves pistons past three...
"The scale passes for shipping only pistons which fall within a 15-gram weight spread. Underweight and overweight parts are routed out of the approved line. The rough machined pistons also are visually checked before shipment to four Ford engine...
"A scoop of metal taken from the small holding furnace (right foreground) is formed into a complex part by the die casting machine in rapid-fire order."