New Britain herald., 1925-06-20
ENGINEERS VISIT
 LARGE INDUSTRIES
See MarVels Of Steel.Makins, Lo.
 ConlotiVe Building, Gun Shops

lnlo CdnnonS ana snok dt tuo ehVuiyi in battle, comprised the extent of three inspection trips made by the New Britain section Of the Ameri- can Society of Mechanical Engineers in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y., yes- terday.
 Yesterdays trip included visit to three large industries, the Ludlum Steel plant, the Delaware and Hud- son railroad shops and tho U. s. arsenal at Watervleit. N. Y.
 Because of the fact that a num- Der of the men found at tho last minute they could not so. the orig inal plan of travelling In Pullman bus was changed and the trip was made in private autos.
 They stayed over night at the Wellington hotel in Albany and left early yesterday morning for Water- vleit where the first stop was made at the headquarters of the Ludlum Steel Co. Here the visiting engineers received a cordial welcome. Officers Of the company greeted them in per- son and all the facilities Of the main offices were turned over to them. They were shown through the "mu- scum" where are exhibited some- thing like so different types of steel and the uses 10 which the different types are put. Then they are d. vded into groups of four each and in charge of officials of the company were escorted through the plant.
 Among the outstanding things of interest to the New Britain men. were the new type of electric fur naces for melting high speed steel and the alloys used in steel produc- ton. They also manifested much in- terest in the rolling mills where red hot billets were rolled out into long. hissing, sizzling wires, through a series of rolls. The making of ham mered steel products under 60 ton automatic hammers, so guaged that they can hammer a piece of steel foot square out Of shape or crack an cgg without crushing it, was scene of interest
 An interesting exhibit which at- tracted much attention and illus trated the difference between two types of steel, showing the tough ness of one type compared to the hardness of another, was steel spike which had been driven by an automatic hammer half way through a heavy steel block, much the same as a nail is driven into a piece of wood.
 The visitors were guests of the Ludlum company officials at lunch con served in the dining room of the main office. Robert McCarty, salesman for the Ludlum con- pany, travelled with the party from New Britain to the plant. Officials of the steel company accompanied their guests through the railroad shops and into the arsenal | Visit D. & H. Shops
 The use of steel in another phase was shown when the delegation was l conducted through the Delaware and Hudson shops by General Man i ager Becker. While there are no new engines built in these shops, 1 old ones are torn down and entirely rebuilt, even to the skeleton frame work, The first thing that attract ed the attention of the New Britain men was big 70-ton locomotive swinging high in the air and car ried across the shop by a travelling crane. Locomotives in all stages of development were inspected. Much interest was shown in the new pol icy of building the cab next to the tender on large locomotives instead of putting it into the center of the engine. as has. been the case. An other new idea which aroused much interest an ddiscussion was that of an auxiliary engine under the tender of a locomotive, giving it consider able increased power on maximum i grades.
 See Big Guns
 Al the Watervleit arsenal the men were taken in tow by Captain Skinner who gave a demonstration of new type anti-aircraft gun, just being developed. They were taken through the large machine shop and shown IA and 16-inch guns, meas. uring over loo feet in length, nearly six feet in diameter and weighing 1S9 tons.
 I.athes, estimated to be about 15t feet long, attracted much attention Three German howitzers, captured during the war, were examined and some smaller and-aircrsft guns were shown and their mechanism explained. .'
 An exhibit Of war relics, dating back 10 handmade cannens used during the Revolutionary war were viewed on the grounds.
 Supper was eaten in Albany and the New Rritainites came back home between 9;3O and il o'clock.
 Among those who were present were Chairman A. H. Scott, A. l. Stowell, w. ". Marshall. Robert g Brown. Hharle. A, Johnson, H. C Barnes. William Wall, Albert F Church. Arno Schubert and Ernest Dechant of New Britain, Reber McCarty of New York city Donalt H. Browne of Bristol and H. L Barnes of Hartford.
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