STEEL-MAKING

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1922, Page 3

STEEL-MAKING

n|i ■ ■ ■ " 1 — 1 OLD METHODS MODERNISED. Many modern manufacturing processes are based on methods discovered long ago. For instance, an important 'process in the making of high-grade steel, is the heating and quenching in oil. This practice, in a crude form, lias existed for centuries in Japan in connection with the old-time manufacture of sword-blades and armour. This fact was pointed out by Baron Makashima, on c of tho delegation .of Japanese business men which recently visited England, the remark being suggested by watching operations at. the head works of Leyland Motors, Ltd., at Leyland, Lancashire. The Japanese visitors were greatly impressed when studying steel-casting operations by _ the very modern, electric plant installed in Leyland s big foundry at Farrington. They appreciated tho enterprise of tho company in controlling the manufacture of all tho materials that go to the making of the well-known Leyland Motor Lorries, which are shipped all over the world, as worthy representatives of tho highest British manufacturing standards.