Fragmentation Plant
Fragmentation Plant
Clip: 425375_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1765
Original Film: 040-082-06
HD: N/A
Location: England
Timecode: 00:10:37 - 00:11:27
"The first of England's four Fragmentation Plants goes into action, reducing old, abandoned automobiles to small pieces of metal scrap in fifteen seconds. It also handles all waste metals like a giant sausage grinder." TLS/LSs metal grinder in a metal reclamation plant (junkyard); large pile of junk metal; a crane's claw drops a car into the grinder. MSs scrap metal rolling over large drum & onto conveyer belt that carries it upward, and then drops it into a waiting train car. A tractor affixed with a magnet lifts metal from a pile, swings right, and then drops it into a train car. TLS crane outfitted with magnets dropping scarp metal into railcar. MS magnet swinging about, picking up scrap, dropping it into car.