Title:KRUPP STEEL AND SPRING PRODUCTION AND FRIEDRICH ALFRED FOUNDRY [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 62
Other titles:KRUPP COLLECTION [Series Title]
Summary: Krupp foundry scenes, spring manufacturing and the Friedrich Alfred Hütte complex at Rheinhausen.
Description: I. Men charge furnaces with fuel. Molten steel is extracted by ladle and poured into small casts to form ingots. Small ingots are hammered to pieces. Furnaces are cleaned. Molten steel in ladle. Worker pushes steel bars on trolley [ca 1930].
II. Manufacture of springs [ca 1920].
III. Views across the Rhine of Krupp's Friedrich Alfred Hütte at Rheinhausen, with paddle barges in the foreground. Views of the foundry complex and of riverside coal unloading wharf. Internal views of steel foundry, with molten steel flowing into ladle, ladle being moved by overhead crane, molten ingots being rolled and being cut when still white hot [ca 1930].
