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Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Painting on lubricating fluid before cold nosing a rough turned shell. Cold nosing is a process of squeezing the end of a shell together by tremendous pressure
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Credit lineDetroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Painting on lubricating fluid before cold nosing a rough turned shell. Cold nosing is a process of sq. 1943-01-01. Siegel, Arthur S.. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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