"STEEL RHYTHM" 1959 UNITED STEEL COMPANIES UK PROMO FILM TEMPLEBOROUGH MELTING SHOP XD51504
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This color newsreel film from 1959 titled “Steel Rhythm” acted as promotional material for the Steel, Peech, & Tozer branch of the United Steel Companies Limited. The film highlights the continuous cycle of operations consisting of charging, melting, refining, tapering and teaming that took place at the Templeborough Melting Shop and Rolling Mills. Steel, Peech, & Tozer met the steel demand created by WWI with the Templeborough Melting Shop which was the largest melting shop in Europe at the time of its opening in South Yorkshire. During the post-war period, the United Steel Companies Limited forged a fruitful relationship with Wallace Productions who were in charge of producing top-notch advertising material that disseminated knowledge on the industry and proved the company’s social relevance. This particular film featured A.V. Curtice as producer and supervising editor as well as Max Anderson as director and scriptwriter. It is also important to note that prior to mass distribution to the public, the film was screened and approved by the British Board of Film Censors.
Opening credits (0:10). Templeborough and Rotherham Melting Shops in Sheffield (0:38). Steel worker training center (0:49). Melting shop employee amenities (1:12-1:43). Water purification building that purifies water from the River Don (1:59). Summary of factory fuel and resource usage: coal, gas, iron, oil etc. (2:08-2:36). Works Council and Production Committee employee contributions to the greater community (2:41). Beginning of segment discussing steel production at the Templeborough Melting Shop (3:04). Open-hearth furnaces and process of melting down steel (3:22-4:58). Other processes occurring during the time of the melt (5:00). Process of making metal completely molten and then refined (5:29). Maintenance work on furnaces (6:10). End of the melting period (6:27). Refining stage after samples of metal and slag have been taken (7:03). Chemical analysis of molten metals in the laboratory (7:14-8:15). Lime and iron oxide added to molten metal (8:22). Use of a Quantometer for further analysis (8:46). Positioning of steel teeming ladle and various molds (9:19). Temperature taken (9:35). Other teams joining to help in the tapping operation (10:06). Last sample taken before tapping (10:17). Molten steel begins to flow out of the furnace (10:49). Final carbon analysis to know the amount of coal needed (11:08). Addition of alloys to proper specification (11:37). Flow of molten steel from the slag into other ladles (12:02). Dolomite is thrown to create a barrier to prevent further overflowing (12:29). Uphill method of teeming (13:01-14:00). Steel ingots being transported to soaking pits in preparation for the cogging mill (14:09). Cogging mill (14:43). Maintenance and control of heat in soaking pits (15:08). Production specification information passed to the plan office in the cogging mill (16:05). Cogging mill process (16:53). Function of oxyacetylene torches (18:36). Billet mill (18:48). Roughing stands (19:07). Continuous finishing stands (19:34). Cooling beds (20:08). Bar mill where billets go on to the finishing stands (20:25). Oscillating bed or “Dragon’s Teeth” (21:23). Reheated slabs rolled down into strips in another mill (21:41). Steel strip emerges (21:59). Finished steel coil rolls on production belt (22:30). Further processing of rolls in the cold rolling mill (22:34). Further refinements of the steel strip (22:45-23:12). Ingot entering cogging mill (23:15). Heavy forging press (23:52). Team plans how they will forge the shape of their ingot (24:11). Forging processes (24:41). Forging process of wheels (25:39-27:40). Forging of railway tires more specifically (27:43-28:59). Forging of smaller rings (29:03). Hammer forging (30:00). Giving railway axles necessary grain pattern and contours
(34:30). Railroad axles enter heat treatment (31:27). Quenching tank for springs (32:23). Tempering furnace (32:36). Finished product of steel spring (32:43). Another large forging in the heavy press (32:54). Mill workers going home at the end of their shifts (33:07). Examples of steel’s everyday uses and functions i.e. Singer sewing machine and steam train (33:21-34:15). Closing credits (34:16).
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Well, I was born in 1950 and my Dad was a foreman at a Republic Steel mill in Ohio. He took us for a tour when I was a little boy and it really made an impression on me. Flames soaring into the air, molten steel pouring into the ingots. It was deafening. Huge cranes above the whole operation. My mom was going to wear slacks but my dad said she should wear a dress and heels. This was pre-women's lib. As a teenager I worked in the summers at a warehouse that shipped different coils to different companies. You could have them custom made. My Dad was proud of the US steel industry and what it had done in WWII. When the country needed steel they made it with their own hands. He and the whole steel industry were very patriotic.
I did my apprenticeship here from 1979 to 1984, loved these old films I watched during my apprenticeship at Dead Mans hole lane.
These workers were very talented in their field of work, they spent their life learning these obscure skills only to get screwed over in the end.
@@TugIronChief I think he is talking about how most of these guys were laid off as steel production moved overseas
Love these glimpses back in time
The glory of a steel town 💪
I m also from a steel town so feel attached with it.
It's the Indian Iron & Steel Company Limited making steel since 1918.
Same here. Was born and raised two blocks from the Fairbanks Morse foundry.
So is this done in US? Thats freaking awesome and much needed thanks for what you do!
@@deepbludude4697 Yes it's United steel a legendary steel company of US.
what is meant by " gothic bloom " ?
This is the United Steel Companies in the UK, specifically the Templeborough Works of Steel, Peech and Tozer in Rotherham, Yorkshire.
What a brilliant and informative description of how steel works operate.
Thank you for share .
Its amazing seeing the logistics and hard working men in the steel industry of yesteryear. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) would have a jolly good time visiting this industry if operational in this day and age!
as long as the appropriate bribes are paid its all good.
Great upload. These dudes put in a real shift you can see that.
I'm awestruck. No margin of error here or you'd be gone. I get nervous watching this because there is no safety equipment, but I have total respect for these men.
There was some safety equipment, they'd have all had steal toe boots, there was at least some eye protection shown as well in the form of darkened specticals for the man working the furnace to avoid some of the bright light emitted when looking in. Lots of people.
Even with modern PPE if something went really wrong like a ladel falling or a bit bit of hot steel going of course you'd be f'd up still. The big improvements to safety have been increasing handling equipment to physically separate the worker from the risk of being near or manually manipulating dangerous stuff around the steel plant.
Loud, hot, dirty working conditions. No wasted motion, just a smooth, continuous production of steel. I wonder what the average life expectancy of a steel worker was in 1959? Seems like their lives would have been cut short by the working conditions. Danger around every corner. My hat is off to these hard working people.
I went to school at Scunthorpe in the 1950's leaving in 1968. It seemed a regular thing that someone's father had died suddenly in those days and that men started to look really old even in their forties. The majority of work was in the steelworks. The other common ailment was chronic bronchitis, everyone seemed to smoke in the works and cough accordingly. Another thing was few of my school friends had all four Grandparents alive. and reaching 70 years was considered a good age. Many manual workers died around retirement age which was 65yrs for a man.
Safety gear consists of: Corduroy pants, wool sweaters with muted coloured ascots, and some lite neck wear..
You forgot the cute caps.
Isn't it sad how 90% of steel isn't made in England, America, Australia and New Zealand to name a few.... industry which made our countries great has been decimated and we have to rely on one country which doesn't have out best for at heart.....
Very Sad and gonna byte us in the bum here shortly.
You sound like a narrow minded bigot mate. Go sling your imperialist hook
Here I am thinking I'm gonna here a Caribbean band🤣
My man
How does his hover fork lift thing work
open hearth furnaces.... "steel knives and bearskins"....
Back when the amount you consumed was a form of boasting as a company instead of a negative.
While I know absolutely nothing about Templeborough, I believe I can confidently state that its population today is far more diverse compared to 1959.
Imagine the air quality 😳. I wonder what percentage of workers and people living nearby died from lung cancer or some other metastasis…
Such is life, mate.