Historic film on mass production of guns

I found this interesting and thought others might too. It’s amazing the mass production of the time.
https://youtu.be/c8kiOBgYp8M

Dress codes sure have changed a lot; some of the men in the video were sporting bow ties and neck ties.

I love those old movies, all the workers are wearing ties but also aprons to keep ties out of machinery.

Great video on how the BAR was made. Frank

Loved it! Thanks for posting.

Very interesting

What I liked the most was the end people using trolleys to move around. Mass transit just think of it. I did like the barrel straightening, of coarse. I'll watch it again, as I find all older videos interesting. Thanks for sharing !!!!

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Originally Posted by Teddy (punchie)

What I liked the most was the end people using trolleys to move around. Mass transit just think of it. I did like the barrel straightening, of coarse. I'll watch it again, as I find all older videos interesting. Thanks for sharing !!!!

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I don’t know about other manufacturers, but Pedersoli has a shop tour video and they are more or less straightening there barrels the same way.

That was great! I was surprised at the number of 10 fingered mechanics and machinists, given the complete lack of safety-guards.

The machines were ran off jack shafts and flat belts. Pretty interesting.

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Originally Posted by rintinglen

That was great! I was surprised at the number of 10 fingered mechanics and machinists, given the complete lack of safety-guards.

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And No Safety Glasses!

Thanks Greg

Thanks for posting this.

I recently watched a YouTube on Remington in the 1960s. Loved it !

Interesting video, but everybody seemed to jerk around at lightning speed. I ran it at 1/2 speed, and the movements seemed more normal--still a breakneck production pace. I especially liked the "calibrated eye" barrel straightening.

And to think that machinery was state of the art then. Yet some of hasnt changed much in today's use

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Originally Posted by GregLaROCHE

I found this interesting and thought others might too. It’s amazing the mass production of the time.
https://youtu.be/c8kiOBgYp8M

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Notice the productivity of those Workers, a far cry from what it is today !

Cheers

When I lived in rural northern Indiana I was asked by a fellow collector in another state to go and visit this BAR and take pix and report back to him on possible purchase. It was very cool to handle and photograph this M1918 BAR (with A2 clip guide).

https://images12.fotki.com/v1350/pho...36/bar3-vi.jpg

https://images46.fotki.com/v1642/pho...536/z35-vi.jpg

There was a lot of cleaver jig and fixture design in that clip. Many tracer and panto-graph machines were used also. to an old manufacturing guy it wasn't so much what they were making as it how they were making it.........:lol: