Installed in No.1 (Main) Plant.
For manufacture of solid aluminium extrusions.
Equipped with 150 ton vertical shear, working pressure 3500 psi from a centralised 400 gal capacity air/water hydraulic accumulator station, also supplied by Fielding & Platt.
(The initial erection of this press was undertaken in Bay 3 of Hydraulic 1).
The quality second photograph illustrated was located in 2018 from a batch of early photos, scanned and added to the page.
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