250 ton Horizontal Shell Drawing Press, for 6" shells, O/No. 8341, c.1938

Order 8341 for the War Office, for Woolwich Arsenal, c.1938

D7338/14/10/3274
Gloucestershire Archives
D7338/14/10/3275
Gloucestershire Archives

With 100 ton x 6′ 6″ stroke pushback rams at 3000 psi working pressure.

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