Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

Jalopies for defense. The press is closing in on this old auto body. Powerful hydraulic bailing presses are used to compress the sheet metal of the auto body into small compact bundles. Discarded automobiles provide an average of more than 1500 pounds apiece of the huge quantities of scrap metal needed for defense production

Jalopies for defense. It won't be an auto body for long now. Here it is being placed in a powerful hydraulic baling press, soon to emerge as a small cube of tightly compressed metal. The steel is bundled in this way not alone to facilitate shipment but also, and more important, to prevent the burning of sheet metal when it is exposed to the terrific heat in an open hearth steel furnace

Jalopies for defense. These cubes of scrap metal were once the bodies of junked automobiles, rotting in ugly auto graveyards from coast to coast. They will now provide some of the millions of tons of scrap steel so badly needed for defense production. They are baled up in this manner to prevent their burning away when they are thrown into the blazing inferno of an open hearth steel furnace. Open hearth furnaces are fed with approximately 50 percent scrap steel

Jalopies for defense. It doesn't look like much, but actually it's 300 pounds of scrap metal. Only a few minutes before it was thrown into the powerful hydraulic baling press it was the body of a discarded automobile. It is now ready for shipment to a steel mill. More than 28,000,000 tons of scrap metal is needed this year for defense production

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 525.

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