FROM COPPER BAR TO COPPER ROD: and the Lubrication Equipment installed at the New Rolling Mill of British Insulated Callendar's Cables Available to Purchase

THE new British Insulated Callender's Cable copper rod rolling mill at Prescot handles nearly a quarter of the world's copper rod production. This fully automatic mill represents the results of combined effort by Brightside Foundry & Engineering Co. Ltd., and the B.I.C.C. engineers. The mill can convert 400 tons of copper bar into rod from 1/4 to 9/16 in. dia. in 1/16 in. steps, per day. A single bar about 4½ in. square x 4 ft. 6 in. long, and weighing between 255 and 275 lb. is reduced to 1,300 ft. of ¼ in. rod in 82 seconds. This is equal to some 23–30 long tons per hour or 2,000 tons per week on two daily 8½ hr. shifts.