From humming tops, trains, and trolleys to mechanical animals on wheels and figures pulling carts, tinplate toys were made in amazing variety. |
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A major producer of electrolytic and hot-dipped tinplate, the Yorkville works also manufactures black plate and terne plate. |
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Coal and coke transformed the industry and a specialization developed in coated steel plate, tinplate, and galvanized sheet. |
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Around the edge of each mask, a strengthening strip of scrap tinplate was fixed by careful hammering. |
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The part of the sole in front of the rabbet mouth was neatly clad with tinplate. |
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On the other hand, the pine, ash, iron, tinplate, metal type, and tools with which we worked at Eastfield seemed very real indeed. |
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Nominal coating thickness for equally coated tinplate range from 0.38 to 1.54 m on each surface. |
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It also makes crown corks for the beverage industry and is a large scale printer of tinplate sheets for other can makers. |
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She was bound from Swansea for St John, New Brunswick, Canada, with a general cargo, including 1300 tons of tinplate and, oddly enough, Christmas puddings and bicycles. |
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The North Dock, built originally for the ships exporting millions of tons of tinplate, have been turned into Millennium Quays, home to a sail training and water sports centre. |
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Over the next century and a half, works were established to process arsenic, zinc and tin and to create tinplate and pottery. |
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From the 1870s onwards, the economy of the town was dominated by the coal mining industry, with only a small tinplate works. |
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The 2006 event occupied the site of the former Felindre tinplate works to the north of the city and featured a strikingly pink main tent. |
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As well as copper and iron, Glamorgan became an important centre for the tinplate industry. |
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Before 1890, Wales was the world's leading producer of tinplate, especially as used for canned foods. |
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Nearly all the tinplate and much of the aluminium produced in the UK are made in Welsh plants. |
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Lionel's first tinplate reproduction of a standard Gauge locomotive was a black 2-4-2 steam engine with three red passenger cars. |
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At Redbrook, copper works were established by 1691, and a century later the village became one of the world's major tinplate manufacturing centres. |
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