Coils of wire cool outside the Chosun plant's coiling mill before being cut into reinforcing bars for concrete irrigation installations. In the foreground are replacement rollers for the mill.
Part of the warehouse at the Chosun plant, showing equipment produced there before the Japanese left Korea. At left are the ends of two large ball mills, formerly produced for the mining industry to be used in crushing rock. The two machines in center are 200-horsepower semi-diesel engines used to power fishing boats.
A view of the lower half of a centrifugal water pump in the machine shop of the Chosun plant at Inchon. The pump, with an outlet diameter of 500 millimeters and a capacity of 72 cubic meters of water per hour, is designed for an irrigation project. It is produced from blueprint to completed machine by this company.
Materials for an 80-ton-ore-loading crane, purchased in 1941, lie on a dock near the Daihan plant. The company has materials and plans for building a 50-ton furnace which the crane would service, if and when the furnace and crane got assembled, there is a source of ore, and the power supply is restored.
Materials for an 80-ton-ore-loading crane, purchased in 1941, lie on a dock near the Daihan plant. The company has materials and plans for building a 50-ton furnace which the crane would service, if and when the furnace and crane got assembled, there is a source of ore, and the power supply is restored.
Game time finds moppets in Pusan, despite shortages of food and clothing, much like children anywhere.
Exterior view of the Daihan plant's two rotating furnaces. Ore, limestone, and smokeless coal go in at the right and molten iron comes at left. A plant engineer said the furnaces had a capacity of 300 tons a year.
Interior of the Daihan Heavy Industry Manufacturing Company plant at Inchon, showing the business end of a horizontal, rotating blast furnace built by the Japanese about 1939. This furnace and its twin of German design, were capable of operating 24 hours a day until the discharge end was clogged up. The last time they operated, in August 1945, they went 44 days without a shutdown.
Interior of the Daihan Heavy Industry Manufacturing Company plant at Inchon, showing the business end of a horizontal, rotating blast furnace built by the Japanese about 1939. This furnace and its twin of German design, were capable of operating 24 hours a day until the discharge end was clogged up. The last time they operated, in August 1945, they went 44 days without a shutdown.
Interior of the Daihan Heavy Industry Manufacturing Company plant at Inchon, showing the business end of a horizontal, rotating blast furnace built by the Japanese about 1939. This furnace and its twin of German design, were capable of operating 24 hours a day until the discharge end was clogged up. The last time they operated, in August 1945, they went 44 days without a shutdown.