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SUMMARY |
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Introduction |
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Organisation of the industry |
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Present position of the German glass industry |
2 |
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(a) General |
2 |
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(b) Sheet Window glass |
3 |
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(c) Plate glass |
3 |
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(d) Glass Fibre |
5 |
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(e) Pressed and blown ware |
5 |
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Technical Development |
5 |
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(a) Research Facilities |
5 |
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(b) Fuel |
6 |
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(c) Raw materials |
6 |
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(d) Furnaces |
6 |
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(e) Refractories |
7 |
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(f) Production processes |
7 |
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(g) Grinding and polishing |
9 |
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(h) Auxiliary processes |
9 |
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(i) Warehousing 9 |
9 |
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(j) Quality of products l0 |
10 |
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(k) General factory layout, etc. |
10 |
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Personnel matters |
10 |
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Targets recommended for a further visit |
10 |
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Note on reliability of information received |
11 |
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Use of glass in building |
11 |
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Other products used in building: porous concrete |
11 |
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List of samples obtained |
12 |
C22/3055 |
REPORT I - Deutsche Tafelglas A.G., Head Office and Depot, Fürth. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
13 |
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Work carried out at the Depot |
13 |
C22/1432 |
REPORT II - Deutsche Tafelglas A.G., Witten. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc
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15 |
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Gas supply |
16 |
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Mixing Room |
16 |
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Tank details |
18 |
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Clay Rooms |
20 |
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Warehouse |
21 |
C22/3056 |
REPORT III - Deutsche Tafelglas A.G., Weiden |
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Present position, personnel, etc. |
24 |
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Laboratory |
24 |
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Gas supply |
25 |
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Mixing Room |
25 |
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Tank |
25 |
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Warehouse |
26 |
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Glass Analysis |
27 |
C22/1435 |
REPORT IV - Rheinische Ziehglasfabrik A.G., Porz-Urbach. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
28 |
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General description of plant |
28 |
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Gas supply |
29 |
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Mixing Room |
30 |
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Tanks |
30 |
C22/725 |
REPORT V - Deutsche Libbey-Owens Gesellschaft für Machinelle Glasherstellung A.G., Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
34 |
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Gas supply |
35 |
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Raw Materials |
35 |
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Mixing Room |
35 |
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Tank furnace |
36 |
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Warehouse |
37 |
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Grinding and Polishing |
38 |
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Wages |
38 |
C22/731 |
REPORT VI - Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G., Werk Grünenplan |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
39 |
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Gas supply |
40 |
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Pot furnaces and Casting Hall |
40 |
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Glasshouse pots |
41 |
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Claywork |
42 |
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Fourcault glass tanks |
42 |
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Batch mixing |
44 |
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Watch glasses and pressed lens blanks |
44 |
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Grinding and Polishing |
46 |
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Glass compositions |
46 |
C22/731 |
REPORT VII - Deutsche Spiegelglas A.G., Werk Mitterteich |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc.
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45 |
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Gas supply |
49 |
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Mixing Room |
49 |
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Tanks |
50 |
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Furnace Halls |
51 |
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Pot Rooms |
52 |
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Pot Spectacle Glass |
52 |
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Protective filter glass |
53 |
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Clock and watch glasses |
53 |
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Lens blanks |
54 |
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Bending kilns |
54 |
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Laboratory |
54 |
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Warehouse |
54 |
C22/1434 |
REPORT VIII - Vereinigte Glaswerke, Werk Stolberg. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
55 |
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Gas supply |
56 |
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Rolled and Wired Glass production |
56 |
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Plate glass production |
57 |
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Pot Rooms |
57 |
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Bicheroux Plant and Pot Furnaces |
58 |
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Bevelling and Silvering |
59 |
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Grinding and Polishing |
59 |
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Bending Plant |
59 |
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Warehouse |
59 |
C22/1439 |
REPORT IX - Vereinigte Glaswerke, Werk Herzogenrath. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
60 |
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Glass fibre department |
61 |
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Pot Rooms |
61 |
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Furnace Hall |
61 |
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Gas Producers |
62 |
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Rolling Machine |
62 |
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Rough cast Stock-room |
62 |
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Grinding and Polishing |
62 |
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Bevelling |
63 |
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Toughening department |
63 |
C22/3057 |
REPORT X - Vereinigte Glaswerke, Werk Mannheim - Waldhof. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
64 |
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General description of plant |
65 |
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Furnaces |
65 |
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Batch composition |
65 |
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Glass-making |
66 |
C22/1441 |
REPORT XI - Vereinigte Glaswerke, Sindorf Glaswerk. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
67 |
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Mixing Room |
67 |
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Gas producers |
69 |
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Furnace Hall |
69 |
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E Cullet marbles for fibre production |
70 |
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Pots |
71 |
C22/3058 |
REPORT XII - Bayerische Spiegelglasfabriken Bechmann Kupfer A.G., Head Office and Depot, Fürth. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
73 |
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Quality of Plate glass |
74 |
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Bevelling and Silvering |
74 |
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Other processes, printing on glass, etc. |
75 |
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Samples obtained |
75 |
C22/3059 |
REPORT XIII - Bayerische Spiegelglasfabriken Bechmann Kupfer A.G., Furth-im-Wald. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
76 |
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General description of plant |
76 |
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Gas supply |
77 |
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Mixing Room |
77 |
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Tank furnace |
78 |
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Casting machine |
79 |
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Lehr |
80 |
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Bending kilns |
80 |
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Grinding Shed |
80 |
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Warehouse |
80 |
C22/1433 |
REPORT XIV - Glas und Spiegelmanufaktur A.G., Gelsenkirchen - Schalke |
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Products, present position, personnel etc. |
81 |
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Gas Supply |
81 |
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Mixing Room |
82 |
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Pot Process |
82 |
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Continuous flow tank |
82 |
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Rolling machines |
83 |
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Lehr |
83 |
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Wired Glass Production |
83 |
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Cutting |
84 |
C22/1440 |
REPORT XV - Spielgelglaswerke Germania A.G., Porz-Urbach. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
85 |
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Producer gas plant |
85 |
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Mixing Room |
86 |
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Furnace Hall |
86 |
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Casting Hall |
87 |
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Pot Rooms |
87 |
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Grinding and Polishing |
88 |
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Warehouse |
89 |
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Cullet Tank |
89 |
C22/1436 |
REPORT, XVI - Rheinische Spielgelglasfabrik, Ratingen, Düsseldorf. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
90 |
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Description of plant, processes, etc. |
90 |
C22/3O6O |
REPORT XVII - Glasfabrik Laurenz Lamberts, Holenbrunn, Ober-Pranken, Bavaria. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
91 |
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Description of plant, processes, etc. |
91 |
C22/3O61 |
REPORT XVIII - Glasfabrik G. Lamberts, Waldsassen, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
93 |
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Description of plant, processes, etc. |
93 |
C22/2112 |
REPORT XIX - Glasfaser G.m.b.H., Düsseldorf |
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Comments |
94 |
C22/651 |
REPORT XX - A.G. der Gerresheimer Glashüttenwerke vorm. Ferd. Heye, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
95 |
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General interests of the Gerresheimer Organisation |
96 |
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General description of plant |
97 |
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Gas supply |
97 |
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Mixing room |
98 |
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Container section |
99 |
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Glass brick section |
99 |
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Rolled sheet section |
99 |
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Glass fibre section |
101 |
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Glass compositions |
103 |
C22/3062 |
REPORT XXI - A.G. der Gerresheimer Glashüttenwerke vorm. Ferd Heye, Ettlingen. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
104 |
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Continuous fibre |
105 |
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Staple fibre |
105 |
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Thermal insulating wool |
106 |
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Fabrication |
106 |
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Applications of products |
106 |
C22/3065 |
REPORT XXII - Glasfabrik Wittekind, Minden |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
107 |
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Tank furnace |
108 |
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Batch and glass compositions |
108 |
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Forming machines |
109 |
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Carboys |
109 |
C22/3004 |
REPORT XXIII - Glaswatte Gesellschaft, Bergisch-Gladbach |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
110 |
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Centrifugal machines |
110 |
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Glass composition |
110 |
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Products and fabrication |
110 |
C22/774 |
REPORT XXIV - Oscar Gossler Glasgespinnst Fabrik G.m.b.H., Hamburg-Bergedorf. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
112 |
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Centrifugal process |
113 |
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Continuous fibre spinning process |
114 |
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Making up fibre into fabricated products |
114 |
C22/724 |
REPORT XXV - Deutsche Kap Asbest Werke G.m.b.H., Hamburg-Bergedorf. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
119 |
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Comments |
119 |
C22/3064 |
REPORT XXVI - Glasswolle Kommanditges. W. Schuller u. Co., Coburg. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
120 |
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General description of plant, etc. |
120 |
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Applications |
121 |
C22/1430 |
REPORT XXVII - Glaswerke Ruhr A.G., Essen-Karnap |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
122 |
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General description of plant |
123 |
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Bottle making plant |
123 |
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Tube plant |
124 |
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Dimensions of Banner Tube drawing tank furnace |
124 |
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Glass compositions |
125 |
C22/1639 |
REPORT XXVIII - Osswald und Co., Hamburg. |
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Remarks |
127 |
C22/2619 |
REPORT XXIX - Rohm und Haas, Darmstadt. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
128 |
C22/3065 |
REPORT XXX - Vereinigte Farbenglaswerke A.G., Zwiesel. 129 |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
129 |
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Description of Optical glass casting process |
129 |
C22/731 |
REPORT XXXI - Fredener Glasmanufaktur C. Runge u. Sohn, Klein-Freden. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
131 |
C22/3066 |
REPORT XXXII - Kreinse und Co., Gross-Freden. |
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Products, present position, personnel etc. |
132 |
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REPORT XXXIII - Optical glass processing firms in Fürth, Nürnburg. |
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List of firms |
133 |
C22/199 |
REPORT XXXIV - Deutsche Gold und Silber Anstalt, Frankfurt. |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
134 |
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Production of light-weight building concrete |
134 |
C22/663 |
REPORT XXXV - Badische Verteilungestelle und Ziegelei, Karlsruhe |
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Products, present position, personnel, etc. |
136 |
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Production of roofing and other tiles |
136 |
C22/3068 |
REPORT XXXVI - Technische Hochschule, Karlsruhe. |
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Comments |
137 |
C22/745a |
REPORT XXXVII - Kaiser Wilhelm Institute für Silicatforschung, Berlin-Dahlem. |
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Present position |
138 |
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Activities during war time |
138 |
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Investigations by Dr A. Dietzel and co-workers |
139 |
C22/745 |
REPORT XXXVIII - Interview with Dr Wilhelm Eitel |
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Remarks |
141 |
C22/3069 |
REPORT XXXIX - Interview with Dr H. Maurach |
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Remarks |
142 |
C22/2021 |
REPORT XL - Interview with Dr Gustav Keppeler |
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Remarks |
144 |
C22/1880 |
REPORT XLI - Dr H. H. Franck. |
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Remarks |
145 |
C22/928 |
REPORT XLII - Interview with Dr Erich Schott |
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The Jena research work |
146 |
REPORT XLIII - Collecting centre for Scientists, Heidenheim. |
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Jenaer Glaswerke personnel |
147 |
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University of Jena personnel |
147 |
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Remarks |
148 |
INDEX |
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150 |