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How much does the set look like a contemporaneous munition factory?

posted 12 years ago by htroberts
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I'm in the U.S., so we have only seen the first two episodes.

I keep wondering why they would suspend those bomb casings overhead, which made me wonder if that was a realistic practice or made-for-visual-impact-on-TV...

Also:

- how realistic is the depicted manufacturing process--the pouring of liquid explosive is realistic, I think, although it seems like they'd have more training and quality control than the show suggests. I don't know about the thing that looks like a bunch of straw that they put inside.

- would a factory make many types of bombs and shells?

- was the testing process like what's shown in the show? Take a bunch of shells out behind the plant and shoot them?

[–] armstrongwl1 12 years ago

It's really hard to say. Things would be different now, of course, but back then they didn't have the health and safety codes like we do now. Things weren't inventoried well, paperwork got lost, machinery was faulty, and assembly lines were considered top of the line in safety and productivity. So I would think it might not be too far off. And setting off munitions out back? I'd bet money that they did stuff like that. There are Army issued explosives out there from that era that probably walked out of some of those munitions factories and people were told it was used as a test.

[–] tipi-5 12 years ago

The bunches of straw are cordite. It normally looks more like spaghetti, some museums use that in their displays to represent cordite. I think it’s in long thin strips to give it a large surface area and so burn faster when the shell is fired (it's used to fire the shell/bullet rather than in the warhead). If you wiki cordite it shows a similar cutaway shell.

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