Czech Jewish refugee engineers have given Great Britain a mechanical advantage over Germany in the field of metal manufacturing, Albert B. Cudebec, British engineer of the Loewy Engineering Company, reported at the 61st annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers yesterday.
Cudebec said this advantage was especially true in the advanced process of metal extrusion developed by Czecho-Slovakian engineers in their country and perfected in England. Metal extrusion, as a process of squeezing or squirting metal through a die into a required shape, has hastened the British defense program and has made easier the handling of aluminum and magnesium alloys necessary to modern aircraft production, he said.
“Soon after the British defense program got well under way the metal-extrusion process quickly became so vital to national defense purposes that forty or fifty of these large plants are now in production in Great Britain,” Cudebec said. Before the war there were only five plants in England, he said.
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